{"id":1664,"date":"2015-06-20T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2015-06-20T13:24:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T17:24:28","slug":"marathon-training-starts-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Training Starts Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

June is a bit of a write off in terms of running for me. \u00a0As a teacher it is my busiest month and my most exhausting. \u00a0There are report cards to write, a graduation to plan, year end field trips to attend, and lots of organization and clean-up to complete. \u00a0I am certainly not complaining, since I am now heading into what I hope will be a wonderful, relaxing summer holiday. \u00a0It won’t all be rest and relaxation though, since in a week I should be starting marathon training in preparation for the Hamilton Road2Hope Marathon on November 1st. \u00a0For the last four weeks I have only run when I wanted too and haven’t even bothered recording times or distances. \u00a0I know I have lost much of my endurance over the month but past experience has told me that with work it comes back. \u00a0Most of my running was done in orienteering events or on a couple of trail runs. \u00a0The fact is I quite enjoyed this more relaxed version of running but I think I am ready to start getting serious again. \u00a0This week I will start making a training schedule, which I already know is going to contain 2 very different runs for me each week, but more on that in another post.<\/p>\n

One thing I will need to organize is my running playlist. \u00a0I have barely used my ipod this month so it will be nice to get back to listening to my favourite music. \u00a0One artist who is always on my playlist is Canadian singer David Usher. \u00a0Whether singing solo or with the band Moist, his music somehow always manages to evoke emotions in me that sometimes I can’t even name. \u00a0I do know that now, however, his song St. Lawrence River<\/a>, one of my favourite songs of any<\/em> artist, will most likely bring tears to my eyes. \u00a0Yesterday my grade six class, knowing how much I loved the song, rewrote the lyrics for me. \u00a0At the beginning of the school year we spent time\u00a0studying poetry. \u00a0It was a subject I had only meant to touch upon until I discovered that my class – all boys – had a passion for poetry. \u00a0They were entranced with the work of Edgar Allen Poe and they passionately wrote their own poetry. \u00a0They decided to bring the school year full circle by putting words to the tune of St. Lawrence River. \u00a0I am copying their words here, mostly for selfish reasons; I will know where to find them when I need to remind myself that in teaching we have the opportunity to open our kids up to endless possibilities and hopefully have at least a tiny influence on the young adults they will become.<\/p>\n

Lyrics by my 2015 Graduating Class, inspired by David Usher’s St. Lawrence River<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poetry aplenty<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Your mind can roam\u00a0boundless.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A picture is formed from the verses on paper<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

where words harmonize,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

unearth all the words that rhyme all together<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

you make it so fun to learn here.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Caught in the confusion and doubt of the math<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

you helped it make sense,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I was fumbling through class<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

like a child in the dark<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

when our problems all come<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I devour your kindness<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

and the wisdom and knowledge you teach us<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

in our class.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

And I never thought a test could be so fun.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s so nice,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

to know there’s someone there to help us out<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

when it’s hard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So we all want to thank you.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So if you happen to see me out on the roads or trails with tears streaming down my cheeks, you know what song I will be listening to, hearing it with words meant for me.<\/p>\n

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June is a bit of a write off in terms of running for me. \u00a0As a teacher it is my busiest month and my most exhausting. \u00a0There are report cards to write, a graduation to plan, year end field trips to attend, and lots of organization and clean-up to complete. \u00a0I am certainly not complaining, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-qQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}