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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Respect the Marathon Please



It’s been quite some time since my last post, mostly that’s contributed to me not being acclimated to this semester’s schedule yet.  I have been extremely busy with my classes and this being my last semester at the community college before I transfer to West Chester (hopefully that is, being I have not heard back from them…), the classes I’m taking are specific.  This means I don’t have a choice of when or even where I take these last four classes.  “Where” is what inspired me to post tonight. 

One of the classes I must take is only available at the Perkasie campus and only on Wednesday nights.  I have found this class very enjoyable and it’s partly hands on, so I love that aspect of this particular class.  The instructor is really good at what she does and when it comes to education she really seems to know her stuff.  I really feel that there is a lot that I can learn from this person, but not tonight…

Just to make this clearer and possibly more fun, even though when this took place I could barely contain myself, I will put the situation in a play format.

Setting: Classroom

Topic: Putting things into perspective for young children such as the number 100 by showing the children 100 items (pennies, lollipops, kick balls, etc.).

Random student:  Can you give another example for this?

Instructor:  Okay, take the Boston Marathon for instance; I’m not sure how many miles it is but…

CT (Excited, but sort of annoyed that this is the example being used when the distance is not known): 26.2 miles!

Instructor: Oh, you have run the Boston Marathon!?

CT (Proudly):  Yes!  I have run a total of 9 marathons.

Instructor: That’s great!  Back to the example, the Boston Marathon is 26 miles.

CT: .2 miles

Instructor: Excuse me?

CT: A marathon is 26.2 miles.

Instructor: I’m training for my first marathon, but I don’t think my marathon is that many miles.

CT:  Well, you’re not doing a marathon than.

Instructor: I am doing a marathon it just isn’t that many miles.

CT:  Well, if it’s a marathon you will be running 26.2 miles.

Instructor:  Okay let’s get back to the example shall we.  If you wanted to put the distance of a marathon 
into perspective for your students, you would take them to a track and after they run one lap you would tell them that they need to run at least 49 more laps to equal the distance of a marathon.

CT:  They would have to run a total of 105 laps roughly on a standard 400 meter track.

Instructor:  Oh would you look at the time.

THE END!

As a runner this can become tiresome to explain to non-runners.  Without a doubt if the word gets out that I ran a marathon over the weekend, there will be at least one person that will come up to me and say something similar to “I heard you ran a marathon this weekend; How far was this marathon?”  And don’t get me started on the people who think that I have done the Hawaii Ironman because I have done a triathlon!

Till we run into each other again…

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