Had my first "real" exhibition fight...at 35.

I've only been doing Muay Thai for two years; fighting in a smoker was not on my 2025 bingo card.

I was the oldest (and smallest) fighter on the docket, but pushing my limits in a martial art always teaches me something new about discipline that I can apply to basically everything else I do in life. At first I "didn't have time" to commit to the entire 3-month training regimen. By the week of the fight, I was consistently training five days a week, for up to 3 hours a day. So what did I learn?

I regret to inform you that if you wanted to, you would. Now that I've got my free time back, I'm committing to writing for 60-90 minutes a day, every day. (And it doesn't even give me bruises!)