I decided to consolidate all of my blogs under one umbrella so that it’s easier to maintain. That means that this blog here is going under a category in my main blog! If you have been reading my blog, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
My new blog is at http://mrsuan.wordpress.com/
I’m afraid there was a mistake in my last post about my weight. I am now 84.6 kg, and the last post saying that I was 83 kg was due to the fact that I took my weight on carpet, hence distorting the load a little. I think I lost a little more weight from starving in Switzerland, but it seems that I have more or less reached a plateau around 85 kg. Still running, but the weight does not matter as much anymore. I feel that I can take on a 10-K run comfortably now. I should go back to Singapore fitter than before =)
I’m not sure if anyone actually follows this blog, but if you do, you would realise the lack of updates here. It’s definitely not because I haven’t been exercising! In fact, I just found out that I have lost 5 kg since I came to Maastricht. I was around 88 kg at my heaviest in Singapore, and now I am at 83 kg after meals. WOOT!!!!
I have been taking advantage of the good weather here to do more running around the track, and playing more ball sports with my friends who are here. I guess the healthy diet thanks to my girlfriend really helps too. Just knowing that I lost weight motivates me to do more to lose more!
Well, if you are curious how much I ran, here’s a chart that I got off my Nike+…
I did another 6.18km in 39:49 mins here in Maastricht. I think I am going to make running quite a regular affair here =) Lost 2 kgs here because the food here in Maastricht ain’t exactly the best in the world, and everything is rather expensive =/
Those of you who don’t read my other blog must be curious as to where I have disappeared to since my last post. Well, I am on student exchange in Maastricht University! You can read all about it here. But that doesn’t mean that I am giving up on my Spartacus Project!
I did a 4.83 km in 30:45 minutes. It was great to start running again after staying in for so long due to the cold weather. Looking forward to more runs!!
For those who are curious, or who simply want to gloat, there is the IPPT slip eternally recording my failure. The words “Try harder next time” seem to be laughing at me, telling me how loseristic I am to have failed.
I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE MY LOUSY LUCK. OMGWTFTTFM.
As I walked the Walk of Shame back from Khatib Camp, I wondered what went wrong. I did the gymming, I did the running, and yet I still failed my IPPT. And it was the station that I gymmed for to boot. Yes, it was the PULL-UP station. I was one rep away from passing, but the PTI decided that my one rep was not to be counted since I kicked a little. Doesn’t matter that half the people there do more vigorous kicking than me and get ignored. I guess Luck comes into play in IPPT as well, and I am just down on it this year.
So yes! RT here I come next year! I don’t even know exactly how this will work since I will be overseas until July and my IPPT window starts in May.
I guess this is another wake-up call telling me to exercise even more. Can you imagine I used to be able to do 15 pull-ups effortlessly? This is crazy.
I just read on NYTimes that Starz has found a replacement for the role of Spartacus in Liam McIntyre. It remains to be seen whether McIntyre can fill the large shoes of Andy Whitfield, but I guess everyone deserves a shot. The article also mentioned that Andy Whitfield wrote to Starz to express his desire for Spartacus to continue as a series even in his absence, so as a fan, I shall support it too!
Here’s the article.
Turns out the Nike+ App in my iPhone isn’t that accurate after all. I took it running at the neighbourhood park, and after running for 2.4 km according to the ground distance markings, the app only registers a meagre 2.0 km. And I know for sure that it’s definitely more than 2.0 km because I ran 5 rounds of more than 400 m distance. Arghs. This throws a spanner into things for me because now I have no real idea of how I am doing in terms of fitness for my IPPT.
If I follow the markings, I ran 2.4 km in 12:39 minutes, which is a FAIL by 19 seconds. I guess the only real way of telling is to go run at the track instead of at the park… but still, it’s frustrating to learn that all the distance I clocked in the past was probably inaccurate. >:(
This past week has been very discouraging for me because of the number of people who have been saying that I am fat. And it’s really a no-holds-barred kind of thing where they just immediately launch into “I think you are fat”
I think it really started with sending Tan Long off and his mum commenting that I “put on bulk”. Then there was the JC class gathering I was talking about where Weiss didn’t hesitate to say how fat I am and how I look like Lester. And then there was Edmund who told me today that I look even fatter than I was during Rag, and TYL with her fat jokes.
Just yesterday, my auntie, uncle and the Filipino maid all commented that I “fatter ah?” when I went to my grandma’s place.
Which really makes me think: “If exercising gets me ridiculed and gets me fat, why do I even bother?”
A check this morning with the weighing scale confirmed my fears. I gained 1 kg instead of losing anything. My diet has been normal and constant, and I really have no idea why this is happening. =(
