The Road Goes Ever On and On

[AfterBurn]

I have a black belt test in a couple of months and I need to be more consistent with working out if I’m going to survive. My workouts may include non-darebee related activities like running, Zumba, Pound, and my schools kickboxing classes, so if I don’t finish my current program within 60(?) days, that’s why.

“The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can”

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

A Hero‘s Journey, day 1

 

[Froud]

Hello!

 

[Fremen]

Welcome

 

[JohnStrong]

Hello @AfterBurn

 

[AfterBurn]

Hero's Journey, day 2 + Zumba

"Chip the glasses and crack the plates! Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates! Smash the bottles and burn the corks!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates! So carefully, carefully with the plates!"

--J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

 

[Anek]

Hello and welcome!

 

[aku-chan]

 

[AfterBurn]

Hero's Journey, day 3

I chose the ribbon as my weapon. I did not exactly do the "100 of three different types of kicks" challenge, but I did go to my dojo's kickboxing/fitness class where I certainly did MUCH more than 300 kicks of different types. I hurt now.

"Gil-galad was an Elven-king, Of him the harpers sadly sing
The last whose realm was fair and free between the mountains and the Sea
His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen
The countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield
But Long ago he rode away and where he dwelleth none can say
For into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are"

--J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

No Hero's Journey today. Too sore after day 3 kickboxing yesterday and Zumba/Pound tonight.

"Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle;
the dog began to roar,
The cow and the horses stood on their heads;
The guests all bounded from their beds
and danced upon the floor."

--J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Log for Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

Saturday: Martial arts--2 hours, Zumba/Pound--45 min.
Sunday: Rest day
Monday: Unplanned rest day (lots of homework)
Tuesday: Hero's Journey day 4

 

[AfterBurn]

Today: Hero's Journey, Day 5--A Journey Through the Woods + Zumba Sentao

...My legs are going to sore tomorrow

"Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky, Pass them by! Pass them by!"

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

I was right, my legs are sore. Strayed again from Hero's Journey, but not in vain!

Today: Kickboxing 45 min. + Karate training 1 hour (forms and weapons)

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king"

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Friday: Zumba/Pound 45 min
Saturday: Karate + weapons (Tonfa) 2 hours
Sunday: Rest
Today: Hero's Journey day 6, Blocked Path (weapons practice, ribbon)

My "side kicks" kept turning into side blade kicks cause I'm not flexible that way, but ok

"Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on stony bed ,never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.
In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie,
till the dark lord lifts his handover dead sea and withered land"

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Tuesday: No fitness, felt lazy
Wednesday: Hero's Journey day 7, The Oracle---only level 1, the constant up and down made me queasy

"Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar? Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar?
Near is the hour when the Lost should come forth, And the Grey Company ride from the North.
But dark is the path appointed for thee: The Dead watch the road that leads to the Sea"

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

 

[AfterBurn]

Ugh, I've been slacking, people

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Here are my workout/diet confessions from the last 5 days...

Thursday: Hero's Journey, day 8 A Night to Remember; kickboxing 45 min; Karate forms practice 1 hour
Friday: Murder mystery party and junk food
Saturday: Halloween party and junk food
Sunday: Assisting at an airshow, movie night...and junk food
Monday: Hero's Journey, day 9 Collapsing Bridge, clear the bridge with a single leap

Total Hero's Journey Points: 1650

"He stood upon the bridge alone and Fire and Shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone, in Khazad-dûm his wisdom died."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Hero's Journey, day 10, Into the Storm + weapon's practice (ribbon)

Total Points: 1900

"The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled
from west to east and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.

"...Through Evernight he back was borne, on black and roaring waves that ran
o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores, that drowned before the Days began,
until he heard on strands of pearl, where ends the world the music long,
where ever-foaming billows roll, the yellow gold and jewels wan."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Wednesday: Nothing--too sore, too tired, too much homework, too many excuses
Thursday: Kickboxing 45 min

 

[AfterBurn]

...I've been bad. Didn't notice how bad until I just looked at my last post...

Thursday Nov. 17: Kickboxing 45 min.
Friday Nov. 18: Zumba 45 min.
Saturday Nov. 19: Karate 1 hr.
Sunday: Nov. 20: void of all activity except being a cashier
Monday Nov. 21: Hero's Journey day 11 level 2

• Total points: 2100

 

[AfterBurn]

Hero's Journey: day 12 Refuge

• Total Points: 2200

"I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be, when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see
"I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know.
"But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Wednesday: lifting heavy boxes for 8 hours at the cash register
Thursday: THANKSGIVING!!!!

Friday: Hero’s Journey day 13 level 3 + weapons practice (Sai practice in between sets; my flip strikes need work)

• Total points: 2550

 

[AfterBurn]

Hero's Journey day 14: ...And you are cornered level 3

• Total point: 2850

"We cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep....They are coming..."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[AfterBurn]

Sunday: Running 17.5 minutes

 

[AfterBurn]

Monday: Hero's Journey day 15 There'll Be Dragons; 10 rounds!!!

Total points: 3150

I wanted to stop at 5 rounds, but then the "right" song started playing and re-motivated me. The mind often gives out long before the body.

"The bells were ringing in the dale, And men they looked up with faces pale;
The dragon’s ire more fierce than fire, Laid low their towers and houses frail."

J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit

 

[AfterBurn]

Nov 29: Kickboxing 1 hour
Nov 30: none
Dec 1: Kickboxing 45 min
Dec 2: none
Dec. 3: none
Dec 4: None
Dec 5: none
Dec. 6: None
Dec. 7 Running 2 mi., Hero's Journey day 16 The Sun Goes Down

Total points: 3300

 

[AfterBurn]

Dec. 8: Hero’s Journey day 17, Double Trouble—level 3 + weapons practice
Kickboxing 45 min

Total points: 3700

Ouch

 

[AfterBurn]

Dec. 9: none
Dec. 10: 30 min. sparring
Dec. 11: none
Dec. 12: none
Dec. 13: none:
Dec. 14: 2 mi. running

 

[AfterBurn]

I worked out between today and the 14th, I just cant remember when.

Hero's journey, day 18: level 1 + bonus quest

Total points: 3900