So since there are two of us hopefully blogging about our adventures over the next two ish years, I'll go with an introduction about me, and then I'll go bug jess to go write up an about her page.
As you know, my name's Kelvin, but Kel works just fine, I'm your typical twenty year old asian kid going school here at University of Calgary, doing my BSc. We'll see where that takes me. As a kid growing up, I got signed up to do a lot of things, soccer, badminton, track, piano, chinese school, karate, speech arts etc..... pretty much anything that a typical chinese parent could sign up and force her to kid to do. Through this my parents unknowingly fostered a highly competitive individual within me, and I've always lived by the idea that stuff is more fun winning. To this day, I still carry that mentality, but it's more so that I'm having fun when I'm doing well, it doesn't have to be necessarily winning, or being the best. But you feel a lot better, like when you blitz a timed distance faster than you ever have, or when you climbing up a hill and your legs feel great and you feel weightless.
I consider myself a relatively athletic individual, but I could always be more so, but I guess I like to ride, I like to run, I used to swim a lot, but I haven't really don e a whole lot of that in the past little while, so that's going to have to come back soon. I like eating a lot, probably more than I should, but I still managed to stay relatively unfat, thankfully. My family (mostly my mother) has always had a tradition of running the Forzanni's mother day run, and I used to always do the 5 k one, not willing to run more until one year I finally decided to do the 10k, and now ever since it's been something you do every year for fun. That's how my running started.
As for the cycling portion, I have my brother to thank for that, he got a road bike last year, which I had the unfortunate privilege of christening it with it's first crash, but once again, another story, another time. This summer, I finally got a road bike, I'll introduce you to her in some post later, and man was I ever SLOW. Like you have no idea, I rode really slowly, but it finally got better, I still have a lot to go, but at least now, I can hold a decent pace, still need to improve to catch up to my brother. Rode lots, and I got hooked. Until then, keep on reading this blog and learning about the musings of Jess and I as we embark on our adventure.
~Kel
