Fall 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!
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Catching up

I got up today and, somewhat reluctantly, dragged myself out the house for a walk.  I'm behind on mileage and while I know I'll have time to make it up, I don't want to get too far behind after losing a lot of days to bad weather.  Between before work and during lunch, I managed to knock out three miles and finally got within 90% of where I'm supposed to be so the warning message on the tracking finally disappeared.  I'm getting better about getting physical requirements done before 5pm and, in fact, had most of them done by time I went out for my lunch walk.  I guess that's easier to do when you don't wind up taking lunch until after 1pm but I'll take the small victory.

Gabe changed her mind about helping with class so I packed up her uniform and her bag and brought that down with my own.  Surprisingly, we didn't have a large class for a Thursday Senior Tigers class and had more than enough people helping so she just picked up Samuel and went home.  After class I chatted with the Muay Thai folks as they trickled in and then went home and helped Samuel with his math homework while Gabe started dinner.  He had a lot to catch up on after being out sick for two days but I think he's mostly caught up on what he needs to know at this point.  After dinner we worked on Forms and Self-Defenses while he got ready for bed.  Now it's journal time and then bedtime because it's back to requirements tomorrow and then to the dojang for sparring tomorrow night.

Practice with a friend!
Thursday