During this year of P.E, I was able to have a lot of fun and even pull my fitness level up more. My fitness scores I guess you would say have gone up, and I am able to endure running for a longer period of time. I was aiming to bring my fitness up this year, which I've been able to do with the help of the Beep Test, Pond Run and the Community Run mostly. I admit I do have a bit of a hard time keeping up with my really low fitness level, but I have some health related issues that make it harder for me to keep/get my fitness up. I have low iron levels, which run in the females of my family, and I injured my back when I was younger, so I get back pain and cramps a bit easily. But, despite that, I am able to keep myself going through fitness, which for me is actually an improvement from over the years.
At first I didn't know anyone and was pretty shy and self-conscious about what I did and said, which lead to me not giving my all during fitness. Slowly I made some friends and got to know the people in our class, which with that I was able to come out of my hard shell of hiding and be myself. I started giving my all during every class, well almost every class. I started trying to motivate others (And maybe I sounded kinda creepy but hey I was trying) which I'm not too sure worked at all. I always tried to keep a positive attitude and get a positive, hard working vibe in during the fitness days, but I don't think that worked well for me either, but it did benefit me. Overall, I'm glad I had who I had in my class, because they were the ones to help me out of my little self-conscious turtle shell.
Also, during first semester I didn't have any other activities I did outside of school or in school that would help me keep my healthier life style. So, during that time I tried harder to stick to more healthy food and not spend ALL day on my electronics. I still don't have any sports or teams outside school, but I do enjoy dancing as a past-time 〜( ̄▽ ̄〜) (〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜 ┗(^0^)┓┏(^0^)┛. So, I decided to take dance for second semester. Then, I found it a bit better to help with keeping the healthier life style I gained. I plan now to continue dancing more often to keep up with my fitness so I'm not back down to not being able to run once I reach the school year next year. Though, with two siblings, who knows how my fitness will be like once school starts again? Could be better, could be worse. We'll just have to find that out in September (⌒▽⌒)☆.
Now, during fitness, I gave my all. I wasn't very good with the activities that involved long periods of running. That has always been my weakness. We are told we need to pace ourselves in order to improve our times or amount of laps or whatever we are aiming for, but I wasn't good at pacing myself. In some odd way, I guess you can say I just don't know how to pace myself. I would always go too quickly during the first bit then gradually become slower and slower until my mental state pulled me down and out and I would start walking. This was a big problem for me especially during the 30 Minute Run and the Community Run. Now, I liked the Community Run because I got to go out and see scenery and run through different areas, even though I could easily get lost (My bad sense of direction). But, I still enjoyed it. It was like a refreshing morning run, I guess XD. But, I didn't enjoy the pond run. The pond run was constant running in a circle around the same pond, which I find boring and easily tiring. But despite that, I did encourage myself to keep going a bit longer each time.
Over this year-long course, we were also had these blogs (In which I happen to be writing a post on right now XD) and we had to update them with pictures of us doing fitness, showing leadership, having a healthy diet or such other things to show you kept up a healthy life. I can admit I didn't do that on my own blog (Which you can well see through looking at my total of 6, soon to be 7 posts.). Most digital evidence of myself was posted onto Kavita's blog (My friend), and I know excuses won't make anything better, so I won't pull any. I wish I could have been able to at least have posted one or two items of evidence, but well, I didn't. And we won't go into why, because there's no point in it. End of story, I just didn't get any evidence.
So, my post is titled 'I Reached One Of My Goals~!' because I was actually able to reach a part of one of my goals.I was able to become more fit. Now, that's a good thing for me to at least know I have improved, but I still have more goals of course. Though I may not have been very fit or good at fitness, I still made it, and I'm proud of that. 。◕‿◕。
Maya thank you for your honesty and effort. I think your "less excuses" has become evident and a source of motivation for others... that is leadership too. I love seeing your red face after fitness and I encourage you to keep dancing and pushing into the zone of being uncomfortable during PE. Your body can do things you can't even imagine when it is consistently trained. I hope the more confident and active you sticks around for PE 10. Have a nice summer. PS Still need a letter grade?
ReplyDeleteOh letter grade I remember I forgot that. I'm just gonna say low B.
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