#vegan lifter

Yesterday I hopped on the bike after work for about 20 minutes. I asked my coworker how long an active recovery session should be. His words were “think of it as a self love session.” So as soon as I wanted to be done I stopped.

This morning was speed work. Since intervals were last week I did a Fartlek run this week. Definitely happy with it. I think it’s my favorite type of speed work. And like a mad man I hit a leg session afterwards.

Hey y’all. Skate night was canceled last Thursday due to rain. It was a bummer because it decided to rain right at out meet up time, and only lasted about 20 minutes 🙄 It’s all good though, I remember getting some cooking done with the time I found myself with.

Still been interning, still been working, still been staying active. Went on a run Sunday which was very nice. I’m proud of myself because I wanted to have a run on the shorter side and now that’s becoming closer to an hour for me. Spent the last five minutes of the run pushing the pace. After keeping it slow and keeping my heart rate low, that last minute sprint feels so good. I say this often but HS me would be so amazed and proud. I am itching to run more and improve. My coworker (also a professional track athlete) says I should start competing to see where I’m at. That’s definitely the plan/goal eventually. I think I’ll know when I want to sign up for one, I should actually start looking for when they happen!

Hey, didn’t realized I haven’t posted since my last skate night. Skate Night was fun, of course! A lot of new people came out and that’s always nice.

Did another long run today, set a new time for longest run duration. It was very chill. I usually run the trail the group skates on so it’s nice seeing it from another perspective. I’m realizing though with these long runs I could probably start them from home now instead of driving out to the park 😅 I would’ve been able to run to the park, hit the trail a little, and then end up at home at the end. Next time.

Hey everyone!! Been a while since I threw some gifs on here. Probably because it’s been a while since I’ve done some lifting. My new apartment will have a gym so I’m holding off on buying a membership. However I have dumbbells here at my mom’s place so time to get back into it.

Just did two full body circuits. The top gifs show the first circuit and the bottom, the second. The second one was ROUGH don’t let the gifs fool you. Glad it got done though. Almost didn’t post my squat gifs because I felt I was going too low but a quick google search says it’s okay?? Idk what to think anymore. Of course some links will say, “yea that’s fine,” and others will say, “not the most effective squat but still fine.” I usually try to stop at parallel though, next time. I’ll blame it on not squatting in MONTHS 😅

Hey y’all! Been working out but been bad about posting! Screenshot some past workouts to show what I’ve been up to. Went for a run today! It was a speed run and also my first time doing a tempo run! I hated it 😅 The tempo run was fine I guess but the coach was like “We gotta practice running while uncomfortable” and I was like “uh oh.” Wasn’t sure how fast I was suppose to be going but it was faster than an easy run so I guess that’s good enough. The part that sucked was running back to my car. I ran the whole run in one direction and I was gassed on my way back, had to walk/run. Pretty much turned into a distance run at that point 🙄 When I got back to the park I went to a place to get water but they had a Vegan Chilli Cheese Burger on the menu so you know I had to try it. The plan was to make a burger when I got home anyway. The selfie is while waiting on the burger. It doesn’t show how disgustingly wet I was from my own sweat, I was the only one in the restaurant though.

Had skate night again! We saw a deer. Kinda bummed though my skates are giving me issues, trying to troubleshoot because I really don’t want to buy a new pair, these ones aren’t even that old!

Hola,

This morning I realized I might be more addicted to my watch than I thought. Drove all the way to the gym just to realize I didn’t have my watch. At first I was like “oh whatever, I just need my body to work out,” but before I pulled into my spot I was like, “I’m going back.” Reminded me of this Spongbob meme, very accurate to what I felt 😂 I’d like to think that if it wasn’t a free day for me (no work no school!!) I wouldn’t do that.

Anyway we went to the gym. The owner was there. He asked me to do pull-ups with a client he was training. I love when he does that, I’m always happy to stop my workout to do his. I’m just glad he trust me enough to work in with his clients. It’s a good thing it was leg day for me!

Hit up Costco afterwards, which makes me so happy and sad at the same time. Like, I know all this food would cost SO MUCH MORE anywhere else, and no one has bulk like Costco, but watching the number go up while scanning is sooooooooo annoying. I know it will last me a while though 🥲

Hello! Just got back from a Long Run, first one in a while. Listened to “First Long Run” guided run on NRC. Happy with my effort.

Over the weekend me and C took a trip to Denver! It was awesome. The main reason we went was to go to Meow Wolf. We were about to go to the one in Santa Fe, but we heard the one at Denver was way cooler! Pictures won’t show just how cool it was to experience it with your own eyes. I definitely recommend. Warning though it is very stimulating in there. Other than that we had good food, and also ran errands like going to Ikea and the Nepresso store since neither are in C’s city.

Hey y’all,

I hope everyone has been well. I have to backtrack. That upper body workout was Wednesday night. I remember smashing that Brunch Burger a few hours before that. Lifting at night was weird but I wasn’t mad, gym was pretty much empty. Trying to use my skates more. Telling myself I can find time at least once a week to improve so I went Thursday night after class. It was nice, some other skaters came and went. At one point some skateboarders came with a speaker blasting EDM, very nice. I stayed up late that night because I was skating for a while and came home to meal prep that ramen. No regrets about that though, I’m actually heating up the last of it now.

Other than that been pretty meh. Dealing with a sore throat. Was coughing more yesterday so I guess it’s getting better? Decided to take the day to rest since I felt pretty uncomfortable coughing all day at work yesterday (with a mask on!)