I’ve had a pretty busy week, despite being ‘out of work’ for the first week of summer. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have master’s swim practice and then go straight to coach the high school cross country team. We met at Athens Monday and Friday, but on Wednesday we ran at Umstead. It was nice to be on the trails for a longer run. So pretty much I get up at 5:10 on all those mornings, get my ass handed to me in the pool… then go run with the cross country kids… and eat a huge breakfast when I get home!

Today, some of the cross country runners got in the pool right after our run for a short swim. We’re really lucky at Athens to have the Lake Johnson Pool (part of the Raleigh Parks & Rec) right at our stadium. So it’s right there, and very convenient. A lot of the kids came over to swim, which was cool. I think it’ll really help with their running. We did some relays and stuff, so everyone would be able to join in and not feel like they had to be great swimmers.

Needless to say, my arms feel like they are going to fall off at any moment now that I have done two swims already today.

I had two workshops this week too. Tuesday was “Passive-Aggressive Student,” put on by the Behavior Specialist team from Wake County Schools Central Office. It was very informative, and I really learned a lot from it. Thursday, I had an “IEP Development” workshop over at Central Office put on by the Legal & Compliance crew. This was also a really great workshop. I was really impressed with how well they did covering the legal issues of creating compliant Individual Education Programs (IEP), and the really cool thing is that they put the whole workshop on blackboard (which is an online access module). This action is nice so that people can go through the information at their own pace, and at home (or anywhere) at their own convenience. I’m really glad I attended this workshop because some new changes to IDEA 2004 has effected the way that IEPs should be written.

I got up early both of these mornings to run at Umstead with Sheldon. He really likes to go run with me in the forest.

I was going to go do the Tour de Kale tomorrow morning, but decided to opt out of that. The drive is pretty far, and we’d have to get up really, really early to get there on time. I’m going to do a tri workout with Alicia instead down at Harris Lake Park. The Triangle Triathlon has been moved down there this year, and people are getting together to look at the course. I’m not doing the race because Iron Mountain is the same day.

Awh well… the woods are my home anyways…