Enter the Mudder.

Evening Mudders, how have you been? I know some time has passed since my last blog. This was due to a 3-week work trip to Hong Kong. Now this trip could very easily of derailed all of my previous six weeks hard work. Hong Kong is a city that does not sleep and caters to every vice a man or woman could want. Booze, check, we had a free hotel bar with free cocktails from 5 to 8. Food, Check, it seemed every third building was a restaurant of sought. Finally a fully stocked mini bar within reach of my bed filled with bags of peanut M&Ms (my personal kryptonite) calling me and tempting me on a nightly basis. So I can hear you asking with baited breath did I submit to the BELLY and pig out 24/7? Am I now back bigger and slower than before?........
Nope I managed to “just say no” the M&Ms (most nights) say no to the Booze (well apart from the one night in Hard Rock) and keep to the heather choices on the menu which to be fair were many. I managed this gargantuan task by being inspired by the people of Hong Kong. They like their number one son Bruce Lee kick a lot of ass. On my morning runs at 6 am (the only time the humidity was below 100%) I found the local parks filled with people of all ages practising Tie Chi, Running, Boxing, Aerobics and even Crossfit (which I have now dabbled in but that is another blog).
The most spectacular sight I saw on my runs was an army of 30 odd 50-70 year old ladies practicing for about 40mins with Chinese’s broadswords (they are not light). They cut the air in perfect symmetry back and forth slicing and dicing their imaginary opponents. I ran the track in that park four times each of the weeks I was in Hong Kong and those sword swinging ladies were there every time at 6.20 you could set your watch by them. Impressive, to say the least. This taught me two things. One we should never mess with the Chinese, not only are they the largest economy in the world they also have army’s of Ninja Nana’s at their disposal. Secondly, just like the people of Hong Kong I need to make fitness a part of my life, embrace it and not look at it like a chore. It’s part of my lifestyle and I choose to embrace it. How Zen.
Anyhow I have been instructed by my editor (the all powerful Si) to keep the blogs to 400 words so that is it for this week. Just my stats to go…..

Stats 5 March 2012 (End of Month 2)

Weight 110 that is a nice drop of 6kgs and 3.5Kgs in Hong Kong.

Run time and distance 35min and Distance is up to 7km which is nice

Chin Ups 4. With my new Personal trainer (again another blog) I hope to drive these up to 20 soon.

Days to Tough Mudder 69 days a sexy number for sexy time.

That’s it from the Big Guy TTFN Mudders.