I have been neglecting this poor journal....

I have been fencing very irregularly since my last entry. Work basically just ate my lunch from mid-July until late November... then we got into the Christmas break period.

We did train in Mannheim the last two weeks, and are looking to train regularly again. I overstretched a hamstring a bit last night (front leg).

In other news, Istvan has gotten a full time job as fencing master for a club in Basel, Switzerland, which is really, really good for him, but will probably reduce the number of Saturday lessons I get. It is a bit of a tear--I've been training with him for over ten years.

I am hoping work stays under control now, and I can train regularly. I am reluctant to even begin to try to frame goals other than go to training at least once a week, given the enormously disruptive experiences I've been through over the last couple of years.

And yes, it is good to fence.

(I've been taking lessons with Alex--they are pretty much the standards that I've written about any number of times before, so I'm not going to detail them here anymore, unless he throws in some new elements--it is not that they aren't really good lessons, and they aren't really repetitive because of their extremely combative nature, but there really isn't anything in them that I haven't written about before.)