That's me in the red headgear. Bonnie "Queen B" Mann is my trainer (in the black headgear). She's a world title holder, recently retired and now running an LA Boxing and getting our small boxing team ready to compete in the spring.

I've been boxing now since the summer of 2008, slowly getting into shape. I still feel every one of my 43 years, but love boxing and can't wait for my first amateur match. I'm planning to fight in the Master's category (read: old people -- 35 and above) as a junior middleweight (152 lbs).

In this video, I've just finished a one-hour workout, and this is the first of five two-minute rounds we followed our workout with.

I hope by this summer I will not look and feel so slow and wooden in the ring, and hopefully I will get better at keeping that right hand up to guard against all Bonnie's left hooks.