I had a complicated relationship with fitness
Back when I was in the university days fitness was the least of my concerns. I couldn’t even run 2.2 mile which was such a small distance but I didn’t have the energy or the enthusiasm to do it.
When I came to the US for masters. This one time, I went Canoeing with my friend in lake tahoe on a cold winter day and my canoe flipped. Sadly I couldn’t get back on the canoe because it got too much water inside of it. Now I asked my friend for help but there was nothing much he could do to help me out so I had to swim all the way back to the shore in Icecold water. I am still not quite sure what gave me the courage and the strength to reach the shore but I would have to admit that fear of death certainly played a part. Facing certain death from hypothermia was so intimidating that I really learning how precious life is. I realized that my life is very short and I can’t waste a second of it. I can die any moment and I have make the best of my life.
My experience with death
I started taking fitness seriously
In order to conquer my fear of water, I went to the middle of the ocean between Alcatraz Island and San Francisco, where I swam last year after teaching himself to swim and celebrated true freedom in the ice-cold water along with the sharks with tears in my eyes and saltwater in my mouth. This is what life means to me, challenging myself, growing in this paradise called earth, and experimenting with the truth!
I believe that in life, if eating, sleeping, and exercising are cleared out and mastered, everything else falls into place. So I have a very strict discipline around these three things.
Aiming for the Ironman
After I got laid off from my job. I decided that I could use this opportunity to make something amazing out of my life. I decided to finally run an Ironman marathon without much training and in hindsight it was one of the best decisions of my life.