Last year, I managed to train karate a total of 79 times. My goal was to train twice a week for the year; excluding 2 weeks for vacations and such. That would have given me a total of 100 workouts. I didn’t quite make it. I averaged 1.5 workouts per week.

At first I was a little disappointed with myself, but then I got to thinking about the year. I missed a lot of classes because of my father’s 3 month ordeal with cancer, which caused me to miss at least one class a week. Then, my uncle suffered from the same cancer, and I missed several classes due to that. In addition, I missed several classes due to work related reasons. Overall, I should have really missed many more classes than I did. Fortunately, I was able to make up many of the missed classes by visiting my old dojo, and squeaking in instructor training sessions in St. Louis.

I’m not happy that I didn’t make my goal, but I am satisfied with it. I hope that 2007 will be a much better year for training. So far it’s turning out to be.