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.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Growing Older Doesn't Have to Mean Growing Boring... Wednesday, January 9


My days are quite active ones but after work there’s really nothing to do.

Coworkers head home while others hid away in their dorm rooms, leaving me going stir crazy and itching to do something.  My energy levels confuse them all.  I asked them if anyone wanted to go late night mountain hiking but had no takers.  I will get them hiking though, I’m on a mission.  This weekend I get to go home so I’m going to bring back with me my headlamps and am going to get them hiking up the mountain with me.  But that’s next week, tonight I wanted to go hiking.

Ended up hiking up the mountain by myself – I don’t necessarily recommend it.
Ended up turning my hike into a run up the mountain – I certainly don’t recommend this.

I don’t really like hiking actually.  The thought of walking seems rather boring to me.  I like a challenge, so I decided to run up the mountain tonight instead of simply walking it.  Only one problem, I couldn’t see.
Ok, so I suppose I should add here that I was a total virgin to the path.  I guess that means I had two problems actually.

“No need to panic”, I told myself, “what’s really the worst that could happen?!”, and with that I continued running up the mountain.  It was only by the feel of the snow under my runners that I knew I was even on the path.  Whenever I felt my feet kicking up powdery snow, and there were many occurrences of this, I knew I had ventured off the path.

What’s the worst that could happen?!... perhaps the worst that could happen is that I think too much about this question and end up spooking myself.  That’s pretty much what happened actually, well that and I started feeling snow-blind.  I couldn’t see anything but the white ground and then everything else was black. 

After about a 40min run up the mountain, I decided to come down but I did so on a bag.  I had a bag in my training pants pocket so I sat down on it and rode it down like it was a sled – I definitely recommend this though not necessarily doing it at night.  

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