Getting Buff! May 2022 Challenge To Keep Moving Weeks 18-21

[SandyO]

Originally Posted by buffmama

Sandy - How as the Squat Marathon? I looked at that this AM and chickened out rationalizing that I needed to get cardio in (I do).

I LOVED it. I plan to revisit this to see if I can go heavier after Caroline's FUEL Series. I am looking forward to his Lunge Marathon next week. This week has been tough with the HIIT workouts, but I'm loving them. I needed some good sweaty heart pounding workouts.

[Vantreesta]

Today I went for a run. It was supposed to be for the Hot Chocolate virtual 5k I have to complete by the 1st but it didn't end up that way. For various reasons that include heat and sunshine I only managed to run 2.39 mi with my run intervals getting shorter and shorter! I finally gave up, completed the run workout and started a walk one and slowly walked the remaining .75 mi back home. I'm choosing to celebrate that I got out and did it and not beat myself up for not meeting my goal. I stretched about 10 min after I cooled off some and showered.

If I can't get a 5k in before the 1st I'll just have to use the slow time from the race I did with my friend.

[buffmama]

Sandy you encouraged me to add some weight to my lifts - in 1 pound increments! So yes Vannie, every little counts in my book.

[Vantreesta]

I'm notorious for being hard on myself so I'm trying to be more forgiving of my unsuccesses!

[Helen]

Sorry for being so MIA. Going to address some of the upthread posts.

Originally Posted by buffmama

Helen - Why did the teachers strike? What was the result of the strike?

A huge study was done, and showed that:
• our wages had not increased comparably to other professions requiring similar level qualifications
• we work, on average, 55 hrs/week (but only supposed to be paid for 35)
• administrative tasks have skyrocketed for accountability purposes in the past decade.
The study recommended:
• a 10-15% pay rise
• reduction of 2 hrs/week of face-to-face teaching, so we can get that extra admin done

State government offered 2% pay rise + 0.5% rise in superannuation - that doesn't even keep up with inflation!
They offered NO additional time off classes.

There are teacher shortages & especially maths-trained casuals are hard to come by, and many maths teachers have converted from another subject area - often PE, so they're not that good at maths (mostly).
Result? Nothing, so far.
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Thank you all for the birthday wishes! Yes, it was lovely for Bridget to surprise me - it's almost a 3-hour journey to come up here from Sydney.
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The farm is doing really well with the wet weather pattern. When we have a soggy summer, the crops out west give us a good year.
It's only crops as we don't live there. DH hit 65 and realised it's only 5 years until he's 70, so he'd best get a move on making the house MUCH nicer. It wasn't nice at ALL when it first came to us (in DH's family for 100 yrs).
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My Cathe Chrono Mission
It ground to a halt. The next one to do was one of the Hardcore Extremes, and I started it, but lasted 30min. It was just too hard.
My fitness level wasn't up to it. Having a schedule of 'every 2nd day' meant bunching easier things (abs + stretch) in one day, or doing days in a row - that allowed me to be ABLE to procrastinate, and kid myself that I could still reach the goal (60th birthday).
So... I've restarted, and due to the tighter time-frame, technically, it's one every 1.435 days (yeah, I'm mathsy), but essentially every day, which gives room for LIFE (but NO room to stall due to dread).