So a few days down, and the first gym session and first TSD session of the year are behind me. The gym was a killer. What I did before to warm up left me gasping and by the end of the hour I was feeling quite sore and very tired. There was thought behind it though, as I knew I had TSD the next evening, so the idea was to blow out the cobwebs before I got back in the dojang.
Um yeah, that one didn’t work out quite as I’d hoped… The warmup was still a shock to the system, so much so someone else got a nosebleed from the exertion 🙂 But once we were back into the swing of things it was like I’d never been away, and I have to say I’m so pleased to be back in a dobok and working hard. The conditioning exercises at the end of the session left me with purple forearms today, but that’s all part of the fun :).
The other part of this update’s title refers to the fact that last night was exactly six years to the day that I first started training in Tang Soo Do. In some ways it feels like a lifetime ago, in others, like yesterday, but going along for that first session in a cold school hall was one of the best decisions I ever made. Here’s to the next six!