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Thursday - Course Navette time!!

{ 19:39, Thursday 16 November 2006 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Today was the first day of the PE Evaluation (PE = Physical Education).
Today we had to do the course navette, and next week it will be coordination.

Course Navette (in Spanish often pronounces cur-navel, lol) is French and means Race Navette?

Anyway, although it may not look it, it is quite a tough exercise, but I am not bad of it. It consists on running 20 metres over and over. You start behind one line, and they play the course navette tape (AKA Music from Hell!) and you must get to the other line, 20 metres away, before the tape emits the beep. The course navette is divided into "periods", each one of 8 lengths of 20 metres, and after every period, you have less time to go from one line to the other, so you must go faster. In the first period you have 10 seconds, and you can go walking, but afterwards it gets pretty tiring, and you have about 6 seconds to get from one side to the other.

Anyway, when we got to San Pablo (where our PE exams take place, and where we do PE every Thursday afternoon) I rushed to the changing rooms, because I needed the loo, and I know SOME people like to spend the whole time in the loo. I then got changed quickly, and dashed off lugging my bag to the underground football "pitch". While we waited for the teacher, I and my great friend Carmen (hehe) decided to warm up together.

After doing the normal ankle (yesterday when I was going down the stairs I landed on my ankle, so it hurt a little bit, but I don't think I had got to sprain it, but sometimes I could feel it) exercise, and all the other warm up exercises for our muscles to be "in shape", Carmen said we had to find a way to make our pulsations (heartbeats) go down, so I suggested lying down and putting your feet on the wall, which I find relaxing, so we did that.

A few people found this strange, and jumped over us, and then asked what we were doing. When we explained the purpose of the activity nearly the whole class began copying us, because they know we can run a lot, and they thought it might help them too. Anyway, the teacher came in and found one or two people jogging, and a long line of kids with their feet on the wall, and too wondered what we were doing.

He set out some cones seperating the 20m course navette distance, and asked those who wanted to voluntarily do the course navette first (we do it in two turns) were to stay on the line, and the rest were to watch. Quite a few people stayed doing it because they wanted to be "next to me and Carmen" and follow our rhythm, and do well. I said I did not mind as long as they didn't get in my way. :)

So, pretty soon, the radio (with the tape inside) was turned on, and on came the growly deep voice:
"Cuatro, tres, dos, uno, beeeeep" (Four, three, two, one, beeeep)
We all started chugging, slow as could be towards the other line.
Beeeeep
"Comienzo del primer periodo" (Beginning of the first period)
Beeeeep
Beeeeep
Beeeeep
Beeeeep "Mitad del primer período"
Beeeeep
Beeeeep
Beeeeep
Beeeeep "Final del segundo periodo (??)"
Everytime you go up a "period", the beeep gets somewhat acuter, so the first period sounds a bit like a fart, and then the highest periods sound like a flute.

Anyway, the main trick is to never stop running, which is why I try to breathe through my nose for as many periods as possible, and run with my eyes half closed, which makes me sleepy, and "automatic, and less energy consuming". I was quite pleased with myself, because I hung on a long time without having to use my mouth to "breathe", I was till the 5th period depending completely on my nose to breathe, then on the 6th period I needed one or two breaths through my mouth, and from the 7th period onwards it was "breathe how you can!". (and use up all that energy in those periods).

At about period eight, I had to open my eyes properly to be able to see where I was going, get to the line on time, etc, and I realised there were only 4 people, including Carmen. By period 10, which is where I dropped out (ZOMG! My record so far!) along with Carmen only Jorge was left.

In the second round, Maiky, a boy who is a year older than us because he failed a grade did 12,5, but that is what you expect from someone with more experience from that than anyone else.

Quite a lot of people came up to me and Carmen to "pat us on the back", and say things like:
"¡Ostras! ¡Cuánto habéis corrido!"
"Jodeeeeer, ¿cómo lo hacéis?"
and all the other typical things people say. Still, although we were the only girls by far who did that much there were many boys who did 9 - 10,5 periods, so I didn't know why they made such an emphasis on it.

After that we would technically have Athletics, which I quite like, but since it had rained again today, the main circuit was all wet, so we had to use a passage way built into a long track with two red lanes and one green one.

The teacher (whose name I don't remember, and always look at me and Carmen in a horribly creepy way whenever we run) told us to get into pairs, and we would do a few races. I paired up with Carmen, and we agreed to run at the same pace of each other, but in a progressive way. That seemed fine by me, and that is what we did. Enrique said we were running in exactly a line ("Well - that's what we agreed to do!") and that maybe we should try criss-crossing next time, it would be fun ("Yes, let's try it" said Carmen "When I say Ya! (now!) we cross!")

We did that, and those who saw seemed to find it amusing (and so did the teacher), and we were still running quite fast. Then "El Pulgoso" (Pulgoso is means they have fleas, so it would be fleabag technically. Since "El Pulgoso" calls me and Carmen "Las Pulgas / Las Pulguitas" (the fleas / the little fleas of him) we say he is the fleabag) wanted to run against the teacher, who lost, but he wasn't running at maximum speed. Then Carmen said I and her wanted to run against him, so I and Carmen went on the red lanes, and he occupied the green one. We then ran as fast as possible to the end, and I noticed the teacher was trying very hard to keep up with me. (No way must I let him get in front! I though as I saw his knees coming towards me) One last little push, and I got to the wall first, and although I put my leg in the way, I hurt my hands. Carmen and I had beat the teacher (and we got a positive yay!), which if you ask me, is something hard to manage, and something to be happy about. We then spent the rest of the class mainly jogging and running about.

So... Running - is - fun!

Well, this entry may seem a bit long, and boring, but I wanted to keep a record of it, because I had fun, hehehe.

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