Thursday, January 27, 2011

Last First (Full) Week of the Last Semester of My College Career

Technically, tomorrow is the last day of the first full week, but it's a 50 minute discussion, so I'm not too worried about it.  I'm taking a pretty full schedule this semester of 16 credits:

Monday:
11 am-11:50 am/Adventure Games

Tuesday/Thursday:
9:30 am-10:50 am/Archeology of CW and Tidewater
11 am-12:20 pm/Sexuality in America
12:30 pm-1:50 pm/American Popular Music
3 pm-5:20 pm/Intermediate Acting

Wednesday:
9 am-9:50 am/ American Popular Music
11-11:50/Adventure Games

Friday:
11-11:50/Sexuality in America Discussion

Being a transfer student, I lost a few credits, and in order to graduate on time, I need to take 16 credits this semester.  Obviously, none of these are government classes, due to the fact that I finished my government requirements last semester (yay!).  This week, I went to ALL of my classes.  That's right, ALL of them. And I have early classes.  This may not be a big deal to some people, but I am not a go to class person or a get up early person.

While I usually work out on a regular basis (at least 4 times a week), I have been going to the gym in the morning and going everyday.  I've already taken two Body Pump classes this week!  I'm also going to start working with a person trainer to achieve my goals of strength building and also, try and build endurance to run the Monument Avenue 10k on April 2nd at a 10:30 min/mile pace or below.  My right knee has been bothering me a bit, so I'm definitely trying to take it easy, and might even go to a sports medicine doctor to just make sure it's nothing big.  It started bothering me last spring, but now it makes more of a clicking/popping noise when I bend it and isn't the same pain as before.  Do any of you have knee problems?  How do you work out, but prevent further injury?

1 comment:

  1. Hey Paula! I just saw you had a blog from your facebook status. About your knee problems - I work at a local running shop in Charlottesville and a lot of people having knee problems are usually in the wrong shoes. Are you running as well as doing stationary machinery? Or only one or the other? Anyway - I would look at going to a running shop that does specialized gait analysis's. I've seen a lot of different injuries from different activities. Let me know if you are still having problems and have questions!

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