The Weekly Warfare   Musings martial from across the SCA

Once-a-week practicing continues.  Work has a nasty habit of sitting on Tuesdays and squeezing the breath out of them.  Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, too.  Thursdays, also.  But Thursdays are sacrosanct. In lieu of making practice on Tuesday, I hit the gym on Wednesday and did 35 minutes of cross-country on the stationary bike.  Not great, […]

Happy New Year!  A real brain dump is in the works on my notebook in front of me, but it’s not gelled quite yet, so meanwhile… Back to practice last night after 3 weeks off.  I still am apparently < 210 lbs, even after the holidays, which I can really only attribute to stress metabolism.  […]

Had to skip Tuesday due to work sucking my soul out so thoroughly I needed to sleep for four hours. I made up for it with interval training on Wednesday, which left me less sore than I’d expected. Showed up to Thursday and only one other fighter showed.  Tres sad.  However, that other fighter was […]

(Real post tomorrow) Made two practices this week.  Fought Charlotte, Roz, and Benjamin on Tuesday.  Hit the Kappellenberg practice on Thursday.  Need to keep working on the buckler game. Still stressed from work, still cranky. Thoughts: When feeling flabby and cold, warm up more. Don’t waste the time fighting badly and off a step because […]

(thank you for reminding me, Mattheu) Not much in the way of fighting this week, due to work being a pain in the butt (again).  No post-Turkey Day event, no Tuesday practice because of work issues.  So by Thursday I was sore (my muscles get sore if I don’t fence), stressed, and cranky.  Perfect time […]

I’ve been trying to keep a journal of my notes on my fencing from practice and events, but haven’t been doing a particularly good job of it (last entry was a month ago, where I wrote “If I do not move my feet I will die” five times.  That actually helped).  So I’m going to […]