I am currently in Los Baños, Laguna with my officemate, who is my partner from the Marketing Department. We’re staying here for the duration of our fieldwork this week, which will involve traveling all over the province of Laguna. We finished covering the area of San Pablo City today despite the uncooperative weather. Work-wise, I’d call it a productive day.
Fitness-wise, it’s a pretty good day, too–I was able to fit in three sweat sessions! I started the day with this early morning interval training workout from BodyRock.tv:
This was promptly followed by the Body Slimming Workout from Blogilates. Overall, I felt pretty good about my morning workout.
The highlight of today, however, was my return to Taekwondo training. But before I continue please allow me to quickly tell the story behind this. I first took up Taekwondo back in my hometown of Iloilo when I was 12 years old, in our neighbor’s dojang that was an extension of their house. What started out as an occasional hobby over the years became a passion for me, culminating in me joining the varsity team of my university when I reached college. Varsity training was done every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, sometimes even way past that. I enjoyed our trainings immensely. Needless to say, my varsity experiences gave me some of my best memories and fully cemented my love for the sport. And hey, I was even team captain for a while.
This is me, back in the good old days of varsity.
Even after graduating I still trained on occasion and helped out at Taekwondo events whenever I could. When my work took me back to Iloilo for a three-year assignment, I would visit my old dojang–sometimes frequently, sometimes not–and attend practice, which was held five days a week.
When I learned about my new assignment in South Luzon, my first thought was, “Yay, I can revisit my team and my alma mater!” True enough, in the months since I took on this assignment, I’ve made it a point to visit the university and train with the team every Tuesday and Thursday, as long as I was just in the Laguna or Batangas area. But because varsity training is influenced by school curriculum, once the semester ended, training had to stop too. The team had its last training in the fourth week of October.
Semestral breaks usually last from three weeks to a month. University classes resumed last week, and that happily meant the continuance of Taek training!
Me and my warrior girls, during college days.
It felt good to stretch out my legs and get kicking tonight. More than that, it was great to hang out with the team once again. I fully enjoyed our two-hour sweat session and I’m so looking forward to the trainings in the coming weeks.
