THE BEST NEWS FIRST: I AM NOT IN PRISON IN PERU. Should you get a phone call, as my uncle did today, from someone who says I wrecked a car in Peru and need $1,800 wired to get bailed out, you can safely laugh and hang up. However, if you wish to send me the …
Category: Aikido
Talk of Relationships, and the May Goal
MEN CAN SAFELY READ THIS POST - it's not about that kind of relationship talk. My month of intense Aikido training is complete with a grand total of 55 classes, 110% of my goal of 50. I feel surprisingly good, considering at the end of the first week I wondered how I could survive three …
Feeling No Pain
I KNELT FOR THE START OF ADVANCED CLASS WITH ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME for being there. Wednesday is usually a running day, but as this is my final week of heavy training and I hadn't been to the advanced class yet, I shuffled my schedule around and went to the dojo tonight. After the first …
A Good Week on the Mat
LESS OFFICE WORK AND MORE AIKIDO? I could get used to this. Three weeks and 37 classes into my April goal, and I've learned so much that I'm almost reluctant to return to a normal schedule in May. And with my body adjusting to the extra training, I'm feeling much better than I did after …
RUN COFFEE WRITE 