My journey in sport started when I was young man playing Hockey and Soccer, I always enjoyed sport when I was younger but never excelled at team sports, I didn’t like relying on other people to not make mistakes. When I was in 8th grade I was introduced to boxing, I was not a huge fan of it at first, but eventually it grew to be my favourite thing to do.
Boxing has taught me a lot over the years, discipline, work ethic, mental control, and that you get back what you put in, I believe that the skills I developed boxing help me excel in every other aspect of my life. I have 25 fights and continue to fight and train; my goal is to be a Canadian National Champion.
Through Boxing I was introduced to running, I was told by my coach to start running to make me a better boxer and give me better cardio, I didn’t like it but did anyway. I started running short distances 4km inside, on a treadmill. Eventually a friend from work started running again and we’d talk about running, after a couple months I started following his lead and running outside, and it was great, 2 years later and I’ve started running more and more and gotten better and better. Running always takes second place to boxing for me, but when im injured and can’t box I start running more and when I’m competing and boxing more I run less to avoid overtraining.
I unfortunately injured my shoulder and had to get surgery so that I could continue to box, while waiting for surgery and during recovery from, I doubled down on the running, 100km+ weeks for months straight and when I couldn’t run rate after surgery I’d walk as much as I could 80km+ weeks of walking.
In solo sport a lot of people are quick to tell you what they’ve done, are doing, or are going to do, weather it’s through social media, conversation, or another means. I believe that you should shut up and just do the work, talking about it doesn’t make it anymore real the effort, time, and dedication you put in will show in your results and that’s all that matters, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to win every fight or race but if you ask yourself “Did I do the things I set out to accomplish aside from winning?” And if the answers yes and you won,
great, if the answers yes and you didn’t win, then you know what you can do to improve and can rest easy knowing you put into practice the things you’ve trained, because weather you tell everyone every single thing you’re training or you just tell them the goal, the results are still going to show the real effort you’ve put in not what you’ve told people.
