TopNotch
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Programme:
Shadebound Day 20
Challenges:
Daily Push-ups Day 5
Walk and Run Day 5
Epic Glutes Day 20
Lower Abs Day 5
Destress Day 5
Walk. 2.6k x 2. Okay, sub-zero, but the sun was out. It was so cold precisely because the sun was out and the sky was so clear. Brr. Some 'cool' pictures of frost today to comfort those of you who are suffering from the heat. 
The roof of my poor car,
Close-up
The wonderful patterns of Nature (on the bonnet of my car)
Do autumn leaves ever stop being beautiful? I think it's amazing the way the ice particles are little rectangular prisms.
Taekwondo. Surprisingly few adults today. Maybe nobody wanted to venture out in the chilly evening! I ddin't do much jumping today. I did 2 x 20 jumping jacks, and I did the 10 burpees, but I passed on the 3 x 5 knee tucks. Last Thursday's jumping kicks made my cranky knee unhappy so I'm being nice to it - kind of. We did kicks against the wall, with a partner holding a paddle. Turning kicks, low and medium and double, then side kicks, low and then (for red and black belts) double, one low, one high. On to poomsae. Again, the black belts were called out after everyone else and this time we only did Koryo and I was fairly happy with it. Tonight, though, I was the only adult black belt. Oh, four others turned up a bit later, but that meant they were at the back of the class, leaving me in 'poll position'. Normally, we first bow to the highest belt, then we bow to the coach. Last week, though, we didn't, and I realise now that it was because there were two of equal rank, but tonight, there was just me. First time I've been the 'highest' belt! I must say, that when everyone turned to me and bowed (and of course I bowed in return), I felt rather uncomfortable - centre of attention and all that. Not my thing. Then I had to call attention and bow to the instructor, but that was easy.
Writing - I've been almost completely reworking chapter two for about the last fortnight! Fortunately, I think it's going well and is much better than it was.
Reading - just finished a book. It was a police procedural and I'm not so much into those, but it was a pretty good book.
Shadebound Day 20Challenges:
Daily Push-ups Day 5 Walk and Run Day 5 Epic Glutes Day 20 Lower Abs Day 5 Destress Day 5 Walk. 2.6k x 2. Okay, sub-zero, but the sun was out. It was so cold precisely because the sun was out and the sky was so clear. Brr. Some 'cool' pictures of frost today to comfort those of you who are suffering from the heat. The roof of my poor car,
Close-up
The wonderful patterns of Nature (on the bonnet of my car)
Do autumn leaves ever stop being beautiful? I think it's amazing the way the ice particles are little rectangular prisms.
Taekwondo. Surprisingly few adults today. Maybe nobody wanted to venture out in the chilly evening! I ddin't do much jumping today. I did 2 x 20 jumping jacks, and I did the 10 burpees, but I passed on the 3 x 5 knee tucks. Last Thursday's jumping kicks made my cranky knee unhappy so I'm being nice to it - kind of. We did kicks against the wall, with a partner holding a paddle. Turning kicks, low and medium and double, then side kicks, low and then (for red and black belts) double, one low, one high. On to poomsae. Again, the black belts were called out after everyone else and this time we only did Koryo and I was fairly happy with it. Tonight, though, I was the only adult black belt. Oh, four others turned up a bit later, but that meant they were at the back of the class, leaving me in 'poll position'. Normally, we first bow to the highest belt, then we bow to the coach. Last week, though, we didn't, and I realise now that it was because there were two of equal rank, but tonight, there was just me. First time I've been the 'highest' belt! I must say, that when everyone turned to me and bowed (and of course I bowed in return), I felt rather uncomfortable - centre of attention and all that. Not my thing. Then I had to call attention and bow to the instructor, but that was easy. Writing - I've been almost completely reworking chapter two for about the last fortnight! Fortunately, I think it's going well and is much better than it was. Reading - just finished a book. It was a police procedural and I'm not so much into those, but it was a pretty good book.
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Walk. Just as we were heading out this morning, literally as I was going down the front steps, it began to drizzle. Now I don't mind walking home in the rain, but I don't like the idea of the Lad sitting in damp clothes for a morning until he eventually dries out, so we turned around and he was driven to school.
We all kept screwing up. Ah well, it was fun. At least, I thought it was funny! (Probably not a good example of a martial arts mindset!) People were split off into Patterns, leaving black and red belts. The coach had us do Pattern 1. P, who hates poomsae, looked blankly at me next to him and I just smiled and shrugged. The coach led us through, and I think P managed without too much problem. Then the coach called for Pattern 6, and I did that one pretty well - not sure about P. But when he called Pattern 7, I went a complete blank - I had no idea how it began! Fortunately the coach led and I remembered but it reminded me that I have been very slack with my patterns this year. After all that, we did some self-defence. My partner was L who said he didn't know them, and I only had a hazy recollection, but P was next to us and he knew them so we copied him and his partner. L decided not to go for the elbow lock but thought that crushing his ulna into my tricep tendon would be a better immobiliser. Yep, it might be, but leaning on my elbow wouldn't have resulted in the sensitive blue bruise on my tricep! Ouch!
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And it's all got to be done before spring.
Keeping busy!
Didn't really matter as I had to go shopping anyway. Got my eldest (who's now of an age to be able to get her Learner's permit!) to fill the tank with petrol - she's got to learn sometime!
(seriously - I empathize!) And bravo for Duolinguo streak! I am at 1294, though definitly used those streak freezes!
) we had iced fingerbuns for lunch. Nice and healthy. 
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