Going to Extremes for the Fight... Saturday, October 11

In the same very outfit -- training leggings, a tank top and a sports bra -- I did the following "training routine" today and yes I know you get absolutely soaked when you swim in such clothing.  The weather here in Thailand is so hot that no sooner did I get all wet but then I dried off.  By the end of the day this particular pair of leggings, tank top and sports bra had had a rough day.  My tank top got some "time off" at boxing though, on account I couldn't do burpees without risking flashing everyone because of its length... hahaha. 

10am -- random road between a forest and lake
Morning jogging/laps in the rain

12noon -- sauna
Afternoon swim
Sweating it out in the sauna room
Freezing my butt off in the ice room
Random dips in the cold ice pool
...then more swimming

Midafternoon sleep

3pm -- boxing club
Jump rope
Shadow boxing
Padwork with Filipino coach
Weight training
Corner coaching for kids "chicken fights" (silly childhood game)

By the time 6pm came around my energy was spent but I was sure the anticipated dinner meal would give me a second wind and restore my spent energy.  I was wrong.  There are basically only three things in Korea that I refuse to eat:
1.  Spicy food in the morning
2.  Ramine
3.  Samgyupsal (fatty pork)

Well, today for breakfast they served spicy kimchi jigga (kimchi stew) with an even spicier guk (bean sprout soup).  Lunch consisted of ramine and for dinner, my post training meal, they cooked up pretty much my body weight in fatty pork.  It wasn't until the massive slab of pork emerged from the fridge that I spoke up.  I hadn't eaten the ramine but my tummy was still aching from the morning spicy jigga.  Now if there were a drink in Korea that I'd add to this list of food I never eat, cola would definitely be it.  Well, today it was being offered in abundance -- after jogging, at the pool, during boxing, and of course at dinner. 

 

I'm not ungrateful and I didn't want to be difficult because everyone has been so incredibly supportive of me but I am living here with Koreans this week, in Thailand, and their Korean food is seriously messing up my system.  I know my body and today's food mixed with the meal on the plane, well, this may be too much info but I haven't been able to poop...seriously!!! I went hard with the morning coffee, hoping it'd act as a laxative but all it really did is leave me jumpy like a squirrel for boxing. 

 

It was at dinner that I brought this up and I jokingly asked them if they were secretly working with my opponent.  "Are you purposely trying to sabotague me for the competition?!" I asked.  They all thought it was funny, which was the point, but I definitely needed to talk to them about what I've been eating and how my body simply is rejecting the food their bodies are so accustomed to eating.  So we made a deal.  We were going to go down to Walking Street so the deal we made at the dinner table was if I ate a frog then they'd make me a breakfast of choice for tomorrow.  So you bet I ate that nasty crispy frog -- hell ya!!! Looks like tomorrow I will get my egg sandwich and veggies...sweet.