Brrrrr....

Tá an geimhreadh anseo! This blog hates the cold. It can be a real challenge to motivate yourself on a morning where the weather greets you with zero degree temperatures. The cold can be stingingly uncomfortable and of course it's fierce hard to get the blood flowing, and the joints remain stiff.

I missed the Sunday session gone, a lack of sleep that night got the better of me. I pushed myself to the gym this morning and gave myself a good punishment. Benching to failure and squatting like wise. I'm suffering now. Squats are a killer. My legs are like jelly, but it's a good feeling, at least you know you worked hard.

Tonight's class was good, I enjoy the Monday class. We have a good mixture of beginners on Monday and we train hard.

I really enjoy when a beginner comes along and takes to Taekwon-Do like a duck to water. Every now and again this happens and I get excited. This beginner is at the right age, 14 years old, already has a good base in gymnastics and understands body mechanics, this kid will go far once the mind is in the right place. I'm positive about it anyway. Feicfimid!

We're nearly into wind down mode now for the December holidays. A nice paganistic time of year. I enjoy the break, but the commercialism of the whole thing is quite pathetic. I would say Bah humbug, but I saw 'A Christmas Carol' - 3D the other night and it scared the pants off me! If you haven't seen it - see it! Tá sé ar fheabhas, it's excellent.

I'll be working out my training schedule over the xmas, the hardest thing will be keeping the chocolate intake down to a minimum!