After 11 days of depression and alcohol induced lay-off from my training, I was able to go to Ultra for my sport, Muay Thai last Monday. However, my plan of just having pure training was snuffed out when Kru Robert, the president of Muay Thai Asso. of the Phil. (MAP)-the National Sports Asso. for muay thai, invited me to run with him at the track. Not even my excuse that I don’t have any running shoes prevented him from coercing me to run. Perhaps he thought I’m Abebe Bikila the Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist who runs marathon barefooted.
I’m trying to avoid any conversation with Kru Robert because he will just pester me with questions about the MAP committee that I head and that a lot of work has to be done specially that kickboxing is now a medal sport in Asian athletic meets. And then all conversations with him woud lead to stories of how he was able to move heaven and earth for muay thai and kickboxing be accepted by the Olympic Council of Asia as a medal sport. Fortunately, Beck arrived for the training and I got an excuse to go back to the gym.
The lay-off did its toll on my body that I am already running on an empty gas tank by the 2nd round of doing the thai pads. To think that 3 weeks ago, I was doing five 4-minute rounds of thai pads in Fairtex with just 1 minute of rest in between. Now, my cardio is so low that after two 2-minute rounds, I am already gasping for air. What made me survive to do 5 rounds is that there’s a 2-minute rest period in between rounds.
