Friday night boxing

Cycled to gym

All rounds about 2 mins, 30 secs break

3 rounds skipping, 1 footwork alone, 1 footwork leading and following Micheal in partnerwork, 12 tagging game with Micheal. Micheal is a 14 year old kid in the gym who's very eager.

About 3 shadow, 6 bag

Padwork with George.

He says that my right cross and hook are getting stronger.

We practice uppercuts to the body with big round pad thingy. I ask him to rate my bodyshots because I can't feel whether they're good or bad.

Left uppercuts range from "S***" to "not bad". Right uppercuts are only rated as "worse than S***". George thinks it's weird because he thinks my right should be my natural hand but I tend to think that these days everything with the left hand works better.

Got to Aquatic centre

Stretch

Do Abs and lower back then start feeling ill. Perhaps the protein shake I bought at the boxing gym was off?

Try to call a taxi home but am left on hold so long I run out of credit on my phone (prepaid). I end up cycling home slowly but feel better after a few hours. Just had stomach cramps.

Saturday

No morning run - still feeling a little off

Afternoon sparring - cycle 45 mins to the gym in Somerton

Get to spar 4 rounds which is plenty really because it's 4 rounds continuous with 3 different guys all close to my weight. I really didn't expect to see anyone my weight and am thrilled. There will be two more guys for me to spar next week. Both pros who are close to my weight! This is the only time I have not felt like a freak for being light in South Australia.

One of the coaches thinks I have longer than average arms for my frame. That's nice. I've never thought I have any physical features which help my boxing at all!

I find that with some of the guys I'm not running backwards much but the one who moves me around the ring the most is actually the lightest! He's got an unusual way of using hooks and overhands to counter etc. It's a style coach George would be totally against (as he reminded me to forget overhands on Friday night - which he still doesn't know the name of) but this guy has it working very cleanly and controlled. I have a long chat to his coach who is actually from the UK to get an idea of how he's using it.

I'm really looking foreward to next Saturday because I learnt so much!


Sunday

Ran to aquatic centre - a bit over an hour - then went through program for weights with an instructor there. We discuss it for over an hour but run out of time.

Will continue tomorrow morning. I'm very demanding and he's really thinking about everything I ask for and all my muscle imbalances, making sure I do things with the correct technique etc. I'm impressed since I did not expect him to be so thorough.

He recognized my model of heart rate monitor too and showed me some functions on it I haven't seen before. Handy! I think perhaps he's fairly into whatever his own sport is which helps.

I catch the bus home which thanks to our amazing public transport service takes about 3 times longer than running would but my nose is still dripping like a tap after a week so I don't want to push it. The instructor commented on my cold as perhaps being a sign I'm overtraining.

I don't think I overtrained but since it came on at the end of the week when I was tired I think perhaps if I'd managed my time to allow more sleep etc during the week it wouldn't have been an issue?!

Geez time management - I've NEVER been good at that!

Fortnightly cook up

3 curries - beef, chicken and sliced up sausage meat (been frozen for ages needed to use them) with extra vegies added and Basmati rice. Also bought some Up and Gos. Not as good as protein shakes but cheaper and since I usually have to at least cycle 40 mins home after I'll be drinking one i could use a few carbs.