In heat like this, even resting makes me sweat

Cycling

18 miles at a 14.5 mph pace

I kept having weird mechanical issues this morning while riding. Bike needs a cleaning and lubing. Should probably think about when exactly when I want to take my bike in for a checkup before the Ride for Life.

Weight lifting

Rest day. Hot. It was "a skoah-tcha" as they'd say back in Boston.

Other Training

Karate: On hot days like today, Shishou likes to work us a little harder than normal. Some weird push up variation from a "Downward Facing Dog" position that I don't know the name of (kinda like the first half of a dive bomber), a little shoulder work and a lot of "making the two kids actually work for a change. That's one of the things that frustrates me about some kids: some of them are fine to work with. Some are nightmares. These two are about half way between the two ends of the spectrum — just frustrating enough that we've got to keep an eye on them. After warm ups we brought out the mats for rolls and falls, and diving forward front falls (which are some of my favorite! — as opposed to "frog front falls" which are also my favorite... actually I love them all!), and then we did diving Back falls, and diving side falls. It was fun to try these that way since it was much more of a realistic fall scenario. Once that was done we brought out the other mat and hooked them together. Then we did reverse hip throws (as opposed to sweeps), and I got to toss around Felix a bit (sorry!). Man, doing the strength work with the Kettlebells really makes a difference for these throwing skills. I feel like I tossed all 170 lbs of Felix around like a rag doll. Then it was front hip throws. I still hate these, since for whatever reason I can't seem to get the angles quite right...and just as I think I figured it out: we ran out of time. 45 minutes of tossing each other around was quite enough to work up a sweat.

Sword: No Scott (big shock, I know), so no sword. I wanted to really sweat for the rest of the night, so I put on my cut-off sweatshirt over the tshirt I was wearing... Shishou and I worked the Second Long Huo Jann Dou Quan Gungfu form until I had a good feel for it (about 15 times in the 45 minutes between students appearing. This is good, because this was the other form that I needed, and the only one that I didn't know cold. Most excellent!

Gungfu: Finished up some of of the first level drills for our Yellow Sash folks, then drilled the First Long Huo Jann Dou Quan form at least 10 times, then we got a chance to perform it solo. Shishou's instructions to me before my go were "Take your time, but hurry up". Great, thanks :) Normally at a slow pace it takes about 3 minutes to run through the whole form. I think I did the whole thing in about half that. I was breathing hard and dripping at the end (completely soaked through my sweatshirt) of that run. Then for the last 15 minutes of class we just ran the second form for the yellow sash folks (this would be the next form they'd have to learn after the one they're working on), only getting through it about 3 times (5 minutes per run). Still, even doing it that slowly, I was now beyond soaked, approaching a bonk. Good thing that was it for the night!