A quick update
Sep. 8th, 2018 12:56 pmI forgot to say, when I was posting about my holiday, how everyone at the place where the weasels were boarding fell in love with them. It's a side business for the local pet/hardware store (about 5 minutes walk from my house) and there were people coming in just to see them, apparently. The woman who runs it now, who'd never really had anything to do with ferrets before, was also smitten with them. This makes future holiday trips significantly easier!
In fencing news, while my club was closed for a couple of weeks, I bit the bullet and drove to another nearby club to keep myself ticking over. I've now also joined that club, which means from last week I'll be fencing two nights running. The hope is that, since I don't have anything to do with the organising of things at Club B, I can just turn up and get some consistent epee coaching - I could have that at Club A but I have to remember to ask for it, then I get dragged into other stuff and it just doesn't happen. Clear evidence of my need to become more consistent was provided by my first competition of the season where I started off really well, almost getting into the top half of the list, but then blew it completely in round 2. I then lost my DE fight 15-10, dashing my hopes of hitting that particular unfulfilled target. My plan is to do roughly one competition a month this season.
In support of that, I've also changed gyms as I hadn't been going and my brain just got worse and worse about the concept of going in when I've not been there for a while. The gym I was with was also attached to a local high school, so while it was convenient, they only opened after school hours during the week and for 6 hours a day at the weekend. The new one is a bit further away but it's also cheaper and has more stuff going on, as well as being somewhere I can go in the day if I'm not working.
New term starts next week for us and my days have changed slightly - the first challenge is getting back into a routine after a few weeks of getting up whenever I feel like it and loafing around. I also want to get back into walking, though I've currently got a lovely planar wart on one foot which makes walking uncomfortable. It's better than it was, as I've been treating it, so hopefully I can get out this month.
In fencing news, while my club was closed for a couple of weeks, I bit the bullet and drove to another nearby club to keep myself ticking over. I've now also joined that club, which means from last week I'll be fencing two nights running. The hope is that, since I don't have anything to do with the organising of things at Club B, I can just turn up and get some consistent epee coaching - I could have that at Club A but I have to remember to ask for it, then I get dragged into other stuff and it just doesn't happen. Clear evidence of my need to become more consistent was provided by my first competition of the season where I started off really well, almost getting into the top half of the list, but then blew it completely in round 2. I then lost my DE fight 15-10, dashing my hopes of hitting that particular unfulfilled target. My plan is to do roughly one competition a month this season.
In support of that, I've also changed gyms as I hadn't been going and my brain just got worse and worse about the concept of going in when I've not been there for a while. The gym I was with was also attached to a local high school, so while it was convenient, they only opened after school hours during the week and for 6 hours a day at the weekend. The new one is a bit further away but it's also cheaper and has more stuff going on, as well as being somewhere I can go in the day if I'm not working.
New term starts next week for us and my days have changed slightly - the first challenge is getting back into a routine after a few weeks of getting up whenever I feel like it and loafing around. I also want to get back into walking, though I've currently got a lovely planar wart on one foot which makes walking uncomfortable. It's better than it was, as I've been treating it, so hopefully I can get out this month.
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