2 days in a row of 8 AM wakeup calls...

Like I said yesterday, I have the sleep habits of a teenager.

I got up early again today to go to a class at the gym, and then spar after.

When my alarm went off, I rolled over. Usually, I have no problem getting out of bed on Sundays for class.

After I dragged my butt out of bed, I had a quick breakfast of egg whites and cheese, and then drove to the gym.

I felt tired and crappy, and I couldn't stop yawning.
Gretchen and Sonic both told me that I looked like crap (thanks guys!) and I told them that's how I felt.

I made it through class, and my left shin started to hurt a little, but I stretched it out before we started sparring, so I figured I'd be okay.

I figured wrong. I sparred one 3 minute round with Aleks, a pro boxer that sometimes comes on Sundays to spar with us, and  about 2 minutes into it, I was dying.

This is Aleks and I sparring at the Costume Sparing event - hence my Wonder Woman costume!

I managed to finish the round, but Aleks beat the shit out of me, because that hurt less than moving out of the way.

I've got another cute little bruise on the bridge of my nose, similar to the bloody beatdown of 2010. Knuckles and I were sparring on a Wednesday night, and we both just started throwing hard punches; going in for the kill, aka totally beating the shit out of each other.

When we spar on Wednesdays, we just spar for practice. We are still making contact - still throwing hard punches - but the main objective isn't to see how much you can make the other person bleed.

Well, that night with Knuckles, we forgot that and ended up bloody and bruised. It was a great round, but incredibly painful. We both ended up brusied and bloody and it kind of scared Zach.

Ever since them, my nose hurts after a couple of direct hits, especially hits from Aleks.

I can't wait until my shins are better and I can run away from Aleks' powerful punches, my nose will be so happy!

Thankfully, I am going to the doctor tomorrow, and I can ask what the hell is going on with these shins, because I am sick of it!