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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Sweat, Set, Fret

Still not feeling well but I think today was better than the last two.  At least, I hope so.  The Cycle is no time to be out sick.  I'm OK on Leadership 1 - it's leading warmups and whatnot that I'm worried about.  And, of course, mentoring and Black Belt classes, etc.  I think I'll be good, though, since I think I'm on the mend.  It's just extra hot and sweaty doing all this work while I'm fighting this cold.

I got most of my requirements done in between work and dinner.  I even did an extra round of jump rope (on accident).  I tried doing all the non-weapons forms to see if I could get them done within 15 minutes and just barely squeezed them all in.  I think the dog was very confused by it, though.

Since Gabe was teaching class tonight, I started dinner but forgot she had a mentoring session after and couldn't figure out why she wasn't home when I expected her.  But she got home and we hand dinner and then did some self-defenses together.  Tomorrow Samuel goes back to school so we'll see how that affects everything.  I'm definitely going to need to get more stuff done in the mornings.

Journal 31: last day of summer
8/12/2024