The Zen of Ultra Running

To summarize the 2nd week of the Spring semester in three words - tired, out-of-shape, and (already) overwhelmed. I had another big deadline on Friday that I spent all week working on it. After that big deadline, together with a long teaching & meetings day on Wednesday, I felt drained and lost motivation to do anything. I was so mentally and physically drained that I skipped all prescribed workouts on Thursday (then, felt like sh*t that I missed the workouts). On Friday, I managed to go to the gym and did some strength training. Saturday was the Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) so my husband (Chef P.) cooked the traditional Chinese New Year food at home on Friday night (duck, fish, noodle, etc). It was delicious. It's been 14 years that I did not celebrate the Chinese New Year with family but we always do our own "celebration" at home (mostly eating a lot of traditional food). On Saturday, we went out to run the Buzzard Day course in Hinckley. The trails ...

Happy New Year 2020! As usual, we spent our Christmas and New Year in Asia. We went to Sri Lanka during Christmas and came back to Bangkok, Thailand around New Year. Sri Lanka trip was really fun and it's a beautiful country to visit (especially if you are Buddhist). We spent 4 days in the mountain visiting different UNESCO World Heritage sites and 2 days surfing in the South. It was the first time that we'd been to South Asia and we totally fell in love with that part of the world. We will definitely go back. Maybe we will visit India next time. Picture: We took a beginner surfing course at Weligama Beach in Sri Lanka. Great way to spend Christmas. Then, we came back to Thailand 2 days before New Year and I went to a beach town with my family and spent the New Year with my family. In November, I found an ultramarathon in Bangkok called "Ultra Park Run Thailand 100" on January 5. For some reason, I thought it was a good idea to run an ultramarathon in Bang...