Week 5, Day 2

Today's lesson continued the concept of pacing ourselves while running.  We talked about strategies for pacing themselves on race day, even though they'll be excited and want to run fast from the start.   To reinforce this idea, the girls were put in pairs to run two laps.  On each lap one of the girls was to talk and tell stories to the other.  The idea being that if they can still talk, they are running at a good even pace.  All the girls said they were able to run and talk the entire lap.

After these two laps, some stretches, and inchworms, we did sprints!  The goal of this workout was to show the girls that they can be uncomfortable for a few seconds and it's OK.   The girls did about 6 sprints each, and then checked their heart rate to see how fast it was beating.

For our final activity, the girls did a journal activity to show themselves doing their favorite physical activity.

We have just one more week of lessons, we'll wind things down and prepare for the big race next week!