2.15.18 Thursday Training

Good afternoon! 

11:30 - 2,250 yards, with scaling tempo intervals being the main set. I hit all my times, so that was nice. 

Of course, it's terrible that our schools are now a place of fear. Our society is one in which violence and death are glorified. Something has to change. 

Have a good day, and be safe.

Hey BT!

5:30 am:  60 minute run. I am not sure if this was a Z2 run or a Z3 run.  Going off my Time Trial in January this run was 100% in the Z2 HR zone and 100% in the Z3 running pace zone. 

12:15 pm: 30 minute swim.  Lots of 50's and 100's with a few 200's.

Have a great work out day.

P.S.  I didn't hear anything about the Florida school shooting until my wife asked me what I heard about it last night. She had to fill me in on things.  It made me feel sick.  I don't like to hear details of violence or crimes which is why I don't watch rated R or even most PG 13 media.  That is also part of the reason that for the past few months I made it a point to only listen to the news reports on the way to work on Mondays and then keep them turned off for the rest of the week.  They rehash the same stories all week so I figure I don't miss too much but don't have to dwell on the negativity in the word all week that way.  Yes, this has become common.  There was a lady in my Marathon training group 7-8 years ago when I lived in Tulsa that was an English teacher in a Tulsa Public school.  There was a spree of armed home invasions and police finally caught the guys and they turned out to be some of her students. She made it very clear that talking about the guys that were breaking into peoples homes and robbing them at gun point was NOT a topic that they could discuss in her class room.  The students all complained and came to the defense of the guys that were caught saying that they were their class mates and they should be trying to help them through their troubles not turn their back to them.  Pretty scary huhh? They even went as far as saying the teacher would probably do the same things if in their circumstances if she needed money and didn't have it (as if teachers are rich and high school kids can't get a job is guess)? I don't envy teachers.  My prayers are with you. 

So... back to focusing on positive things for the rest of the week.