School is winding down, but as always, as it winds down it speeds up. Putting together final exams and creating review materials for the entire semester are both relatively stressful activities. I am always concerned that I am asking too little or too much of the students. Still, it is a rewarding time as in so many courses that pieces that have seemed so disparate all start to come together. When the students start to assemble the bigger picture and get beyond the small fragment to the whole then so much of the learning jells. That is an exciting time for me as a teacher to see that happen.

On other fronts, I ran the half-marathon in Saskatoon last Sunday as part of the Saskatchewan Marathon. The weather was chilly and windy but at least it was not raining or snowing as had been forecast. the race itself was great fun; I ran a 2:08:59, which was well short of my 2:05 target but a lot better than what I thought I would do. Now to slowly ramp up my mileage to about 40 miles per week. I am running the half-marathon in Prince Albert on June 20th, so no great ramping up before that. But after that my next race is the River Run in S'toon on August 15th and then the half-marathon in Regina on September 12th. Probably traveling to Seattle in July and I don't think there will be many races to run there, not in July. Who knows, I might luck out!