Another year is ending...
This time of year it seems traditional to review the previous year and work out if happy with it and what you might change.
It's been a very busy Judo year for me this year. Newly qualified as C ref, coaching, area committee commitments, maintaining area website (www.yhjudo.org.uk), competing.... in fact from September right through to early December I think every Sat/Sun was given to Judo.
As much as I enjoy most of these things and I do volunteer to do them, it's still nice to have a break. Coaching won't resume until mid-January when the students return then it's prep for our annual team competition. Talking of students... occasionally I get a thankyou after a session from one of the students and the last couple of years the student committee of the club I coach at has given me some beer to say thanks from the club. Just before Christmas I was given a nice bottle of Port from one of the guys at the club as a thankyou which I shall be enjoying this weekend with some mouldy cheese :)
I'd say I'm mostly happy with my Judo stuff this year, though competitive results could have been stronger. I think that having lost lots of weight I'm still trying to work out how my fighting is changing/should change. Down to 93Kg now from 105Kg in the summer. So I tend to be one of the lighter guys in the group now (I was never the heaviest! ;) ). "Only" another 4Kg or so to go and I can fight in the <90Kg group. That will be different.
So generally a good year. What about 2012?
Well I'd like to continue to try and pick up grade points (starting the year with 30 in hand), so obviously competing is required - maybe the British masters again. Getting under 90Kg has to be a target, having lost so much weight in the last 6 months it would seem a waste not to lose the last few to get under.
Having said that I need to be careful not to injure myself as I have secured a place in the 2012 London Marathon! No doubt that will help the weight loss as I do my training. If you want to follow my progress BTW you can at bensmarathon.com or on Twitter @bensmarathon of course the website has links to my sponsoring pages ;)
Well here's to another year of Judo, let's raise a glass to achievements in 2011 and to endeavours in 2012.
It's been a very busy Judo year for me this year. Newly qualified as C ref, coaching, area committee commitments, maintaining area website (www.yhjudo.org.uk), competing.... in fact from September right through to early December I think every Sat/Sun was given to Judo.
As much as I enjoy most of these things and I do volunteer to do them, it's still nice to have a break. Coaching won't resume until mid-January when the students return then it's prep for our annual team competition. Talking of students... occasionally I get a thankyou after a session from one of the students and the last couple of years the student committee of the club I coach at has given me some beer to say thanks from the club. Just before Christmas I was given a nice bottle of Port from one of the guys at the club as a thankyou which I shall be enjoying this weekend with some mouldy cheese :)
I'd say I'm mostly happy with my Judo stuff this year, though competitive results could have been stronger. I think that having lost lots of weight I'm still trying to work out how my fighting is changing/should change. Down to 93Kg now from 105Kg in the summer. So I tend to be one of the lighter guys in the group now (I was never the heaviest! ;) ). "Only" another 4Kg or so to go and I can fight in the <90Kg group. That will be different.
So generally a good year. What about 2012?
Well I'd like to continue to try and pick up grade points (starting the year with 30 in hand), so obviously competing is required - maybe the British masters again. Getting under 90Kg has to be a target, having lost so much weight in the last 6 months it would seem a waste not to lose the last few to get under.
Having said that I need to be careful not to injure myself as I have secured a place in the 2012 London Marathon! No doubt that will help the weight loss as I do my training. If you want to follow my progress BTW you can at bensmarathon.com or on Twitter @bensmarathon of course the website has links to my sponsoring pages ;)
Well here's to another year of Judo, let's raise a glass to achievements in 2011 and to endeavours in 2012.
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