The first week back is done. It rained a little but for the rest of the time it's been sunny and not super cold.

The first few days of training were brutal! I forget how hard we work most of the time. After your body adapts to the routine, it starts to feel pretty easy, relatively speaking, and you forget that it actually takes a lot of strength, stamina, etc to get through an average day here. Well after 2 months off, I've been unpleasantly reminded. By the 4th day or so though, it's already started to get better and I feel less like a clumsy elephant.

There are a few things that I really missed, noodle soup for breakfast, how peaceful the temple can be on a weekday morning (when there aren't hundreds of tourists), and how my body feels when I'm always moving it. There are lots of things that I can't stand though, but now I can count down, only 8 months....only 8 months....

Feels so good!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW7XMWLnizw