So I did the 5K race last Saturday....

and it was an absolute blast. It was a sunny, chilly morning. The race started in the neighborhood next to the middle school. About four hundred or so kids and adults did the 1 mile fun run, so I stood next to the finish and watched for Lee & the boys, and cheered on the other runners. The 5K started shortly after, and because the race start was on a residential street, we runners were kind of packed in at the start, but once I got around the crowd, I felt awesome and had tons of energy. I never felt winded or like I needed to stop, and I wound up finishing in 27 minutes. The ING Marathon came through Decatur this morning....made me think about the possibility of training for the half-marathon...

In yoga news, I'm still dealing with right shoulder pain, but have gotten quite good at jumping out of bakasana. Marty the instructor usually gives us five minutes or so in the middle of class to work on bakasana and then headstand, so I practice it four or five times each class.

In other non-physical news, I'm still working...it's about twelve hours a week...it's suprisingly fun and I hope I can keep on indefinitely....I guess I need to make myself indispensable!

Michael has a research project for his his gifted class and his topic is "how does the universe expand?" I had a conference w/the gifted teacher last week and she said she tried to steer him away from that topic - since none of us knows anything about the topic and therefore can't really help him organize his material - but he insisted. So far getting him to do the research has been like pulling teeth. Not sure what form the final project is going to take - powerpoint, perhaps. He's interested in the topic, but not at all interested in putting it into any kind of report or presentation. Is this what it's going to be like for the rest of his school years, or is this just because this is the first real research project he's ever done? I have to keep reminding myself that he's only ten years old.