Thunderdome: 2 days enter: one day posts

Ugh, didn't get a chance to update my blogs yesterday because my allergies were in full force. I hate them and wish they'd find a different bloke to bother. Also getting 11 hours of sleep probably helped a bit too.

Cycling

Wednesday: 22.76 miles at a 14.1 average pace. Totally rockin!

Thursday: 6.5 miles thanks to f'in mother nature...

Weight lifting

Wednesday: Tried getting in a Clean and Press with both hands, just to see how my progress is doing: Right arm — totally rockin' the single rep. Left arm — messy clean and no press. Okay, more TGUs and swings until I can do it with both hands. Then I can start working on working towards an eventual RKC-I (my guess is that it'll take me about 2 years to get there. I'd settle for being certified RKC by the time I'm 35 a victory (considering at my current pace I'll also either have my Sandan or Yondan in Karate, my Nidan if not Sandan in Sword, and maybe — just maybe if we work real hard, and the other students hurry — I'll also have my Black sash in gungfu) cert. It's gonna be a long road, but it sounds like it's going to be worth it.

• FTW Squats
• Pumps
• Halos
• TGUs — was totally doggin this one, and tried going for an extra set at the end of 5 minutes...totally a bad idea and I paid for it with a wrenched shoulder. The only reason it didn't injure me is that I was only working with the 16kg bell. Remember: The Party is always right

Thursday: Swings. Yay! Swings! Swings on 11 hours of sleep following no dinner. Yay... um... no that sucks. Okay, but we'll do them anyway! YAY!

• FTW Squats
• Pumps
• Halos
• Swings: 2x(10;15;20) — if I had eaten last night and not felt like hell this morning I probably could have gotten in another set. Next week I'll bump it up to 3 sets total

Other Training

After 2x20 push-ups and 20 situps we worked on a bunch of self-defense-ish stuff including some really viscous street-fighting "ideas" I'll call them (Tiger Rake to the eyes, Dragon Hand to the throat, to name a couple). No Scott so no sword. Gungfu was a few sets of a qigong form that really brings out the sweat, then we worked on some White Crane stuff until the end of the night, and called it a day.