I FLUNKED UKE tonight. This is hard to do, but somehow I managed it. As senior student tonight, I was the demonstration Uke. The technique Sensei chose is supposed to end with Uke sliding to flat on the mat as Shite pulls Uke’s arm. Just before this, we’d been practicing sliding movements, and I could …
Author: RunBikeThrow
By day, I'm a mild-mannered Director of Training at a software company in Ann Arbor, MI. By night - I sleep, mostly. In between, I do other things I feel the need to write about. Check out fitnessat50.net to view my thoughts on running, cycling, Aikido, and other things that keep me going.
Six Miles
WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RUN last night! We headed out at 6:30. The sun was bright and the temperature was perfect (right around 60 degrees). We ran through a couple of parks on the Huron River, and over the Argo Dam. There were rowing sculls on the river, and lots of other people out running or …
A Leap Forward
SOMETHING AMAZING HAPPENED on the mat today. Amazing to me only, I understand, but it didn’t feel any less good for that. Today was the birthday of the founder and head of our school, and our instructor decided to celebrate by making the second evening class a conditioning class. We began with sets of back …
A Strong Tailwind
A STRONG TAILWIND can make you glad you’re alive. In place of a recovery run today, I did a 25-mile ride toChelseaand back. The first leg was west, directly into a strong wind. The temptation was there to push harder into the wind, but this was a recovery day – just gear down and relax, …
