Category: OneHeart Challenge

One of the ways that I have been getting my miles in is riding around my neighborhood. Specifically, going up and down parking garages. I am lucky enough to live just a block away from the UC Davis Medical Center, and there are three different parking garages within it. I have been going on my … Continue reading “More Mileage!”

This test has obviously been a big part of my life recently, but another thing that has been a big part of my life in the last year or so is my involvement with teaching classes at the dojo. I help teach the Tuesday and Thursday core class every week, and I teach the Saturday … Continue reading “Teaching Classes”

Today is February 24th, and nine years ago on this day, I started my training at Zen Martial Arts. It’s truly surreal to me that I have been here for nine years, especially considering that that is a little more than half of my life. Of course, I have changed a lot in the nine … Continue reading “Nine Years”

Over this weekend, I participated in my JROTC’s Bataan Death March. Every year, we do the Bataan Death March in honor of the thousands of American and Filipino POWs who died during the Bataan Death March in 1942. In April of 1942, the Japanese forced 78,000 prisoners to walk 65 miles in brutal conditions. Thousands … Continue reading “Bataan Death March”

I finished my second book for my black belt test! This book is called “The Laws of Simplicity.” The book is essentially about how you take your chaotic lives and try to make them simpler. It talks about how hard it is to drop old habits in order to create new ones, but how important … Continue reading “The Laws of Simplicity”

Last week was Thanksgiving Break, so I got a full week off of school. It was really nice to get a week off of school and work because it’s been pretty stressful with how many hours I’m away from home each week. I tried to take it as a way to reset a little bit … Continue reading “Thanksgiving”

Last week, my family and I took a trip to Disney Land! The last time I went to Disneyland, I was five years old, and now I am seventeen, so it has been a very long time since I last went. This time was much different than my last trip. It wasn’t waiting in lines … Continue reading “Disney Trip”

As I approach the end of the first month of my test, I am feeling much more comfortable with my daily numbers than I did when I first started. It has still been an incredibly difficult month, because even though I was already working out before the start of this test, it was not anywhere … Continue reading “One Month Update”

This past week, I have been more focused on getting my pushup and situp numbers in. Very quickly into the test, I fell behind on my pushup and situp numbers, so I have been working towards getting them back up. Assuming that I stay on track with what I am doing now, I should be … Continue reading “Color Guard”

After finishing my second week of this test, I feel a little better about how I am doing on this test than I was last week. The first week was hard with trying to find the balance between school, teaching classes, regular karate classes, homework, and also getting in all of my numbers. I think … Continue reading “Balancing Life”