This month for Muslims is the holy month of Ramadan which means that I'll be very thirsty, hungry and near dead for the next month. It's one of the 5 pillar of Islam, and the reason we do this is to feel what it is like to be really poor i.e. going through starvation etc. It's meant to enlighten you onto what you have, and make you appreciate the smaller things in life; and trusty me, it really works - I haven't thought about any of my life's worries for the past 13 hours except how woefully empty my stomach is.

*Sigh* I really don't like it though and I can't wait till it's over, because I can't do training during the day (which is a big thing for someone like me) so I have to wait till the evening to eat, then wait till my stomach settles, and then train at some ridiculous time in the night which makes me more tired and therefore train less (last year I went running at mid-night alot. Problem was that I had this irritating police helicopter follow me around every time I went. Suppose you can't blame them really, I mean I was running at midnight wearing a black hooded top lol :P).

Anyway, where was I? Basically I have to get up around 4:40am, eat until 5:00am, and then 14 hours of empty stomach later I can fill my belly again at 7:00pm. For 30 days. I normally wouldn't mind but it's so hard because I cannot train as much...that is until I read a quote from the famous and upcoming British boxer Amir Khan (we share the same name!): "I'm fasting. I can fast and train at the same time - it's not a problem. I can still spar during the day and I hit my opponents very hard." If Amir Khan can fast and train, then so can I! Amir, for the next month, you are my hero!