Today's turn of events:
10am -- boxercise class #1
12pm -- grocery shopping
1:30pm -- boxing (my own training)
2:30pm -- boxercise class #2
6pm -- timed run with a personal training client
7pm -- meeting with sponsor
9pm -- two hour mountain hike
After a long day loaded up with excessive amounts of physical training and lots of running around, you'd think I'd come home and be allowed to veg-out... no such luck.
Snickers wanted to go up on the mountain.
He reassured me he would just simply be hiking it -- no running, no random sprints and no speed walking. I figured when he told me Pyen Chi would be going along with him that it'd be a walk that'd probably last from 30 minutes to an hour -- an hour being the max.
The hike lasted two hours.
At one point in the hike we got to this cable bridge that hung over a winding road where people driving the mountain side road would speed below on it. Snickers is all about scaring me though so no sooner had I step foot on it but then he started to jump up and down on it, causing it to sway and jiggle. I wasn't impressed but I tried to act like it didn't bother me. Then he told me about how Mouse Doctor likes to stand on the outside of the bridge, holding himself up with only the one thick cable and his grip on it.
What spooked me though was the fact that at first Pyen Chi refused to cross the bridge. I guess she too didn't like how much it rocked and how you could see through the bottom of the metal grid bottom. She kept on getting her claws caught in the metal grid so she stopped and just stood there looking at me. I ended up having to somewhat carry her across a good chunk of the bridge. At the halfway mark I let her down and she bolted to the other side. Same thing happened when we returned and had to cross the bridge again.
Many mountains in Korea have random street lights posted on them which is kind of weird but considering how popular mountain hiking is here it is a rather good idea. Don't get me wrong though, in between the lights it's very sketchy walking and is rather dark.
I ended up mistaking a candle in the distance as a street light marking the path and ended up taking a slide down part of the mountain where I thought was a path. Turns out it was a lady, a Shamanist, doing some kind of ritual. And though I could hardly make out her shape or hear if she was even saying anything, her motionlessness and presence really gave me a creepy feeling.
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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