When the body speaks!

Day 3 of 40

Today I started my Spring semester at George Mason University.  I started by walking from the Patriot Center parking lot to my office, an easy 13 minute walk while the winds seemed to cut slits into my cheeks.  Getting in my office and immediately printing off syllabi, I was off to this class the to that then to the other.  I proudly announced to my students that I was in my 20th year of teaching, I scrambled from class to class, met 40 Quantitative Methods students, 93 Calculus II students and 15 Discrete Math II students.   It was very busy but a very good day and well by 4pm my knees were screaming and my left heal was throbbing not to mention the toe that was so unhappily in weather appropriate Timberlands all day.  So it was a good work day but clearly my body was letting me know I'd been off a month and a day too long.  So I hobbled back down to my car at the Patriot Center, this time it took me more than 13 minutes and then I headed home.  I was in just after 7pm in time for  yet another thing I had to do at 8pm, finally after that getting kids to bed for school tomorrow.  So here it is after 10pm and I definitely feel I'm way past my bedtime but I have yet to workout today.  I know I said I would and I'm not making any excuses, I am merely adjusting and counting today as my rest day.  Tomorrow I will exercise before I start my crazy day, so with that said time to call it a night!

Listening to my body,

Lynnell

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.  The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison