I'm so glad to have found this tribe! I just took up running long ago and when I feel like I want to drop dead in the final minutes I put on the Superman theme on my walkman and I imagine myself sword fighting on ice-skates in a huge rink and it really pulls me through to the end. Now I realize I am ready to really pick up a sword and give it a try. I did take a very intro presentation to fencing last year but the swords were made out of that nerf ball material. You can't chop off a head with one of those. I need the real thing!