Hello all!
I have an apology to make, I didn't even come close to finishing Blogmas (orginally bookmas) due to poor preperations and spontenaity. Next year I promise to plan it at least 3 months in advance, set in my calendar and everything!
Now that we have swiftly moved on passed blogmas/bookmas 2019 is slowly approaching us.
Along with the new GoodReads reading challenge I plan on doing something I saw someone else do on YouTube.
In 2019 I plan on training like Emma Carstairs from The Dark Artifices series created by Cassandra Clare in 2012. As i said before I found a similar idea on youtube by the creator Sanna Vander with her video "I Trained Like A Victoria Secret Model For A Year" and the experiement intriegued me greatly.
I mean I am a book blog and so doing a challenge liek that couldn't be done under the category that my blog is posted so like I had planned to do during blogmas, I decided to choose a book character I am obsessed with and eat and tarin like they do. Of course this challenge sin't going to be easy, Emma is a shadowhunter and has runes that could never work on a human like myself so my stamina and strength is going to be less than Emma.
In terms of who Emma is, this drawing of her in 'An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters and Denizens of the Downworld' is a good representation (and you can imagine that Julien was the one to drew it too!);
There is elements of Emma that I may not be able to upkeep; read: she trains witha short sword...
but I've also written a word doctument on the information that I found without all the faff.
Workout Routine
She runs 5 miles every-day (lived in the institute
since she was 12, Lady Midnight marks Emma as 17 – 4 years.
2009,
365 x 5= 1825
2010,
365 x 5= 1825
2011,
365 x 5= 1825
2012,
366 x 5= 1830
1825
x 3= 5475
5475+1830=
7350 miles)
"The sky above the ocean
was streaked with the pink and rose of sunset. Emma slowed from a run to a jog,
gasping, her heart pounding in her chest. Usually Emma trained in the
afternoon and evening and ran in the early morning, but she’d woken up late
after staying up nearly all night with Christina."
Emma also trains for three hours in the afternoon doing Hand
to Hand combat (on glass! No thank-you.) and learning free running (jumping and
landing from high distances)
In the evening it is unsure how long she spends doing
this but it is assumed that she spends her evening practising with a short
sword (Cortana).
“She wondered how many
miles she’d run up and down this stretch of beach in the years she’s lived in
the institute. Five miles a day, everyday. And that was after three hours at
least in the training room. Half the scars Emma had on her body she’s put there
herself, teaching herself to fall from the highest rafters, training herself to
fight through pain by practicing barefoot – on broken glass.”
Appearance
Emma is often seen as beautiful
and extremely attractive. She has brown eyes, long, pale blond hair, wide
cheekbones, a pointed chin, and pale skin. As an effect of working
extraordinarily hard at her training, her body is strong, tough, and scarred.
She has a deep scar up her right arm, which she got when she was young for
hugging her sword Cortana.
§
Emma is left-handed.
§
Emma hates video games.
§
Emma does not like coffee, but she likes the
feeling of holding a hot mug.
§
Emma has a trunk full of her parents' belongings,
including the suit her father wore to his wedding.
§ Emma's
middle name, Cordelia, is shared with her own
mother's and that of a distant Carstairs ancestor, Cordelia
Carstairs.
§ Emma
was meant to have dark blue eyes before it changed to brown.
Cortana
- Cortana is a short-sword that has been passed down through the Carstairs family for many centuries. “I am Cortana. The same steel and temper as joyeuse and Durendal” – Enscribed on the sword.
What I may be able to do
- Running. I am already training to complete a 5K by the end of January so the running is something I can do.
-
Krav Maga!
There is a women’s only class in Liverpool on my Internships day off at only £6
a class. Pretty accessible and I’m already looking at alternatives for when I
move to London in September!
What may not happen
- Short Sword training. From my research a lot of people say to truly gain the skills and knowledge you need to find a teacher (although in Krav Maga they can move your training to have a weapon so it’s a maybe). Just making a Cortana out of wood and bashing it around with some choreography is apparently frowned upon… If you have any tips or know of a way to learn that’s not expensive hit me up!
UPDATE: I found a few places that teach
long sword fighting and a place in London that teaches Sword and Buckler (it’s
a single hand sword fighting!). £15 a session and I’m only planning on doing
one or two sessions a month.
Everything I’ve put a note down on in London
is going to be metaphorical due to not knowing my University timetable.
In
terms of diet, here is my list of ‘restrictions’;
- Lactose (lots of lactose free variety though!)
- I don’t eat meat due to the environment, but I do eat mostly veg with Quorn every now and then.
- I want to try and lower and sugar intake that has risen since giving up caffeine and Emma doesn’t like Coffee but likes holding onto a warm cup!
So in terms of how this year is going to work, I'm unsure. What I do know is that the #ITrainedLikeEmmaCarstairsForAYear is going to be a common tag on here!
I will be doing videos along side these posts that show me as I am recording them whereas writing means I have to process my thoughts, each video will be posted below the blog post.
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