V’s Journey

Well Murphy was screwing around with me too while I was trying to blog about my splendiferous, porntastic transformation.  And I had pictures and everything…

 I will repost my splendiferous, porntastic tale of transformation at a later stage.  Instead I’m posting two versions of a song that is totally inspiring me at the moment. 

First version is the original… and this will make you want to run.  Watch the video.  Second version will make you want to run faster (it’s the Tiesto remix).  Boom. boom. boom.  Love base!

RUN RUN RUN!!

Ulitmately, you run your own race.  People can join you along the way.  But YOU begin it.  And you FINISH it!

Now RUN some MORE

This morning I had an awesome boxing session.  Worked hard. 

Got to a point where I understood why two sweaty men would cling to each other. 

I was clinging to the bag. Push away.  Keep pushing.  Gloves up Lady!

I enjoy pushing myself but I LOVE being able to work with the instructor.  It’s one thing hitting an inanimate object.  Quite another working with a fast, living, breathing, tall man.

There’s probably a proper name for this so bare with the novice boxer… my favourite exercise today was situps where everytime you come up, you hit the pads.  And count up. 

So first situp,  you hit one one.  Down. 

Up.  Combo, one two.  Down.

Up.  One.  Two.  One. Down.

Up.  One.  Two.  One. Two. Down.

Until you’re hitting the pads ten times.  And then you do it backwards to one.

It kills your abs.  It kills your shoulders.  It basically kills you.

First time round, I sucked.  Second time round I killed it.  Excellent speed and power. 

And then I had to roll over onto my stomach to get up off the floor.

I walked out of gym, depleted.  Satisfied. 

As if to endorse my fantastic workout the radio was playing a song about me.  I love songs about me. 

Have a fantastic weekend, all you foxy people!

Life can sometimes just be ho-hum.  We get into the routine.  Work, family, training, weekend.  Repeat.  And repeat…

But sometimes, something really cool happens.  Something really cool happened for me.

I have made fantastic friends on BodySpace.  Really great friends. Good people.
I’ve always been a little sad about one thing.  That I am so far away from all these wonderful people that I cannot meet them all in person.  I am tucked away here on the other side of the planet.  New Zealand, in case you didn’t know is very far away from well… the rest of the world.

So you can imagine my joy, yes JOY! Woot! And excitement when one of the BodySpace friends let me know they were going to be in New Zealand.

Most of us (I think) have had some experience with meeting people on-line but then being disappointed when we meet the person in real life.  Either they’ve posted 100 year old pictures of themselves or let’s face it, their on-line personalities are just waaay better…

I am very glad to report that I have exactly the opposite experience.

Let me introduce you to my BodySpace friend who has become a friend in real life:

Jake Sawyer.   http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/jakewsawyer/ 

Right, so not only is Jake one handsome dude.  He is also a seriously cool, generous, humble guy.  Who knows his stuff.
I’ve been hanging out with him.  Or rather he has been putting up with my stories.  And my bad jokes (I’m horrible at telling jokes.)

Jake is out here to train with another really great guy, IFBB Pro Moe Elmoussawi, who incidentally finished no. 10 at Olympia this year - check him out here http://contest.bodybuilding.com/bio/33/

How awesome is that?    Just when life gets a bit ho-hum, a BodySpace friend will show up to make things a little more interesting.
Oh yeah.. if you’re ever in New Zealand you’re welcome to call me… I’ve got lots of stories to share… ask Jake. 

Because I like it.  And it got me through my run today.