Back to the training.

20^th December

After recovering from Phuket it was time for the morning run and training. My body was well tired, but I took it easy and survived. After few days off I also had much more energy and power to punch the pads, it fell good to let it all out.

I even surprised myself: I didn’t now I was able to kick as high as someone’s head. Hlukhin, the trainer made me try it and after repeating many time that I think I can’t do it, I gave it a go. What an awesome feeling it was when I kicked the pads very high with a lot of power. I sure need to try it again!

After all the training last week my body seems to had enough… again. My ankle is hurting and the runs are getting more painful. Sometimes even getting up from sitting I loose all the support from my ankle and almost fall over. As there are only few days to go I don’t want to give up and have the days off. Hopefully my ankle will recover over Christmas.

I also got a nice bruise on the side of my right knee. For few days it hurt while I was running, but it’s getting better slowly. I did knee with the same knee again into the other trainer elbow and now the bruise looks even bigger. I took a photo for you to see. 

Secretly we all here are proud of our bruises. Weird I know.

On Saturday Hlukhin and Lisa arranged us a farewell dinner. I’m leaving on the 22^nd, Alena on 23^rd and other soon after. We had a nice dinner all of us with plenty of seafood to go around. Very nice night indeed.

Phuket

15^th December

Congratulations to Chris and James for winning their fights. James managed to knockout his opponent; the happy boy was jumping all over the ring with joy as he only needs to win four more fights to be sent to Bangkok. It was interesting to watch him preparing to the fight; he was so calm and also a bit happy, not nervous at all. I couldn’t handle it that well, but I guess he’s born to be a fighter.

Chris’s fight was against an Australian guy, who seemed to be much bigger than Chris. After poor fighting and a nasty elbow on the cheekbone Chris however managed to survive the fight as a winner. All he needed was twelve stitches and he was ready for some celebration drinking. For me it was very nerve-racking to watch him fight; all the hits and elbow he got, it was a surprise he won.

One of the fights that night was a French girl against a Thai girl, an unfair fight if you ask me. The poor Thai girl was half the size of the huge Frenchie. I guess as a girl it was easier for me to relate to the fight and its unfairness; I could feel the pain of all the kicks and punches. The Thai girl didn’t have a chance.

After the fights and the stitching we all went for a night out in crazy touristy Phuket. Few hours and many drinks later it was time to take poor drunken Chris back to the hotel and head back to party some more. Overall we had a lot of fun that night; the trip back was however less pleasant. I was pleased to get back to the island and get some sleep, pity to miss the afternoon training, but it had to be done.