Day 189 - Running Out Of Steam

Thursday October 22nd

Definitely flagging today with the onset of a cold and the thought of three more lessons on Friday. Thursday is an odd day as I only have one lesson and yet the day gets away from me and I never manage to get any of the Friday lessons planned before I go home. This leaves me a mountain of work to do on Thursday night when I am meant to be training with WADAC.

So I get home feeling tired and a little under the weather, crawl up to bed and spend the next 5 hours sweating over 3 lesson plans for Friday. Worse day so far without question BUT more driven by fatigue and poor planning than anything else. Got it done and fell into an uneasy sleep

Day 180 - Treasure Hunt

Tuesday October 13th

Busy day today but prospect of a day at University to look forward to tomorrow so can enjoy it.

Had a good session with BYS and discussed my GTP assignment. This requires a 3,000 word paper on exploring an issue or opportunity in education. She rejected my first few ideas as being too philosophical and impossible to test or apply simply in the classroom. I think I have a good title with some excellent buzz words incorporated.

Had 10.2.2 in the computer room today and set them a task to plot Olympic medals on an Excel scatter graph. It ended up working very well and while very warm in the room, we almost finished on time. I followed that with a 7.2.1 Treasure Hunt around the corridors of Kings. I briefed them and sent them on their way only to find out that the Head and her team were walking the corridors. Fortunately they were all well behaved.

Ted had a Cup game for the school and won. What a contrast with his club team. He is now a regular starter so very proud of him for that. I went off for some hill work and mile repeats with WADAC. Hills felt good, miles less so

Day 159 - Pros v Joes

Tuesday September 22nd

What comes after pride? Not such a great day today as I didn't connect with the 10.2.2 class I had to the extent I thought I would. It wasn't bad but I let them off the hook a bit on delivering against the task I had set and not sure they learnt anything. 65 minutes just flies by.

Went to my first track coaching session for WADAC and finally got to experience some proper training. Other than screwing up the various sets I felt good and my pace was quick. What a difference a track makes after weeks of road and track. The spring was extraordinary and I felt like I was going fast. Clocked 5:53 mile without pushing it so will definitely attempt a time trial soon.