This week has had it all, Tuesday night was looking really grim, Shelly's mum was seriously ill but the tough old northern bird that she is, she managed to get through a 10 1/2 hour heart op and we went to see her yesterday and she was laughing and joking with us! I wish I looked as good as she does in her 70's after a trauma like that!
Did the fitness test today for my black belt grading and it was good fun, really hard on the upper body, was disappointed with the press ups, even though I knew that was my weakest area, really wanted to get past 60 on that one. Got really stuck into the sparring and couldn't help but stick a couple of jump back kicks in :)
Came back with the sun shining to pick up a voicemail from Shelly's mum telling her she was being moved to a general ward, she has the nickname with the ICU team of 'little miracle' Hopefully things will look up from here on in for Shelly and looking forward to the black belt grading to show what I've got.
Can't finish this post off without saying a massive congrats to Shirley, the other black belt candidate. This mature librarian attacked the fitness test and blew it apart, showing the younger memebers of the Academy that they have zero excuses now. I hope to see a massive improvement in the attitude towards personal fitness from those guys as Shirley is a prime example of just getting on with things and having a zero excuse mentality, true black belt spirit if ever there was!
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