Bye to the Rooster!

Well, the Year of the Rooster is coming to an end. 


Its been a year of once in a life experiences, a year of challenges, and a year of rewards.  Its been a pretty amazing Rooster group and the year seemed to fly by so very quickly. 


I joined KungFu to get some exercise since I was at the kwoon anyways.  I have always enjoyed coming to KungFu, it was a great stress release and great people to be around.  Slowly I've progressed up the belts and made it to where I am today, but this year something has changed and its hard to put my finger on it except for the simple fact that "I want my black belt".  I know it is many years of hard work still to come but I look forward to the challenge.


Also this year I have been working on building back up my shoulder and strengthening my knee muscles.  Both of these I thought were tough until I bruised some ribs last week.  That caused me to sit on the sidelines on Saturday and I can't tell you how disappointed I felt as I was letting down the team, especially my cane partner Sifu Beckett.  This gave me time to reflect on how to train smarter through this injury so this week I will try to rest and find ways to train without aggravating things further.  This may have put my running training behind schedule but at least my horse stance time will improve.
 
Not really a great end to the Year of the Rooster but at least I can be thankful that I wasn't in the dragon this year!