Coach Kirstin

About 5 weeks ago I got an awful stomach bug.  Add that to being pretty lax with my diet and I had been thinking about doing a cleanse.  Then I visit NM and halfway through my visit, everything starts to make me sick.  I’ve actually had my share fair of stomach troubles from ulcers and stomach bugs carried back from studying in M exico.  A lot of it solved itself by cleaning up my diet.  But my diet hasn’t been the greatest lately.  In scope of the rest of America, its great but I try to c ompare myself only to the standard I set for myself.  And in that scope it was awful.  So I decided to do a cleanse. I actually did a colonic first to jump start everything.  It was a first and an interesting first at that.  I would actually recommend it to anyone but it’s an experience.  I would not recommend training after wards where we worked body shots.  Admittedly I know very little about clea...

sports·man·ship noun : conduct (as fairness, respect for one's opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing) becoming to one participating in a sport And its one of my pet peves.  I see it all the time but it still grates on me.  It reflects poorly on you, your school and even worse upon our sport.  I can't say I am above it but I try very hard.  Its also really easy to stoop down to someone else's level instead of rise above it.  I had my first mma fight in April.  Probably one of the best experiences of my life, despite loosing. Though it was slightly diminished by my opponent.  She failed to make weight by 7lbs.  I didnt care, I wanted to fight.  We went 3 full rounds.  Disappointing to loose but satisfied for a first fight.  Then the trash talk began.  There was a camera person following her into the locker room, where she proceeded to talk trash about our school, that we misrepresented me ...

I'm home in New Mexico visiting my family for the holidays.  I come home because I love and miss my family and friends here.  Otherwise, I'd probably never come back here.  It holds no special place in my heart.  Its a strange place.  I lived here for most of my life, we moved to NM when I was 6 and I left when I was 23.  There are strange neighborhoods and those that are a bit dangerous, its just part of living here. When we first moved here, getting used to the spicy food was an adjustment.  We came from steak and potatoes Montana, and in NM there is this chile (red and green) that they put on everything.  So going out to eat was initially a big challenge for the family.  But my dad had found this hole in the wall by the fairgrounds at Central and Louisiana that a coworker had recommend for fajitas.  Worst case my sister and I could eat a bunch of tortillas.  So off we go on a family dinning experience.  But anyone who knows...

I used to laugh at this friend of mine from training.  I’d text him after training and he would say he’s on the floor.  He’d been there since he got home from training.  I didn’t understand.  And then I found myself on the floor of my room last night and not wanting to get up. I laid down on the floor to play with the cat.  This has become our routine at night.  He’s waiting at the door when I come home, he follows me to my room where I put down my gym bag and then I lay on the floor to play with him.  Usually logic prevails and I get up after about 5 minutes to get in the shower.  ….20 minutes later I was almost asleep on the floor and was finding the floor unusually comfortable…   Obviously Im a bit out of shape.    

Last Saturday I got a bit of stomach bug.  Bit might be an understatement.  I had to pull over twice on the way to my hair appointment to get sick and once in the middle of it.  No I have no explanation for why I was so hell bent on getting my hair cut … So the only thing I could hold down was wh ite rice and ramen.  On a nutritional scale from 1-10, those are a 0.  But they did make me feel better .  This went on for about 4 days .  By day 4, my back was cramping from weakness when I would hold the hair dryer attempting to dry my h air. I had been feeding my muscles nothing for 3 days and they were revolting.  I managed to get some food down later that night, but still felt wiped out.  Today is probably the first day , I haven’t felt exhausted.  I joke that I would eat candy and drink coke ’ s all day if you let me, but I wouldn’t .  I don’t know how people eat crap...