Currently Reading: Fighting

It’s four days after my 24th fight and I filmed a video journal update out at the Chiang Mai University fields where I like to do sprints.  It’s been a rough four days, emotionally speaking.  Just...

My general pattern over the past 5 months has been to fight every 14 days, giving me 10 full days of training between matches.  It’s a comfortable pattern and I like it.  It’s enough time to...

It’s one day before my 24th fight, my 12th fight here in Thailand since returning 5 months ago.  I have now officially fought more in Thailand than in the US (as I had 3 fights in...

Before Departure When I get to the gym with my husband on fight night there is always at least one Thai from the camp sitting on a stone bench outside the convenience store, located across the...

Intensity and Purpose I don’t believe I’ve ever trained harder than for my 22nd fight.  It’s a different world of training and fighting here in Thailand, so to the western reader that sentence may be interpreted...

  It finally wasn’t raining during my run this week and I remembered my camera.  This is a recipe for success when it comes to actually making a video journal update. Four days before my 22nd...

 A Word of Warning A couple weeks after arriving at Lanna I was chatting with Andy before morning training.  It was probably 6:15 AM and we’d just returned to the gym after a run at the...

  There’s a street vendor cart right below my balcony (well, many floors below my balcony, but a direct fall/jump) that sells the most delicious fried chicken.  Sometimes I step out and look over the railing...

 Brother My brother Shane and I are close in disposition and age; he is two years my elder.  As the younger siblings we were subjected to both the physical maturity and emotional immaturity of our older...

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