And I suspect the ratio of one to the other is too heavily weighted towards thinking. I wake up thinking about my upcoming fight in the morning, think about it as I drive, when I am running, and pretty much every other moment that I am not fully engaged in something else. Its ironic but the moments when i am not thinking of it at all is when I am training, particularly sparring or hard pad work, I am all there for those things. Office work, less so. My thoughts oscillate wildly between confidence and excitement, tactics, to-do in advance of the fight, fear, and certainty that I am in over my head.
Training is going well, and I am starting my last hard week before my weight cut. Friday was particularly tough when I sparred with other students, clinch sparred with my trainer (and he beat the hell out of me), had hard pad work, and some serious "body tampering" wherein my fellow students took turns throwing round kicks and shovel hooks to my unprotected mid-section. I suspect my trainer is going to take it way up this week and I need to arrive really ready for as hard a training session as I have ever experienced. I have no way to gauge his confidence in me, but he is damn sure doing his best to prepare me for the fight.
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