1. Still have my suntan from my trip to Canada... crazy!!!
2. Mi Nam proved to be quite the entertainer today when I took him to the fifth floor courtyard and he insisted on running around in the garden. I jumped in the garden to grab him just as six business men came into the courtyard to smoke... great.
3. Haven't seen the Sambu Hyun Bin for quite some time now but he too was a witness to me and Mi Nam standing in the garden... perfect (note that's sarcasm to it's fullest there). I don't think red was quite the colour that flooded over my entire body.
4. Went for my usual mid-day run that I've been doing lately and while I was running on the treadmill, a strange thought came over me... I might be way under weight for my fight, how ironic is that?! I talked to one of the trainers at Hongik about it and he came up with an ingenious plan: wear ankle weights at my game weigh-in. My fight will be on the 17th but I have to go to Seoul the day before and get officially weighed-in... and I just might have to make myself somehow heavier... hahaha.
5. Jumped on the treadmill, cranked up my iPod, and let my eyes glaze over as I booted it on the machine for a good hour. Lately I've been really looking forward to my daily runs. It gets me pumped up for the rest of the day and it's when I do my most in-depth thinking. Mainly I just think about my upcoming game. I never turn on the TV set attached to my machine but instead stare into it, stare at my own reflection as if I stare hard enough I can envision myself in the ring with her... with Bo Young. Sometimes I even pretend I'm racing her and so I kick up the speed a couple of notches and blaze it.
6. The trainers and manager know enough not to interrupt me while I'm running but they always get a good laugh at me all bundled up in a winter hoodie and an Adidas sweater and sweating my brains out. I love it though. After a good run I feel so hyper and seeing my sweater with patches of sweat seeping through the cloth proves to me that I trained hard.
7. With all this extra training, my poor washing machine is working on overload... hahaha.
8. Later in the evening Q and I headed out to boxing together. I erased my name off the club's white board the other day and so no one really knows that I have a game coming up. I don't need the added stress, I put enough on myself as it is.
9. Am looking forward to getting "reggae hair", as Junior Mint calls it. I keep on reminding him that it's called corn-rolls but he never remembers.... hahaha.
10. Almost knocked myself out tonight at training after I slipped on my own loose shoelace and went flying back. And what should so happen to be conveniently behind me but one of the four metal poles that supports the ring lines... nice. As my head smacked against the metal, it caused a huge dinging sound to ring out and so many other boxers stopped. "Round finish?" someone asked. "No, that was just my head... fooled you though... hahaha" I responded with. So ya, my head right now looks like it's got some kind of extraterrestrial creature trying to pop out the back of it... real nice... hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Why do I laugh almost instantaneously when I injure myself?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary
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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5 comments:
If you're underweight, why are you running for an hour on the treadmill? You should be easing out on the cardio.
Hi Anonymous,
I know, but it gets me out of the house, people leave me alone when I'm running, it's when and where I do my best thinking, and it's the main thing keeping me sane right now.
Lol - corn-rolls! I think you mean corn-rows!
*I guess that weigh ins aren't taken very seriously, seeing as how wearing weights is not seen as an offense or cheating?
*Me too! When I saw the first treadmills with TVs on them, even I, a lazy person, had to admit that TVs on treadmills is ridiculous. I try to get a treadmill without one, and so look at my reflection in the window, pretending I'm a quarter back and I'm going to tackle him.
*Ouch. Reminds me of my back. Not fully healed yet ><
<3
-Bman
Hi Anonymous,
Oops... my bad. Just goes to show you that I've been calling them wrong my whole life... hahaha. I'll probably still call them "corn rolls" though... lol
Hey Bman,
No... weigh-in is very serious. I was kind of joking... kind of. I wouldn't really go and wear weights, I might indulge in some food before hand though... lol.
Nice... a quarter back eh, whatever works.
Take it easy with your health there!
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