Here's a nifty article about helping African penguins with fiberglass igloos (perhaps burrow is more correct) - manmade habitats to provide suitable nesting conditions, in order to bring their population up...

I loathe gym talkers. You know, those people who come to the gym to socialize, not to exercise. Well, one such freak seems to have latched himself on me...

From National Geographic online: Baboon "Gangs" Run Wild in Suburban South Africa

I just read a very interesting article about black economic empowerment in South Africa and its relation to the wine industry in the Western Cape.

There weren't that many people who showed up to Krav Maga training tonight, so the instructors took advantage of all the space we had in the training room to do tumbling drills - front rolls, front and back combinations, over (hop over and roll) and under (tuck your legs dammit) barriers, rolling towards an attacker and having to do a counter attack, only to roll towards another attacker and have to counterattack... good fun, though I'm still feeling kind of dizzy and my floaters are going cr

It's been three weeks since I've been to Krav Maga training. I had some kind of freaky cold and couldn't train the week before going to South Africa (I wrote some JEs about it in fact), and then the two weeks in South Africa where the primary activity was wining and dining the RoF...

Not quite sure how I feel right now... this was probably the best holiday I've ever had, and at the same time it's kind of nice being back here. We'll see how I (and RoF) feel after getting up at 6 am to go to the g-y-m, with the following return-to-work routine, the rest of the t-r-a-i-n-i-n-g routine, the d-i-e-t (damn, the food there was so good, and the portions were so huge! And don't get me started on the wine!)...

...since boyfriend of tuxette has a Diners Club card and access to the airport lounges...

After a fantastic two weeks in the Cape Town region, we're on our way home... *huff*...

Trip report and pictures (10 GB worth) will come eventually...

btw... RoF is extremely bloated and happy ;-)

...managed to do a 40 minute cardio workout this morning... and in 24 hours I'm going to be somewhere other than here ;-)

tuxette is very happy...

I tried doing some cardio this morning. After 30 minutes at an "easy" pace, I was feeling kind of dead. Usually on Tuesday and Thursday mornings I do 40-45 minutes of steady-state cardio, at a higher intensity than I was doing today, and I always feel refreshed and energized afterwards, not tired...

*sigh*

My endorphine high, that is...

I'm doing a little better today but I'm still too sick to train. Being sick combined with not having that high I get when I do my early morning cardio is making me feel rather lethargic. I don't like feeling lethargic... :-(

I should be OK for tomorrow though...

How are you all doing?

Not cool: waking up at 1 am drenched in sweat, with a slight fever and a nasty sore throat. Oh, and I sneezed my retina to death. Lovely.

Less cool: waking up at around 5:55 am (usual time actually) and still feeling like crap. It's the sore throat that's especially troublesome. It's kind of hard to breathe as well. There goes my morning workout :-(

...between these guys and these, um, guys...

*gets popcorn*

After more or less purely physical training since Krav Maga started in August, we finally had a "relaxed" training tonight, with lots of technique work. Sure, we did "stress" stuff at the end, but it wasn't as "stressful" as usual...

The technique stuff included lots of blocking work, meaning I'll have lovely bruised forearms to show off tomorrow ;-)