This semester has been great for my physical education. My fitness level has increased so much. Most of this change has been experienced outside of PE class in my swimming. At the last competition, in every event that I raced, I dropped my time. This was an international competition and I got to compete with Ryan Lochte. In the 50m butterfly, I took off almost a second and was .5 off of my age group national time standard. The next day in the 100m butterfly, I took off three seconds and was .3 off of my age group national time. I also raced the 200m IM that day in which I took off five seconds. The last day, I swam the 200m butterfly and took off seven seconds, .4 off of my Western qualifying time and the 100m back and took off three seconds from the time that I'd posted the previous week. It was a great competition for me and showed how much my fitness level has been increasing.
Our PE class is first block of the day which means a definite lack of enthusiasum. Every day, I try to stay positive and always do my best. Sometimes my results are lacking because I have swim practice half an hour before fitness day and I'm really tired but I want to succeed.
I have always been afraid of balls because my face is like a magnet, however on my birthday, I had a breakthrough. We were playing speed ball, I scored two goals. Me! That has definately raised my confidence with balls.
To be physically educated. In my opinion, this means knowing how to keep your body healthy in a way that you enjoy. In PE class, we explore many ways to keep your fitness up. But not only fitness is important. Its a lifestyle. Its knowing what you eat and puting things into your body that will help it stay healthy, its doing something active that you love to do every day, its getting into bed at a reasonable time so that you get the minimum of eight hours every night, its keeping an open mind , to try new things that may scare you. These things are really important to me and I think that I can do them without PE class. I have swimming that I love and do eight times a week. I never eat anything without looking at the ingredients and the nutrition lable and I try to get to bed early, espessialy on the night before I have morning practice. Every day at practice is something new, something harder and sometimes I'm not sure if I can make the set times but in the end I do and I feel like I've accomplished something.
I believe that according to the above, I deserve an A in PE 10.
