Thursday 29-11-07 – Basic Ladders

I thought I better do some kind of workout, so I decided to do some ladders.  These were more for strength than conditioning, although by the end I was sweaty and my heart was beating fairly hard.

For those who don’t know what the ladder system is, it is starting with 1 rep, resting for the time it takes to do 1 rep, then doing 2 reps, resting for 2, and keep going up until you can’t go any further.  This is great for adding to your max number of a certain exercise you can do consecutively.  For my rest, I found it easier to say 1 rep = 1 second rest.  So if I did 5 reps, I had 5 seconds rest.

I found out during the session how weak I was, especially my arms. Well, I have room to improve!

Thursdat 29-11-07 – Basic Ladders

• 50 Jumping Jacks
• 10 Pushups
• 10 Squats

• Pushup Ladder – 1, 2…7, 8 = 26 total
• Squat Ladder – 1, 2…17, 18 = 171 total
• Diamond Pushup Ladders – 1, 2…5, 6 = 11 total

Main Target

• Pushup Ladder 1-10

Full Throttle Conditioning Has Arrived!!

Well, it’s arrived, and only after 3 days! How the postal service can be this fast I don’t know, but I’m not moaning.

I was planning to have today as a rest day, although in a minute I am going to do a short workout. I was planning no just relaxing, watching TV or playing some PC games. Instead, I watched the hour-and-fifty-minutes long DVD. There’s a quick review below, although it’s really just a brief summary of the DVD. For more info, check out Ross’s website. There’s also a lot on the forums about the DVD, so be sure to check them out!

It was great! I admit I didn’t take everything in, bit it’s split into lots of categories chapters, and I’m certain I’ll be re-watching some of them very soon. I’m yet to read the book, although I’m going to start it tonight.

Ross covers LOADS of conditioning aspects, with many different exercises shown my him, most of them with little or no equipment. He also talks about routine creation and some of the theories behind different routines and exercises. Topics covered range from the jump rope (with different techniques explained), burpees (and variations), other bodyweight exercises, explosive exercises, dumbbells, sandbags, kegs, water balls, sprinting and lots more. Yeah, the DVD has a lot of stuff!

Put simply, this is one of the best sources for conditioning info available. And for £18 (delivered to the UK), it is INCREDIBLY well priced. I really do recommend you get it. And no, I’m not affiliated in any way with Ross, apart from he has helped me in so many ways I feel I deserve to promote his excellence.

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Buy Full Throttle Conditioning at RossTraining

Wednesday 28-11-07 – Home Bag Work

In my last post, yesterday, I said I would probably not post another…post until Friday, as I was not intending to do another workout before then. But the minute I got home today from school I was out to the milking parlour (i.e. my gym) to do a workout lasting about an hour!

Where did this sudden burst of motivation come from? Well, when I was browsing the web after school (before my Dad came to pick me up) I read an article called How To Stop Procrastinating by Scott H Young. I often read his blog as he has some very good self-development articles, and this article looked interesting so I had a read. For those who don’t know, procrastination is when you should do something, or even want to do something, but just can’t be bothered to do it, and therefore don’t. I know I do have a procrastination problem, especially with school work, but who doesn’t? Well, it seems Scott doesn’t. In his article he writes about different forms of procrastination, their causes and how to bypass them. The first one is what I had – Procrastination from Drudgery. In other words, you don’t do something because you think it will be dull, time-consuming and difficult. One of his solutions was make the task fun and enjoyable. And then something hit me – Boxing ISN’T dull, but it IS fun. And sure it’s time-consuming, but if it’s fun it doesn’t matter. As for difficult, I enjoy a hard, intense workout. So there was NO reason at all for me not to work out…So I did.

After getting ready – Eating my post-workout snack of a banana, a hard-boiled egg and lots of water, putting on my workout clothes, getting my Gymboss, iPod, speakers, towel, boxing wraps, bottle of water etc – I went out. It was fairly cold, and it was wet, but it didn’t phase me.

I put on some music (Hardcore Nation 2, a fast-paced hardcore dance album) and started with a fairly simple warmup. I had nothing planned, and the floor of the milking parlour needs cleaning (it’s covered in stray, old dry cow shit, dirt, dust…), so I didn’t do any pushups or chinnies or anything which required me to get low to the ground. I started with fifty jumping jacks, then five pushupless burpees, then sprinting up and down the parlour (which is fairly short so there was a lot of rapid acceleration/deceleration/180° turns), and jogging around the parlour in an oval. I then did some five-second static stretches and 5-rep dynamic stretches.  I then did 5 partial standing wheel rollouts, as I hadn’t done any in ages!  I did partial ones by using a wall to stop be going further than I could get back up from, so instead of going all the way down and not being able to get back up I only went half the way down, but was still able to get up.  By now I was really hot and sweaty, so off came the jacket and second t-shirt I was wearing. So much for it being cold!

I felt like concentrating on boxing work, and I decided to use purely my bag (I don’t have a mirror for shadowboxing yet, and the bag was looking at me with puppy-dog eyes, craving to be used). I put on my wraps and gloves, and my mouthguard. Ross recommended to always wear your mouthguard when on the bag so you get used to breathing through your nose when boxing and just using the mouthguard in general. I set the Gymboss to time six rounds, two minutes on and one minute off. I was going for technique mainly, moving around the bag (as much as I could in the limited space), jabbing, throwing 1-2s and practising my newly-learnt left hook. Surprisingly I wasn’t as tired as I expected by the end, but I won’t lie, I was letting my guard down more than I would’ve wanted. But still, I was happy at how I had done.

After a three-minute break, I decided to do tabata punching. For those who are unfamiliar to the tabata protocol…You’re lucky. The tabata protocol is about highly-intense work followed by a short break- It involves twenty seconds full-out work followed by ten seconds rest. This repeats eight times, for a four-minute workout. Doesn’t sound hard, does it? You could do any punches, but the most common is the 1-2 (left jab-straight right), because that allows for maximum speed, which is perfect for tabatas due to the high intensity of it. Well, but the third round I was tired, after the full-power full-speed punching. I kept pushing through though, although rounds five and seven I slowed down to about half the speed, in time with the music, which I think was about two punches per second. By the end my arms were dead, but my legs still felt fairly fresh. And that just wasn’t on.

So, to the wall for a wall squat. Last time I managed sixty seconds before I couldn’t go on, but this time I set my Gymboss for eighty seconds. Twenty seconds went, then forty. The pain really started kicking in as I was fully contracting my thighs, pushing myself into the wall. It was eve harder to concentrate when I heard the lyrics of the song playing: “Gotta get up”, repeated over and over and over again. I got to the minute mark, and kept holding. About ten seconds from the end, the song changed…to “Music is Dancing”. I was trying not to laugh at how ironic it all was – There I was, trying to stay still, holding myself against a wall trying not to fall down or give in and stand up, and yet the music was telling me to get up and dance! This actually is a true story by the way, I kid you not. Finally the eighty seconds came about and the Gymboss gave it’s little beep. I stood up, and nearly fell over again! I staggered over and sat down for a couple of seconds to allow my legs a much-needed rest.

By now I noticed time was getting on, so I decided to call it a day. I walked around the parlour whilst doing some fifteen-second static stretches (which prepares your muscles for the end of strenuous physical activity), before heading in.

And it felt great! Although I probably won’t do another one like that tomorrow, I wouldn’t be surprised if I did a quick ten to fifteen minute workout.

As always, please comment! I’ve just realised I’ve spent an hour writing this post, so make my time feel worthwhile!

Wednesday 28-11-07 – Home Bag Work

• 50 jumping jacks
• 5 burpees (no pushup)
• Sprinting
• Jogging
• 5-second static stretches
• 5-rep dynamic stretches
• 5 partial standing rollouts

• 6x bag rounds – 2-mins on/1-min rest, skill-based

• Tabata punching – 20secs on/10secs off, speed-based

• 80-second wall squat

• Walking
• 15-second static stretches

Tuesday 27-11-07 [EBC] – Bag and Hook

Just got back from tonight’s boxing session, so here’s a write up of the sessions events.

To be honest, this wasn’t anything special.  We started as always, a warmup involving running and rope work (4 rounds, 2mins work x 1min rest).

After that it was onto the the bags.  We got into small groups (me and three others in my group).  One personwas holding the bag still behind it, while the other person was punching the bag.  The bag-holder had to put out their hands to make the puncher move – For example, putting out their right hand meant the puncher had to circle the bag counter-clockwise (i.e. going to their right).  The bag-holder could also present their hands as a target, which the puncher had to hit.  The rounds were about 2 minutes each, but it was surprisingly tiring!  We rotated each round, so the puncher became the bag-holder, and the bag-holder was able to rest until he was next punching.  You can probably get the idea by now.

When I was punching, the one holding the bag was the one who I last week referred to as a headcase.   He didn’t seem to get the idea of making me move, as he rarely stuck his hands out or moved, however much me or the coach told him.  And not once did he present me a target, even though I told him.  Oh well.  It was still fun, and tiring, and because I wanted to get the most out of it I was moving around the bag anyway (making him move!).  He wouldn’t keep his hands up either when he was the puncher, and wasn’t moving greatly – Again, it was move punch now everything else later.  Well, I don’t want to criticize him, he can learn the hard way if he so desires!

After that we spent around 10 minutes with partners doing the hook.  The parter held is hand up in front of him at a right angle, so his upper arm was parallel to the ground and his forearm parallel to the floor, with his palm facing to his right, horizontally in line with his head (I hope you can visualise this), then the other person simply hooked it.  I’ve never done the hook before, and really wasn’t great at it.  There was so much to remember though!  I could get the feet and twisting OK, but I couldn’t do that and dipping the hand before punching, leaning back, keeping my elbow at 90°, keeping my arm parallel to the floor…You get the point!  But I gave it my best shot (no pun intended), and will be practising it.  By the way, I wasn’t with the headcase (who really is a nice guy) so I could practice fairly well and my partner was giving me some advice.

Then it was the end of the session, so we ended in the normal way – A circuit of various bodyweight exercises in rapid succession.  The order was (if I remember correctly): Knee tucks, pushups, situps, burpees (no pushup version).  After the hooks my left arm had died though, but I pushed through.  Finally I did a cool-down, involving walking around and stretching.

I am going to try and get an extra workout in tomorrow as well, but if not I might not get another post until Friday at my next boxing session.

On a side issue, Ross sent me an email today saying he would ship the DVD/book today.  I’ll probably get it within a couple days.

As always, if you have any comments, any comments at all, please do post them!  I want to see everyone’s thoughts and advice.

Monday 26-11-07 – 5-Min Chinnies

Well, I didn’t go for the run on Saturday. I woke up bright and early, as I was going into the local city for some shopping. I was only planning it to last 2 hours max, but due to parents it took about 5. When I got home…Well, I can’t remember exactly why I didn’t go for a run. I’m pretty sure it was raining though. I’m nearly certain there was another reason, but I can’t remember it. And, as always, I’m now cursing myself for not doing it. But hey, you can’t change the past, I just have to look forward to this Saturday (when I’m not going into town!).

As for Sunday, I was working from the time I woke up until 5PM, and by the time I got home and had supper, I realised that a) it was school tomorrow and b) I had a lot of coursework to do, which I hadn’t even started. Plus, I was knackered after work. So no workouts on Sunday (although Sunday is normally my rest day anyway).

Wow, this really is starting to seem as a blog of excuses! I really must change that, and I swear I’m going to.

Tonight after school I had to go into town again, and didn’t get home until after 6PM. Once again, I had loads of coursework to do. I sat down and did it, but then decided I had to do a workout of some kind. Due to the time, it was cold and pitch black outside, so again I had to do an indoors workout, a quiet one so as not to dusturb my parents. I recently read about the 500 chinnies challenge on the RossTraining forums, which is basically do 500 chinnies as fast as you can. I thought this sounded great, as chinnies really get my heart going, plus they’re a good core exercise. Two birds with one stone, as the saying goes. The problem came when I actually started though – I couldn’t count how many I was doing! My mind couldn’t keep up. So I stopped, and modified it. This time, it was do as many chinnies as possible in a 5-minute time limit. This worked much better as I could time it with my Gymboss timer.

I wasn’t able to carry on for 5 minutes straight, and had, I would guess, about a dozen breaks in the 5 minute period. I only stopped when my heart felt like it was going to burst and I couldn’t go on though, and I kept the breaks short (most were about 5 seconds). When I restarted I went as fast as possible again, so I know I got in a large amount of chinnies. By the end I was hot and sweaty, but I felt great! Probably not the best idea to do it in my pyjamas, but oh well!

Anyway, the workout itself (warmup then main):

• 50 jumping jacks
• 50 ropeless rope jumps (same as rope jumping, but without the rope, meaning I can go faster without having to worry about catches)
• 60 seconds jogging on the spot
• 20 pushups
• 20 squats

• 5-minutes of chinnies

I have boxing at the Exeter Boxing Club tomorrow so expect another update then.

Oh, and as I side note I ordered Ross Enamait’s latest product, Full Throttle Conditioning, today. It’s a book and DVD dedicated to conditioning exercises, and if it’s even half the products his previous two were it will be amazing. And most of the people on the forums are saying it’s even better than his previous two, so I can’t wait!

Friday 23-11-07 – Mini-Workout

Firstly, good luck to everyone participating in my school’s play of The Magic Flute (by Mozart)!  It’s unlikely any of them will read this, but I thought I should put it in just in case.

Normally I would have had boxing training tonight, but one of the senior fighters had a proper match, so there was no training.  I nearly didn’t train at all today!

I’m in the Army section of the Combined Cadet Forces in my school, which meant for about 1:30hours at the end of school I was outside, talking about attacking and defending in urban environments.  This wouldn’t be too bad…Except the weather was freezing!  The temperature was low single-digit degrees celcius, and although I was wearing combat trousers, jacket and t-shirt, I was really, really cold.  My toes especially were cold – I could barely feel them.  When I did get home, it took my quite a while to cool up, taking in mind outside the house it was 0°C and inside it didn’t feel that much warmer, even with more clothes, socks, a hat and gloves on.  Add to this the fact I was really tired (I nearly fell asleep on the car journey home), I really wasn’t in the mood to work out straight away.

After my supper I went on the computer and did my normal stuff – emails, MSN, forums (RossTraining forums), Facebook, RSS feeds, etc.  I also checked on this blog, just out of interest.  I was tempted to give up and let it rot in the dead-blog-pile, to never post again, but when I saw I already had 45 visits in only a couple days – Including ones from search engines! – I decided I had to carry on.  And if I was going to carry on I didn’t want it to be empty and not updated, so I knew I had to do some kind of workout to post about.

Due to the  below-freezing temperatures outside, I didn’t go to my home gym (an old barn outside with no heating and no form of heat retention).  Instead, I decided to do a workout inside the house, in my bedroom.  Space is limited, so I stuck to a few bodyweight exercises.  My plan was originally to do twenty minutes of pushups, squats and chinnies, alternating with one minute per exercise.  But after the first round of pushups and squats, I was dead.  This was really unmotivating for me, making me feel crap and useless.  Back to the computer I went!  But after a while, I realised how pathetic that was.  I’m not in the best shape ATM, and quitting definitely wont help!  I don’t want to be stuck this way for my entire life!

So, I scaled down the exercises.  Twenty seconds each of the above exercises, rather than sixty.  I turned on some Rammstein and started working.  My target was to go for ten minutes, but after four my throat was completely dry and my heart was pounding.  I was stupid enough to only drink 300ml of water before the workout, and being as cold as it was my throat soon dried up.  I pushed on for another 2 minutes, but after six minutes my throat was really paining me and I was finding it hard to breathe, so I stopped.  When I got up my legs felt like jelly, but it’s not surprising taking in mind I haven’t done anything like that in ages, especially not in the cold.  I immediately went and drink a litre of water, which made me feel a lot better.

I actually learnt a lot from this workout:

1. Firstly, I’m not in great shape!  Although this sounds bad, now I can set myself goals and it’s motivation to work harder, so it’s actually a positive realisation.
2. Secondly, don’t quit!  Even if you feel crap, try anyway.  If it’s too hard, there is nothing at all wrong with toning it down.  Anything is better than nothing.  And if you feel crap before you’ve completed your planned workout, try as hard as you can to finish but if you can’t don’t worry too much.
3. Thirdly, make sure you drink enough!
4. Fourthly, working out in the cold is great, as it really does warm you up and get the blood pumping.
5. Fifthly, listening to Rammstein and looking at a picture of a hot, topless babe really does help!

I’m still planning on going for a run tomorrow, as long as it’s not too cold or rainy!
Here was my actual workout:

• 50 jumping jacks (warmup)

• 20secs pushups
• 20secs squats
• 20secs chinnies
• REPEAT 6 times

As always, if you have any comments at all don’t hesitate about posting.

Tuesday 20-11-07 [EBC] – First Time in the Ring!

Actually, I lie. It was my second time in the ring, although the first time it was body-shots only and it was nothing special. But more on that later!

It started off like all the other training sessions, with the warm-up and rope-jumping. The warm-up consisted of running around the gym and doing the appropriate action when it was called out: 1, left hand touch floor; 2, left hand touch floor; 3, jump; 4, change direction. After that we did three 2-minute rounds of roping, with 1-minute rest between round. As with my home workout, the first round I did the bounce step fairly slowly, the second alternate-foot step and the third bounce step as fast as I could.

After that it was time for the first group to do ring stuff, so we were allowed to do what we wanted. I did a few minutes on the bags, a few minutes shadow boxing, and also watched the sparring for a bit. Nothing major, just a bit of skill work and keeping warm.

Then, the other group (including me) were in the ring. Last time I was in the ring it was body-shots only, but this time it was head-shots too. Great fun, although I don’t think I did too well. I got a few hard shots and a slightly bloody nose, and I don’t feel I got in many decent shots.

I’ll quickly sum up how it went. First time in it was jabs only and second time straight rights only. In the jab-only round, I was against a guy who was taller and stronger than me (yeah, I know it just sounds like an excuse but it was true!). He got in a couple good jabs, and I think I did too. My jabs are damn weak ATM though, definitely need to train them.
Second round I was against what my coach afterwards called a “fucking headcase”. Put simply, he went in punching like mad, and took a lot of punches doing so (he was the first to get a bloody nose). I did get a few in, but I kept looking for a shot, whereas he was punching like mad. He would have won that round methinks.

But hey, it was fun. Bit shook up afterwards, but soon got over it. It wasn’t just me though, a lot of people got a few good shots because they weren’t defending well (or at all!).

I asked my coach what he thinks I should improve at and what I should practice at home…And he mentioned quite a lot! It was fairly obvious stuff though – Improve footwork, especially stepping in, punching and stepping out of the way. He said my punches need to snap more, which I agree with completely as I know mine are fairly slow, especially my jab. He also said just practice bobbing, weaving, ducking, stuff like that. I could also see something my coach didn’t mention, and that was aggressiveness. I wasn’t very aggressive at all, waiting for him to strike first or waiting for an opening which never appeared. I do think if I was more aggressive – stepped in with the punches without fearing stepping into a punch, throwing more punches and generally being more offensive – I would have done better. Something else to improve, eh?

Then we just did a cool-down, packed up and went home.

I don’t have a session next Friday, so I’ll be practising at home instead, and probably during the week too.

Jump Rope Techniques

I get these from Buddy Lee’s Jump Rope Training. It’s an excellent book, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who jumps rope. And I believe everyone should jump rope, it’s great fun and an excellent form of conditioning. So, basically, I recommend this book to everyone!

I can only currently only do two techniques, and to be honest I can’t do them very well. As I said in my first post, before boxing I did next to no form of physical exercise, especially skill-based stuff such as rope jumping. But now I’m doing it fairly often, I’m improving rapidly, and without meaning to sound arrogant I do think I am the best (or at least in top 3) skippers in my EBC group (the beginners group ).

Onto the moves. The ones I can well do so far are:

Bounce Step
This is the most simple one, just involving jumping up and down with both feet at the same time. By far the easiest, and the easiest to do fast.

Alternate-Foot Step
This is the one most boxers and wrestlers use. It is similar to the Bounce Step, although it involves alternating feet each jump. Harder than the Bounce Step, it requires more coordination, fitness, timing and lightness on the feet. Great fun though, and it’s the one we’re recommended to do at boxing practice.

Those are the only two I’ll cover for now.

First “A Boxer’s Blog” Workout!

Last post I promised I would go for a run today. Well…I didn’t. When I got home from school, it was dark, raining and cold. I didn’t mind the wetness and cold too much, but running where you can’t see where you’re going isn’t great. I suppose that’s a side effect of it being mid November and nearing Christmas. Looks like I’ll have to keep running for summer and weekends, when I’m free to do what I want! So, next run will be this Saturday.

Now, normally I would have just felt crap and not bothered doing anything. I would have come inside, turned on the PC and waste time on the internet doing nothing constructive. But I thought of this blog, and though “Hey, I don’t want to appear a pussy to all my adoring fans (yeah, right!).” So, rather than coming inside I did another workout. It was still conditioning, but it was anaerobic rather than aerobic. I got out my jump rope and went jumping (a.k.a. skipping). I was planning to only do 3 rounds, but once the endorphins got going I had to do more, I couldn’t resist it.

I did all my timings using my Gymboss Interval Timer. It’s a digital timer, allowing you to set two timers that run one after the other and repeat (from 00:01 to 69:59), with a round count, customizable alarm and vibration, all done with 3 large, simple buttons. I intend to do a full review of one sometime soon. If you don’t have one, I highly recommend getting one. Get one from Training Timers (where I got mine) or from Gymboss themselves.

Anyway, onto the workout itself:

• Warmup (about a minute of jogging and sprinting)
• 2-Minute Rope Jumping (bounce step), 1-Minute Rest
• 2-Minute Rope Jumping (alternate-foot step), 1-Minute Rest
• 2-Minute Rope Jumping (bounce step at fast pace), 1-Minute Rest
• 2-Minute Rope Jumping (bounce step at fast pace), 1-Minute Rest
• 2-Minute Rope Jumping (alternate-foot step), 1-Minute Rest
• 2-Minute Rope Jumping (bounce step), 1-Minute Rest
• 1-Minute Pushups
• 1-Minute Squats
• 1-Minute Rest
• 1-Minute Situps
• 1-Minute Wall Squat (fully contracting)

Nothing special, but I enjoyed it! When I came in my food was ready too – smoked fish, carrots and peas. Yummy!

Well, until next time, keep training and have fun.

Welcome!

Hi and welcome to A Boxer’s Blog! This blog is dedicated to my boxing and general training, and I’m planning on including write ups of my training sessions, a workout log, information on my fights, helpful hints and tips and more.

First, a bit about me. My name is James, I’m 15 and I live in Devon in the UK. Things I enjoy most are surfing the net, posting on forums, gaming, boxing, reading, cars, stuff like that. I like to think of myself as fairly outgoing and friendly, normally trying to find the positive side in everything.

I’ve wanted to make a blog of some kind for ages, but I’ve never really known what to do one about.   I knew I had to do one on a topic I am passionate about, otherwise I wouldn’t have any incentive to keep posting and enjoying posting. I don’t have many real loves, although my main one is computers. However, there are thousands of high-budget computer blogs and websites, so starting another is fairly pointless – Mine could never live up to ones such as IGN. So, I looked into other things I enjoy, and came up with cars, reading and boxing. I love cars, although being 15 I can’t legally drive, nor can I afford to own/run/mod a car, so a car blog is out of the window. As for books, I enjoy reading although don’t read that many books, plus a blog on books sounds fairly boring to me!

That left boxing. I’ve only been boxing for a few months, but I’m loving it. I’m not making huge advancements, but that’s mainly because when I started I was very unfit, having not done another sport in God-knows how long. One thing I do have is determination though, especially if I enjoy something. That determination has led me to push myself really hard during these sessions, rarely giving in to fatigue, and I can see my technique and conditioning improving. The beginning of my boxing at the Exeter Boxing Club was fairly rough, as I felt I wasn’t making much progress and that I wasn’t getting on with my coach. Yet I carried on through, and now I’m really happy I did!

A boxing blog is perfect.  Not only can I post about my sessions (making me think further about what I did, what I learnt and how to improve), I can also keep a log so I can constantly try to better myself.  I can also share my knowledge with everyone connected to the internet, hopefully helping a few people along the way.  Plus, it’s a place I can post about my highs and lows, so when I’m feeling low I can look back at my highs and put my feelings in a positive spiral.

My boxing takes place in the Exeter Boxing Club in Devon, England. Training is twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, which is when my training session posts will most likely be (although Friday one might be posted on Saturday, depending how tired I am post-boxing ). I also try to work out at home, but going from nothing to changing my diet, boxing and home training is quite a big leap! I first started home training when I first started boxing, but I was over-enthusiastic and ended up burning out (in other words, my mind and body couldn’t take it even more, making me feel crap and stopping). However, I have learnt a lot about training and nutrition, and have kept my diet going and am planning on starting my training tomorrow with a simple run.

Well, it’s getting late now and I have school in the morning, so I’ll post this and get back to you!  Expect my next post tomorrow, with news of my run!