Again, now that I think about it.
Today, per my training schedule, I was supposed to run a 10K race. I quite honestly don't feel any more compelled to run a 10K road race than I do 5K road race, so, needless to say, I just mapped out my own course, tacked some warm-up distance on to the beginning, and timed myself going at what I figured might be my 10K pace, which translated to what I though I could sustain on this disgustingly humid day. I liked my course quite a bit, actually; I made pretty good use of hills and had only one mile long stretch of fairly flat going. But it was really no fun; I probably started a bit fast and the heat sucked the life out of me. (And this was very early in the am.) I am starting to wonder if this weather is going to break before the race, and decided on the fly that if it doesn't, my goal will just be to finish the race, as I won't do anyone much good winding up a sodden heap on some street in Philadelphia, in the name of an arbitrarily set goal.
Which is really not what I want; I WANT six plus weeks of cooler weather and a race time start temperature of 60 at most. But I'm not exactly batting 1.000 in terms of things I want these days, weather-wise, so it'll be what it'll be.
Yesterday the dojo had its first ever black belt and instructor's retreat. We went to an off-site location, a hospital wellness center. (Incidentally, I had no idea hospitals now had boutique-y looking places that offered spa days that included botox and other a la cart cosmetic procedures, along with the garden variety massages and facials. I don't know why that surprised me, but it did.) Sensei brought in an outside instructor, a guy with some really impressive credentials - black belts in at least two forms of jiu jitsu, plus escrima, plus something else. He teaches weapons disarming tactics to police officers, so guess what we got to do? It was something completely different and had that definite cool factor, but it also brought in a lot of familiar moves and tactics, so it was stuff we could work with right away. Afterwards we hit the pool and spa pool. Nice day, overall.
I've taken a couple days' mental rest from the grad school thing, but I'm starting to ramp my brain back up again. One thing I did find out is that my alma mater has changed the cirriculum for my degree, and in fact no longer offers the physics course I took way back when - which means I have no course description with which to plead my case to prospective schools requiring a physics course with laboratory - which is to say, all of them. I'm stifling a reflexive urge to sign up for a physics course RIGHT NOW since I do have time before I get on with the application shit. In the mean time, it seems I have a lot more research to do on PT schools; the lack of early specialization has been bothering me a bit, I suppose because I've always known where I would want to go with this (the athletic training/rehab end of things). I need to do some researching and reading, and hunt down some more people to talk to in the near future. I've waited a very long time to finally do this; there's no point in hurrying things now and going off in the wrong direction.
My brother raced the Steelman Triathlon yesterday - I think this was in the Philly area - was that connected to the race you were going to do?
ReplyDeleteI think it's best to take your time on the grad school thing, but like you, I'd probably have a Physics course lined up and ready to jump on. Is it something you can possibly do online?
Oh yuck, what a gnarly day for a tri!
ReplyDeleteAs for the 10K - I actually hadn't entered one. What I meant by "supposed to" was, my schedule called for one. I don't like short races (and to me, 10K is a short race) so I had always planned to do it the way I did it.
I have thought about taking physics online, but the key thing they're after is the lab, and I don't know how you'd do lab work without a lab. Maybe they do have an option where you can do the class hours online, and the lab stuff real time... that might be interesting.