Hiking and stuff

This past week I didn't work on Monday because of a holiday, so I went hiking on Sunday to El Cerro de la Silla. I had not gone there in a long time, even though it's close to my house. The last times I wanted to go it was either cloudy or I didn't want to wake up early. This time the day was perfect, the temperature was chilly and the sky was clear, so I went to take the bus that leaves me near the cerro.

The first part of the trip is through a colonia, and I think it's one of the hardest parts because it's very steep road. After that you get to the entrance or the starting point of the cerro, and contrary to the places we went on Portland, this one isn't as cool. There is a main road that workers used to take, so there are parts where they made concrete steps or a bunch of rocks. The rocks kinda suck because they can be slippery, but other than that, it's OK.

There are two main parts, you either go up to a tower (don't know if it's tv or radio broadcast) that is at the peak, or you go to a platform that is like around the middle of the trip(the Teleférico). This time I only went to the Teleférico since I was still a little sore from my race the week before.

It took me around 50 minutes to get up there and I took a few pictures, I felt short of breath and like I was doing some hard work, and it felt amazing. After resting a few minutes at the Teleférico and eating some fruit, I went back since I had some things to do at home.

That week I finally received a new PSU that I bought for my desktop, so after hiking I came back and took apart my computer, cleaned it thoroughly and changed the PSU. I changed it because the last one was making my computer crash when I tried to overclock both CPU and GPU, so after I put it back together, I tried to overclock both, and so far, it has been working perfectly.

5k Race report

This past Sunday I finally ran the race I was training for and it was amazing. But a little correction first, I posted a few weeks ago that I was going to try to do this in 20 minutes, I screwed, I was gonna write 25 minutes, one day I'll try run it at 20 minutes, but that's a little too fast for me right now.

Officially I was the 89th in the race and 11th in my category (30-39 years old) out of more than 2000 runners, and my official time was 24:16 minutes.

So, to be able to run at this speed and this time I trained since August, just after I came back from vacations, in which I finished another training program I had (10k in 55 minutes). For the 10k program I was running 5 or 6 times a week, it was hard and tiring, but it was easier than this other program.

I read that the key to be able to run faster is to do some strength training, not just running, so instead of running 6 times and between 40 and 55 km per week, I got a program to run 5 times per week and started lifting weights and doing strength training 3 times a week.

I was never interested in that kind of workout, but now I kinda like it, I felt the change quickly and I feel that it is amazing for my back, it hurts less when I have long runs and I feel like I have a better posture now. The only downside is that I felt the burnout just two weeks before the race, so I had to rest a little, and now that I finished, I decided to take a week to rest and start fresher my next goal... which I'm still not sure what it is.

Right now I feel like going easy until January, try to build more strength and run for fun. But knowing me, I'll might start a new program next week... and I know I can't just take it easy... not on this season... at least I need to balance all the food I'll eat next time I go to Juarez and the posada at work... and the tamales I ate last week... and... whatever I decided to cook for myself on new years eve...

Same race on November 2013 (10k)

Gaming and binge watching...

So, two weeks ago Destiny 2 got released for PC (it had already been released for consoles like a month or two ago). The game was made from the same studio that made Halo: CE, and as the former, it is a first person shooter, although this one it's more like a looter game, so it has some elements from games like Diablo and MMOs, which  means that it can have a lot of replayability, specially if you play with friends.

I have been playing it a lot... or at least what I would consider a lot, lol. Or I was until this past weekend when I started watching Stranger Things season 2... and I watched the whole season between Friday and Saturday. Really loved the show, although I do feel weird watching a whole season in just a few days.

I wasn't going to watch it yet, I wanted to play some more this weekend, but since on Friday I had to go and check a device (that's part of my job), and it was in a ceiling and I had to have one arm up for like more than half an hour, it died, it was tingling and numb, like when you have anesthesia. I got home and it was still all dumb and numb, so I wasn't able to play or work on something else, and that's why I started watching Stranger Things... and cliffhanger after cliffhanger, I watched the whole season.

The device was up there