Yesterday, I went for an hour and a half's session of Muay Thai. 

In my class, there are usually two girls (another girl and me), and about 9 or 10 guys, depending on whether they come to the class or not. It was a rather tough session, because we sparred for most of the time there. Today, it was the guys, me and one other girl. 

So, you'd think that sparring with the guys would be harder than sparring with that one girl? Nope. You might want to think again, the guys went rather hard on me, even though they're about twice my height. But wow, the girl was tough. She is the eldest there, around... 35? (The rest are 16 - 28-ish). 

I wasn't paying attention to when we were to start (I was too busy trying to make out what the punch bag had written on it), so she went in and punched me right in the nose (power punch), then gave me a hard upper-cut in the jaw (upper punch), followed by a punch in the stomach, then a kick in the shin. 

By then, luckily, I was protecting my face and temples with my gloves, and managed to duck-squat when she threw that kick. However, she still got away with those first punches - what an awesome combo to strike. 

So, I returned her favour by throwing a high kick at her head, but it didn't quite hit her temple because she was blocking her head. The fight wasn't really fair, seeing that she'd done Muay Thai for two years, and I've only been doing it for a month or so. Never mind, it was still a good round. 

Owch. My arms are aching, along with my back.... I think that I forgot to stretch after yesterday's class. Oops!