BKJN Pat: A different kind of week

This week, because of the 4th of July holiday and Patty, our daughter-in-law having the week off,  our family went camping at Blue Lakes.  Most of them left last Sunday; I wasn't able to leave until Thursday evening because two of the boys were in summer school.  That meant that Friday and Saturday I wouldn't be home to do my usual routine of push ups, sit ups and cycling for two of the required 6 days.  It seemed a bit strange to not be doing those things; part of me welcomed the break; part of me worries how I'll ever get motivated to start again tomorrow.  This is the first time since January that I've allowed myself an additional two days off.  It's pretty easy to stop a routine; I'm hoping my discipline up until this point will make it easy to resume again.  I won't really know until tomorrow.  It's harder than I imagined, no that's not really true; its as hard as I imagined it would be to keep going all these months... and there are still 4 months to go. 

This month our Mastery Training takes us to Moaning Caverns: repelling, 200 feet in the dark, climbing around in caves. I can say with all honesty that this training has given me opportunities to do things I never would think about doing.  I'm hoping for this one, I'll be able to see it for the adventure it is and just go for it !

This weeks' numbers will be a bit less than usual.  That has to be okay because that's what is.  I'm adding another aspect of training to what I'm doing already. In addition to black belt class time, working on flow roll patterns with Jessi, private lessons with KJN Paul, SBN Terri and I will begin working with Virgil to get some training with stick, knife and gun ( I hope; stick and knife for sure; hoping for gun as well)  I seem to have a great deal of difficulty with the weapons portion of training.  This will be an opportunity to work some of that out. I wonder how one adds anymore things to an already full schedule and yet we are.



This week 6/29-7/2/15:

Push ups:  705  ( I can now do at least 3 consecutive sets of 50; I had two personal bests this week: 4 consecutive sets of 50 on Monday 6/29 and a first set of 55 on 7/2.)

Sit ups:  630
Running: 6.51 miles
Cycle: 9.9 miles
Classes: BB Class 2, private lesson, noon class