I just finished a crazy couple months worth of tournaments, which included traveling to destinations like El Salvador, Chile, and Miami. I never thought I'd be excited NOT to travel!
The last few months have been exhausting. Traveling, training, dieting, working, and drafting proposals for sponsorships and grants...it adds up. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from it, but I'm ready and excited for a break. It really is a time to relax, recover and regroup. Relax and recover are pretty self-explanatory. Regroup though, can mean so many things. So, let me explain...
The last few months haven't been challenging just because of judo; I've had some big life changes as well. I'm now single and moving into my new house next weekend. Change is exciting, yes, but scary as well. I'm excited to see what this new chapter has in store for me but incredibly sad and heartbroken, losing the future I thought I had in front of me.
So when I say regroup, it has to do with both judo and my everyday life. I'll use this time to reminisce, grieve, grow, train, succeed, fail, laugh, cry, and more than anything, to learn. I will learn about my true strength, where my weaknesses lie, and how to improve. What's great about this time is that I'm able to throw myself completely into judo and work; no distractions. I find a kind of peace now, when I'm on the mat doing randori or doing throws. It's refreshing. I can focus on hitting my next 2 goals: winning a World Cup medal and making the Pan Am Team.
Though it has been and will continue to be a challenging time, I'm happy I have the opportunity to use this time to learn from my last few tournaments and to heal, emotionally, from the last few months. I'm also proud of myself for using a bad situation as fuel to improve other aspects of my life. I guess I am growing up.... ;)
Onto the next chapter! :D
The last few months have been exhausting. Traveling, training, dieting, working, and drafting proposals for sponsorships and grants...it adds up. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from it, but I'm ready and excited for a break. It really is a time to relax, recover and regroup. Relax and recover are pretty self-explanatory. Regroup though, can mean so many things. So, let me explain...
The last few months haven't been challenging just because of judo; I've had some big life changes as well. I'm now single and moving into my new house next weekend. Change is exciting, yes, but scary as well. I'm excited to see what this new chapter has in store for me but incredibly sad and heartbroken, losing the future I thought I had in front of me.
So when I say regroup, it has to do with both judo and my everyday life. I'll use this time to reminisce, grieve, grow, train, succeed, fail, laugh, cry, and more than anything, to learn. I will learn about my true strength, where my weaknesses lie, and how to improve. What's great about this time is that I'm able to throw myself completely into judo and work; no distractions. I find a kind of peace now, when I'm on the mat doing randori or doing throws. It's refreshing. I can focus on hitting my next 2 goals: winning a World Cup medal and making the Pan Am Team.
Though it has been and will continue to be a challenging time, I'm happy I have the opportunity to use this time to learn from my last few tournaments and to heal, emotionally, from the last few months. I'm also proud of myself for using a bad situation as fuel to improve other aspects of my life. I guess I am growing up.... ;)
Onto the next chapter! :D