Bye, bye base

AM entry. I went for my first run in two weeks this morning. I just did a steady state run to get started, none of the fancy interval stuff. Yikes, although it felt pretty good overall, I've definitely lost a lot of my cardio base. Then again, it could be the fact that I was out a little late last night, celebrating Lauren's birthday with her hubby Kelly and Dr. Robin. While doing a little disco dancin, ran into a couple guys from the crew team, so felt a little better about being out so late. Nevertheless, I'll have to really gear it up so that I'm at a point where Wendy's coaching in January won't be wasted on me just trying to catch up. I also met a fellow last night, Callum, who sold me on doing some cross-training in boxing. He's an actor from NY whose done some stage fencing, is pretty athletic all around and has a background in yoga too, so his comments on how boxing helped him with focus and responsiveness really caught my attention. Boxing might be a good way to exploit and channel that street fighting feel I get from epee. Speaking of which, my right chest and arm have turned a nice shade of green-brown-yellow. My how bruises age so beautifully! I either need to get some padding for these areas or work a lot harder on not getting hit. Stay tuned...epee tonight at Salle Auriol.

PM Entry. I went to Salle Ariol to do some footwork tonight, but discovered when I arrived that the coach had a cold and wouldn't be doing the footwork portion. Because I was coming down with something too, I didnt' feel like doing any full on fencing, so I turned around and took it easy for the night. Should be back to normal on the 4th at Wallingford.