Mirko “Cro Cop” Filopovic is one of my favourite fighters. We are both left handed, and primarily strikers. If I ever got a really good rear leg kick I was going to get “left leg cemetery” tattooed in Thai (ป่าช้าขาซ้าย) on my left shin. Sadly my kicks never got that good and more importantly I am terrified of needles.
Actually the only thing we have in common is that we don’t seek out the spotlight. While sparring, and running long distances don’t really worry me, doing the meet the “athlete” last week did, a lot. To the point I asked someone else to impersonate me and read my speech. They said no and I had to do it anyway. While not the disaster I thought it was going to be, I will not be pursuing a career as an after dinner speaker anytime too soon.
So what is the point of this particular blog entry? I will be running for charity, yet I probably ran away hardest just from making a speech in order to promote a run I was doing. Doing something that is worthwhile is often about doing something challenging. While this May 1st 10k will be difficult, and I will learn a lot about myself training for it and actually doing it, facing up to an unexpected and unwelcome challenge has taught me a lot more
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