Tailing along

We went out this morning for some retail therapy. I have to clarify that my retail therapy role is synonymous with that of "clothing rail" - simply hold up the clothes by the hangers while someone else does her mixing and matching, colour co-ordinating etc. Me? I'm colour-blind, so I tend to opt for black trousers. Any shirt goes with black. Easy. Occasionally during retail therapy I wear a "banker" hat too.

Did 4 miles yesterday; 8 minutes per mile. I wanted to do 5, possibly 7, but I hadn't eaten properly and I was too hot. It was a balmy 60 degrees and I should have gone in my shorts, but regrettably opted for the jogging bottoms because I was too shy to let anyone see my matchstick legs.

Mainly hourly pressups in the afternoon today. I will have to do more stretching and ab work; I'm really feeling the tightness in my legs and the looseness around my stomach. If only it were the other way around!

I have been toying with the idea of returning to classroom teaching - proper teaching, some might say - although if I ever do it will be with primary schools and little kids, so I have been reading up on the primary curriculum and downloading lesson plans and all. The specific obstacles to that are too long-winded to mention here and best for another time. One of the schools where I teach music at has a vacancy next year - well, the class music teacher herself is leaving - so I might make a few enquiries there.

School starts tomorrow. Yippee! TriSaraTops and Running Rabbit might think I'm nuts, but I can't wait to get back to school. I feel guilty when I don't do any work. Another reason why I probably should go back to classroom teaching, and face the daily stress, so holidays could be appreciated a bit more.

Happy training, everyone! It's crunch time for me.