A FROG Was In My SHOE!

CAUTION: This post is NOT for the easily grossed-out!

Ug! I missed my workout this morning and I know I want to up my cardio to meet my fitness goal this week. So I went to do some cardio on the treadmill. When we train, we train barefoot, but for this I put on my gym shoes and socks.

My gym shoes had been OUTSIDE a couple of days since I had worn them to protect my toe the first day it was injured (it's scabbing and healing well; turned out to be pretty mild). I put them on, got on the treadmill, and after about a MINUTE I felt something squirm. Nothing major, but I didn't arrive just yesterday, so.....

REMEMBERING WHERE I AM, where small lizards can be in your kitchen, etc., I jumped off and untied my shoe and kicked it off with the other foot. I wouldn't go NEAR my shoe because I saw SOMETHING, then I saw it go back inside. I shrieked.

Some guy was just running around and stopped to check it out. It was an "off" time, so not many were in the gym. Yib and Carol were doing a VIP session (private), and stopped to wonder what was going on.....laughing.

The dude running around shook out my shoe. A frog was in it! About the size of a half-dollar, easy, in circumference, so it wasn't HUGE but it wasn't small.

I kept shrieking and hopping around, half-laughing, half in total shock, but definitely 100% GROSSED OUT. People have told me the frogs here are poisonous, but Danny (gym manager) came out and assured me it happens all the time around here and that they are harmless.

I went home and laid down, then fell asleep. I think the shock was too great to my easily-horrified system.

I napped all afternoon and missed training this afternoon, too! What a lazyass! Fortunately, I fasted today, though. Especially after eating some cooked (vegan) food yesterday after partying in Patong. I did go to dinner with friends (just to get out) and one of them is a new Norwegian dude who is totally ripped. He was saying he power walks for his cardio. So, I'm going to start doing the 4k route right here around the gym tomorrow, to add to my cardio. And definitely make it to group training, geeze!

I'm going to film a training session soon, just one round, but go easy on me folks; I have 20lbs to lose, it's the effing TROPICS, which makes everything tons harder, and I've only been a Muay Thai fighter like 9 friggin days or something, LOL! That way I can film it again in like a month and you can see how fast we come along.

Anyways, in summary, I told Danny I was going to burn my sneakers, but I'll probably just disinfect them. There was some pink on my sock from the damage the frog surely suffered. (EW!) Thank GOD New Balances are nice and roomy, but HOW COULD I NOT KNOW? At least with my flops, I know what I'm getting, lol! I'm having OTHER PEOPLE check my 2nd pair of sneakers, which has been inside since I got here, because I'm that much of a baby about third-world issues like this. I mean, the centipedes here are like 5 - 6 inches long. You don't see them often, but when you do it's already too much. I was going to film one, but they are just too disgusting to look at for that long. And I've only seen like 2 snails, but they are like 4 inches tall. Absolutely nasty, sorry!