Something my ex-boss often did was volunteer my services to colleagues without consulting me first. Even though it annoyed me to no end, I rarely said no – my boss was a relative, but also, helping teachers meant I was indirectly helping the kids. One day though, a particularly demanding colleague came to me and …
Category: Impressions
2021… Looking back
A couple of days ago, I downloaded an app to compile the 9 best images on my Instagram page. I did it twice and it came up with exactly the same images both times. Eight out of the nine images are tied to what has been the biggest highlight of a very difficult year - …
Challenges Part 7: Competition
Crossfit seemed like the natural next step in my fitness journey. Competing was not even a thought, much less a goal. But any time you can combine something I love doing with a good cause, I'm in. I've had my own struggles with mental health, and training is one of the main things that helped …
Teamwork makes the dream work
Word of the day: PARTNERPART A - 25 minute time capYou go, I go30 rounds3 deadlifts3 burpees over the bar20 rounds3 squat cleans 3 burpees over the bar10 rounds 3 clean and jerk3 burpees over the barPART BEach partner has 2min30 to establish:~1RM jerk ~1RM front squat I'm a numbers girl. It doesn't matter what …
Sweat 1000 – the R8d version
How do you cause pandemonium in the gym without actually being in the gym? You send weird, cryptic clues in the group chat, ask people to guess the workout and watch the cray cray unfold. That was how today started, before I even got out of bed. The one thing that was established was that …
Challenges Part 6: Crossfit
It's been a month since I officially joined R8dfit and what a ride it's been already. This past month has been a rollercoaster. Some weeks I felt so great and some weeks (like this week) just got me down in a big way. I'm realizing that the rollercoaster is more because of the way I've …
Thick Skin
I entered work very cautiously this year. There were so many changes that happened in rapid succession...all of which had the potential to stir trouble. Things started to stabilize, and I felt myself growing more and more relieved that the collective objective was winning over any individual agenda. Over the past two weeks though, individual …
Z is for Zen
Zen: a state of meditative calm One of my biggest challenges in life is finding ways to achieve this state. Life is so fast these days, and I constantly feel like I'm forgetting something (which results in the direct opposite of zen). The one thing I know for sure that helps me feel calm is …
Y is for You are what you eat
For the past few years I've been experimenting with different eating plans and diets. The first and most extreme change I made was going completely gluten free for about two years. A friend of mine had terrible food allergies and I did this in solidarity with her. I started (oddly enough) in the month of …
X is for 10 things about me
X is always a hard letter to write about. So I let the Math nerd in me come up with something...and here we are. X (10) odd facts about me... 1. My proudest atypical accomplishment: I did this when I was eleven years old, and till today I am super proud of it... I could …
Inky Impressions 