What a week! First week back at work and wasnt sure how it would gel with my work out schedule and I also started keeping track of my nutrition this week. I have used MyFitnessPal App from time to time and am using it this time as well. Sometimes the numbers are a bit off but it is a great little tool to keep you honest about what you are eating and actually makes me want to push a little harder on the work outs so I can add those number into the exercise section. So far I have not missed a day and been under my calories, carbs and fat each day. Sodium has been off the chart though. Everything is a work in progress though. The week has gone something like this:
Monday: 40 min Bike ride + 3k run
Tuesday: 2x750m + 1x250m swims
Wednesday: 25min bike ride + 5k run
Thursday: off
Friday: 3x750m +1x250m swims
Saturday: 48min ride ( best time for 13miles at 41:02 min) + 5k ( best time in a long time of 40:28)
Sunday: ( will be a swim tomorrow)
So not bad considering monitoring food intake, a couple of night time meetings and a very long day yesterday.
Now for todays discussion, first off though, I am very fortunate. I have a job that I actually love. It is too hard to explain what I do, but in a nutshell, I get to work with student leaders along with a great group of people and act as a support for them as they work to provide services, and advocacy for other students. I am a full believer that being around that type of inspiration, enthusiasm and desire for change to make things better, keeps those of us in this industry, young at heart.
Yesterday I had a discussion with some students around the differences between my generation of people and our activities in university and this generation.
To be honest I dont think there is that much of a gap. There was drinking, drugs, sex, talent, aggression, causes, music, sports, homecoming, graduation, life long friends and memories for successes and failures. The same exist today.
However given the chance to either go to school then or now, I would always pick then. The single reason why, social media.
I honestly dont know if i could have lived with the stress that social media presses on students of today.
I am an active participant on a couple of different social media platforms, and i can tell you i will be keeping my kids off of things like facebook and twitter as long as humanly possible. I honestly think that there should be classes on it at the junior high and highschool, for both function and purpose.
I know I am bad for the #cigarSunday selfies, but Im old, and have been through multiple facebook profiles over the years weeding out 'friends' and figuring our what things I will post and what social media outlet.
I cant imagine how difficult this is to figure out as students are adjusting to new social media outlets on a daily and weekly basis. How quickly one comment or post can ripple out and go viral, how it can do an incredible amount of good or an incredible amount of harm.
I am not a scholar or academic so I wont try and offer much more then this as a final comment, that is not my own, but has stuck with me for the Canadian Heritage Moments from Marshall McLuhan:
'The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology'
So then the message of social media = ?
Okay that is about as deep as i get for this post. haha
Sean "Big Boy Running" Ryan
Monday: 40 min Bike ride + 3k run
Tuesday: 2x750m + 1x250m swims
Wednesday: 25min bike ride + 5k run
Thursday: off
Friday: 3x750m +1x250m swims
Saturday: 48min ride ( best time for 13miles at 41:02 min) + 5k ( best time in a long time of 40:28)
Sunday: ( will be a swim tomorrow)
So not bad considering monitoring food intake, a couple of night time meetings and a very long day yesterday.
Now for todays discussion, first off though, I am very fortunate. I have a job that I actually love. It is too hard to explain what I do, but in a nutshell, I get to work with student leaders along with a great group of people and act as a support for them as they work to provide services, and advocacy for other students. I am a full believer that being around that type of inspiration, enthusiasm and desire for change to make things better, keeps those of us in this industry, young at heart.
Yesterday I had a discussion with some students around the differences between my generation of people and our activities in university and this generation.
To be honest I dont think there is that much of a gap. There was drinking, drugs, sex, talent, aggression, causes, music, sports, homecoming, graduation, life long friends and memories for successes and failures. The same exist today.
However given the chance to either go to school then or now, I would always pick then. The single reason why, social media.
I honestly dont know if i could have lived with the stress that social media presses on students of today.
I am an active participant on a couple of different social media platforms, and i can tell you i will be keeping my kids off of things like facebook and twitter as long as humanly possible. I honestly think that there should be classes on it at the junior high and highschool, for both function and purpose.
I know I am bad for the #cigarSunday selfies, but Im old, and have been through multiple facebook profiles over the years weeding out 'friends' and figuring our what things I will post and what social media outlet.
I cant imagine how difficult this is to figure out as students are adjusting to new social media outlets on a daily and weekly basis. How quickly one comment or post can ripple out and go viral, how it can do an incredible amount of good or an incredible amount of harm.
I am not a scholar or academic so I wont try and offer much more then this as a final comment, that is not my own, but has stuck with me for the Canadian Heritage Moments from Marshall McLuhan:
'The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology'
So then the message of social media = ?
Okay that is about as deep as i get for this post. haha
Sean "Big Boy Running" Ryan
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