Nothing like having my running partner step off the treadmill, me knowing she just royally booked it on the treadmill for 10kms. She ran 10kms at a pace that beat my personal best pacing on race day. Yikes.
That's tough competition. That's exactly why she is my running partner.
Rocket keeps me motivated with my running. We've got our ultimate goal -- full marathon in early 2015 -- and we have our weekly long runs and pacing goals but my boxing is lacking in push and focus.
In terms of my boxing, I've got the equivalent of blue balls for any boxer -- am itching for a fight and frustrated with having to fight the very organization that is suppose to support us fighters. KBC is over a year behind in figuring out and posting the female rankings for us female boxers. They're suppose to be done every month and posted on their homepage, like the male boxers always are. I've emailed them and called too. I've even called them out on it in a discussion on KakaoStory and in person at a tournament. And just when my Korean male boxer friends thought they had it rough with the bickering Korean boxing organizations battling it out, welcome to the ignored side of Korean boxing that us pro females are in.
I was on high from my Thai fight victory and have been riding the high, hoping it'd score me a contract for another fight but I am still waiting and I'm coming off that high. I haven't heard back from KBC or my own manager. It's got to the point where I'm considering returning to Thailand and putting myself through that whole damn draining ordeal again for the sake of having a real substantial goal, getting to fight and upping my ranking. My manager emailed me the other day for a fight in Japan -- New Year's eve, a 6 round fight against a female boxer who is more known out of the ring for her beauty but it's her beauty that has made her famous in the ring. She is some kind of beauty contestant/model and so the crowd loves this fact. Unfortunately I saw the email after the matchmaker had decided to go with another boxer. They decided to go with a Thai boxer and I'm not surprised, for reasons I can't and won't get into. Perhaps it is for the best. I mean, this Japanese fighting beauty queen stands in at a crazy 177cm so she's 20cm taller than me and with her being Japanese and the fight being in Japan, well no need to go into what I am hinting at and what others already know or can assume here.
I love my boxing but it's so very frustrating to be training so hard day after day with no real goal due date in sight. Yesterday's massive shipment helped to respark my dedication to my training but even that high won't last. I need a goal.
Today I decided I was going to take one of the new pairs of gloves and claim them as mine. I took a pair of gloves and a pair of handwraps too. It's been years since I have had a new pair of handwraps, almost 5 years to be exact. They only cost about $10-$15 and I have received many free ones from Adidas but I have always given them away, like to the girls of Flipside Fitness and amateur members I trained with at UP. Wrapping my hands in the fresh never-used-before, super white handwraps felt so good. Only worn once now but they're already dirty...good.
I met a man today, a Korean man who randomly walked into our club and started to watch us all train. When I stopped in between rounds to grab another elastic for my hair, I passed by him and said hi. "Where are you from girl?" he asked me in English. The sudden fluent English threw me off but I answered. "I'm originally from Canada but Korea is my home. Where are you from man?" He answered "New York, New York", and with that a conversation sparked and my training took a curious interruption. As is turns out, he is Korean but lived in Queens, New York for awhile, has a house in Long Island, and his English is as high as his bubbly energy. He's 68 and super smiley like a kid at a candy shop. He told me stories of his boxing days and Mauy Thai days and every so often he would throw out some random boxing combos on the sandbag beside me. 68 and he still dreams of being a pro boxer, I thought that was pretty cool. "When I am your age I am going to be just like you", I told him, "full of things I still want to become, full of goals and dreams".
He was a sweet refreshing break from my training and I do hope he returns to become a new member because I loved his fresh energy. As it turns out, he is the pastor of a church down the street. He joked that his church had no English service but that he'd gladly make accommodations for me if I were to join his church. I joked, told him I'd join his church if he joined my club but regardless of if he joins our club not I just may join his church. Joining a church was up there on my Bucketlist this year and it never happened. Perhaps I can make it happen next year instead of watching taped services from my church in Toronto.
I think the mix of my new gloves with my 68 year old visitor definitely helped to keep me pumped during training but what about tomorrow's training? Until I get a fight, I'll have to come up with other goals to keep my mind focused, preoccupied and distracted from the lack of a fight so what I have come up with are daily goals. Every day I am going to write out 5 fitness-related goals to attack and conquer.
TOMORROW'S 5 FITNESS GOALS:
1. Run regardless of ANYTHING -- time, weather, work, the dogs... Snickers' cuddles!
2. Start training right at or before 2:30pm.
3. Be as close to par with my macro nutrients for the day.
4. Drink a cup of water every working hour.
5. Every work hour do 20 push-ups and 40 squats.
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