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  My last participation in a running competition was in 2018 when I and a friend were together running at an event 6k running, at that time I ran regularly at least 20 km or 9 miles per week. I was on top of endurance, and my friend too. That year I was in my senior year at the university and I mixed my class days with my off days usually going out to run. I didn't wear the ultimate and soft shoes at that time, but my technique of running was good, I ran with an average pace of down 4'20 per kilometer. I was weighing around 60 kg. Now after 4 years of absence and then all type of circumstances happens during this time, I came back to the competition, now I weigh near to 75 kg but the most of my weight is muscle, with a small quantity of fat. My best tempo during my training was 4'30 per kilometer, and constantly I have been improving my tempo running. This 1st of May will be the day that I will be putting to test all my efforts throughout these months of sacrifice and const...

  On the past 26th of April, the Embassy of Japan in Ecuador published on their Social channels the opened of the applications for the MEXT scholarships, I was preparing to apply for months of anticipation. The deadline will be until the next 27th of May. Now, I am reading carefully all the parameters and requirements necessary to apply this year, but I already have the main documents prepared with anticipation. Before this application, I previously applied to the USA embassy and I was pre-selected for the next round, but unfortunately, I didn't pass to the next stage. That gives me another perspective on the time to send my application, I have to have into count that I am applying with hundreds of profiles many of them better than me. So, I have to highlight myself to the rest of the people if I want to have a chance. Last year I applied for the same scholarship, but I have to say, that my level of English was not the best at that moment, this time I am better prepared and with a ...

Previously I've been talking about my exercise workout and how it helps my mind and body, improves my health condition, helps my capacity to feel exhausted, and improves my humor. But If we mix these benefits with a good diet? One of the pillars of good wellness is the diet, what we eat is linked with our health and physical condition as well, if we don't have a well-balanced diet we are not going to reach all benefits that bring the food. Starting from breakfast, for most, one of the most important meals of the day, we must ensure we intake enough quantity and quality of nutrients, vitamins, and proteins, for these we must intake a good food and be sure that we're eating fruits and milky products, and some of the protein that our body needs.  At midday, you can eat some light, or drink your favorite hot drink, I usually eat some of the protein with tea or yogurt mixed with cereal. Try to not overload your stomach with processed foods and instead of that try to consume more...

Whoever ends their studies at the university or any other college, the first thing that is always heard is to make a cv faster as it can. Having prepared the cv is important because this document contains the information about your professional achievements and certifications and studies compose it. You try to redact it carefully, using the correct layout and combination of colors and designs, to make your cv highlight to the rest of the other people. So, when you finally end to make this, you now are ready to share it with the laboral world. But what happens when you are sending your cv to the companies that you applied for a job? Anytime you have wondered how many cv did you send since you end your career? I personally don't count them, but, since I finished my bachelor's degree I presume that would be around a hundred of them, maybe more. I have changed many times the structure of my cv, changed the model, add new abilities, more designs, reduced the unnecessary information,...

It was 2020 since the last time I went to the college to go to work,  it would pass 2 years since then, everybody knew what happen during this time, so, the college closed down its facilities until all these problems disappear. During this time, multiples changes were done to the university, a new bus station, new buildings and crosswalks, the interior of the buildings have changed too. I only had seen these changes through social networks, but I didn't have the opportunity to see with my own eyes how the college has changed. So, I decided to go there and be a witness to these changes, I went with a friend who was a little insecure to go because he felt nervous and uncomfortable about returning to our alma mater. After that, we had decided to go and see how the college was, so we walked to the college and between jokes and laughs we came inside the new bus station, it was really impressive, a big building that counted with parking slots, escalators, and lifts give us a welcome to t...

  When I talk about music is impossible to choose just a few handfuls from my playlist, honestly, I listen to a big variety of songs and genres, is often hard to choose just one of my favorite genres or artist, it depends on how I feel I choose my music, but here few of them: - Chillhop: when I try to focus on a specific task or want to relax after a hard day. - Rock: I barely listen to rock nowadays, behind stayed the good old days when I put on a playlist of hard rock while I did workouts. Usually, that made me feel energetic. - Pop: the typical hits that everybody listens to sometimes. -Ballads: when I want to hear good lyrics that describe my emotions. - Rap: Ultimately happens the same when I listen to rock, makes me feel more enthusiastic and full of energy, also the lyrics mixed with a lofi and jazz rhythms sound cool. There are many other genres that I obviated but basically, those 4 I listen to regularly. Over the years I have changed my musical tastes, I like the variety,...

  While I write these lines and sip my tea, sitting in front of my laptop I realize that every day is a new start, a new way to start from scratch, and refind us, takes us a while to contemplate what we achieve along this year. Some of us have changed for the better, some still are searching for this change, and everyone has an internal fight with their thoughts or is in the process to leave behind some things that could have pained. Take conscience about your place in this world and don't try to fill the expectations of other people, live a life you want to count on someday, practice things that make you feel happier, and try to appreciate the people around you and all around. Practice generosity and gratefully, new changes take time but the reward is priceless, try to do small steps instead of enormous and non-sense leaps to nowhere, and try to find a partner who motives and encourages you to do new things and brings you more confidence and discipline. Each day could be a new beg...

When the week is coming to the end, many people are waiting anxiously for the arrival of the weekend, even when in the city the weather is not so good, there are many different options where to go if you are one of waiting for the weekend to go out of your routine. Even if you don't have enough money to give yourself a well-deserved travel, you still have many different options near the city. One of the closest and more popular villages near Loja is Malacatos-Vilcabamba which offers the people good weather, almost the most part of the year is sunny and is visited frequently for tourists and people of the city. This Village counts numerous places which you could visit and chill for a while, you can climb mountains, see landscapes, walk around the downtown place or go to the river and take a dip. Always is recommended to go there because of the near to the place respect for the city and the location. I recommend you visit with your family and friends instead of going alone. Another o...

 Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness 🍂 Since I've struggled with several problems with anxiety and stress, I have realized that one of the key factors contributing to worse this conduct was my obstinacy sense of doing everything 'perfect'. I had the wrong idea that I could do all my purposes before the time and without no errors. These thoughts gave me more problems than solutions, I started to fantasize about a perfect reality, I was a dreamer who thoughted everything could be solved with maximum effort. Again, I was wrong, In fact, the time when I was at college I didn't enjoy it at all because for this reason, carry on me all these hard weights on my shoulders trying to highlight to the rest of the people. Even when I was doing other activities that idea started to round my head, with all thoughts related to anxiety. In those times, I had to maintain a scholarship that supposes I had to have better notes and do projects. I did it all, but what it was the cost th...

This has been a year full of new things, good and bad, contradictions and challenges, along this year, has passed uncountable events, my search for a job will give as a result of a small contract, only for two months, in which I had the labor of creating and uploading the content for the college page web. Many days I didn't have days off nor on weekends, which is supposed to take the day off to rest for a while. The job per se didn't was hard, rather was a remote job that permitted me to stay at my house and to have sometimes a flexible schedule. There were days on which I didn't job because the amount of work where was reduced. I am thankful to have this job, although it was only for a few weeks they would pay me, at least that they say when we ended our job there, the payments were delayed, until today they only pay us the wage corresponding to February. I counted on this money because this would be the way that I would pay for my IELTS exam this month, but the company de...

When I started this challenge I knew this would be a hard road before I started with this food regimen, constantly I felt tired, exhausted, and irritable, often I accused my age, and I felt that I was getting old and I felt more prone to be angry or exhausted. Always I was listening to my friends and family, complaining about their lack of energy and how tired and stressed they felt, they had one thing in common, they regularly were eating a lot of meat and processed food, I felt the same although I regularly practiced sports and was avoid eating trash food. So, this year was the begging of a big change, I decided to convert my diet and philosophy, and turn out into a more healthy and conscient regimen, a vegetarian lifestyle. At the start of this change, I was craving meat and all the food that I was accustomed to eating (actually, I'm still with these cravings). But, I started to note subtle changes, my skin had changed, I realized this when I saw my face in the mirror and could ...

  Well, as the headline says, passed one year exactly since I left my last job (I was a part of the staff of medical equipment at one hospital), there were a lot of things that happened to me when I gave my resignation letter. I was conscient that this act could give me several consequences. One of the first lessons that I learned about staying without a job, is that the fact is extremely difficult to get a job at this time, the lack of opportunities combined with an economic crisis that the pandemic left us added to the fragile economy that afront my country and the world, was the worst scenario to get out of a job. That brings me a lot of problems and changed my way of thinking about the working market. Often the offer passes the demand. Second, to be economically independent would be extremely hard, well all the Millenials in a certain way will have to afford this reality. Still, we depend on our parents, although we pretend to be more mature than we are feeling, we still don't ...

It all started when I was 14 years old, I was enthusiastic about the idea of learning to drive, my dad was the first person who teach me about the car and the tricks to learn and defeat my fear to drive. I was still young to know the responsibilities that involve driving a car with passengers. Anyway, I learned fast, in a few weeks I drove the car and could drive from my house to my mom's work, I was really good behind the wheel, I remember that summer vacation pretty well, it was terrific. But, in some way, I abandoned trying, and then with the divorce of my parents I never could take the wheel anymore, had to pass around 4 or 5 years to come back and drive again. Obviously, I forgot completely the previous drive lessons that my dad taught me when I was 15, now I was in my 20s and had all the toughs and problems that one young had. This second attempt to learn to drive again was hard, taking the wheel resulted so difficult for me, and maintaining the control and my mind calm was a...

 Many years ago, when I was 11 years old I was starting to view the footfall matches from another perspective, when I was younger soccer didn't interest me at all, my father and family often were talking about soccer players and teams, but barely I paid attention. But since the 2006 world cup was disputed in Germany, my tough respect for football was changed. In that World Cup my country there was classified and surprisingly there was passed to the next round. Since there my passion for football was changed forever. I used to follow all the teams and soccer players that were playing in that world cup. In fact, the final match of that event had seen the first final of that event that I can remember. My parents were enthusiastic about that, so they decided to inscribe me to a soccer camp. My first days were really tough, I had to play with other children older than me, physically I was at disadvantage, they were taller, ran faster, and played better than me. Then years later, when I ...

  I always I've listened to the history of self-successful in which an invincible and strong man could beat his fears and conquer all his dreams. Histories like that, we have found in every movie or book, and continuously say to us that everything is possible when we propose ourselves. The libraries around the world are full of self-help books, many of them are best-sellers, I won't discuss the fact of some of the books could be useful tools that can help in some of our problems. But, the idealization of a life full of goals and relates could be doing think wrong about what is the true purpose of our dreams. But, what happens when we give up or postpone our goals? when is time to throw in the towel? Sometimes, we found ourselves in circumstances that do us to take a step to the side or postponed our dreams for a while, we have to recognize the pros and cons of following to do whereas whatever thing that we're doing. I recognize that on many occasions I'm struggling with...

  Since I have memory all my life I was practicing some kind of sport either as recreation or about health and improve my self-esteem. Sports always has formed part of my life, directly or indirectly, I was surrounded by this, in my family, friends, or any topic in my life. In previous posts, I wrote about how good was to run for me, and how it help me. But, since I was in my senior year of high school I had a fascination with the world of lift-weighting and bodybuilding. But, it was rarely the time with I mixed these two activities (running and lifting). Every time, that I was running, I avoided or skipped the part of training with weights, and vice versa, when I was in the gym lifting weights, I avoided, sometimes by recommendations, keeping running for long distances. I never could combine all the benefits that could offer me these exercises. I think, the perfect balance between these two sports can improve my life quality and sports performance, but when I isolate them, only ca...

There were passed 2 years since the colleges around the country had to be forced to close their facilities due to the pandemic, the freshman students doesn't know-how was to entry to the college and some students were obligated to graduate online. In my city, there are two big universities, both of them were closed during this time. When the pandemic struggle our lives, I was working at my university, as part of the staff of platform development of the college, but this occurrence dropped all my work there. I always asked myself, when the activities would return to normal again. Then a lot of time, the date finally came. This week the return of the normal activities at my alma mater was a special event, all the students and personnel that work at the college was finally reunited as having to be. Inside my college, there were a lot of things that it changes, some new places they constructed when they closed their facilities, new and renewed classrooms, equipped with new accessories ...

In the early days of this month, we had the news about the collapse of a financial platform, which actually resulted to be a Ponzi scheme. Nearly 9 of each 10 people of my home town invested their money in this platform, many of them doing lends to deposit then in that pyramid. As a result of this, many people resulted tricked, and see their money goes away, the capacity of the people to be overly pretentious reliant, and ambitious was the detonator and key factor to giving a chance to these swindlers. Now, the main suspect and chairman behind this swindler escaped from the country to an unknown destiny. The authorities warned about this way to trick the people and how they operate, but the avarice was superior and they neglected all of these suggestions and warnings. It estimates that approximately 80 million dollars were circulated on this platform, people of all ages were depositing their saves on this. In my family circle, I had 7 members who trusted on this platform, I calculated ...

  Once a day in my life, I was afforded several problems with myself, stress caused by the university and family, anxiety, and in some way, I was feeling very depressed. A few months before that I was surgery on one of my knees, so the doctor recommended I should go out to run, and that thus when I started to run regularly. At the start, I felt nothing but exhausting, It was really painful and in some ways, it drained me so much time.  But day after day, I realized that I felt better, my mind and body were starting to change and I noticed that after months of consistency and self-discipline I got to run over 7 miles.  Running gives me a different perspective of my problems, on some occasions, I was submerged in my own thoughts, and at some point running made me feel more relaxed and conscient with a clean mind. Suddenly my problems seemed to disappear for a while, I was only myself and the road. Some days, there weren't perfect at all, there were days witch the weather wa...

 We live in a society that punishes failure, avoids completely talking about this topic, and only is focused on the idea that success is a way that is reachable with only a few steps. Everybody talks about their dreams and achievements, what they get through their lives and how far we are in their lives.  The only mention of the word fail is a synonym of loose, defeat, thinness, or weakness. But the truth is that our own lives were constructed on failures, those experiences we build our lives and teach us about the importance of learning over our errors.  People avoid talking about that, and they think that this topic is a specie of "taboo". Personally, I have experimented with my own the times that I have been struggling with failure, In fact, every task or goal that can I do is destiny to failure, is a reality that you must afford. In my almost 28, I have failed in so many things that I can't even remember the times that this punches me in my face. Sometimes, I avoid do...

  Almost six years ago my youngest sister was finishing her High School studies and was then that I realized how fast time goes. That day was a mix of emotions and memories, I was 22 years old and I was finished high school 4 years ago (in 2012), the last of the 3 of us in complete secondary and starting the long way towards university studies. Coming back to the present, my sister now is finishing her last year of medical school, and in the future weeks she is going to start the "internship" in a hospital. I am so proud of her, and all the goals that she achieve until now. She has 24 years old and is the most clever and sometimes (the most of the times xd) mature of the family. On the day of the event, I was remembering the last day in 2016 when she finished high school, it seem like was yesterday, the time flies (literally). Now I'm 27, one of my sisters is married and the last of us is going to be a doctor in the next years. I'm happy but a little bit sad because w...

  April gives us a warm welcome with a gorgeous Friday, everyone expects this last day to go out with friends and have a good time doing nothing but enjoying. As usual, every time that I open my Instagram account I see dozens of histories published on my feed, usually I skipped out that "news" but when I open someone of my friends, I always have noticed one common fact: the necessity of showing to the world our perfect and well-balanced lives.  Everyone tries to highlight and spotlight as they competed to show who has the better lifestyle or the funniest weekend. I suppose that I am doing old and maybe I see life from the other side of the street, but it's inevitable to see that fact. We live in an era that the social media is dominating our lives and everyone has a smartphone to show us their most valuable things like whether were a necessity or maybe a mandatory thing every time that they go out of their routines. I don't have a perfect life, absolutely not, but I t...

Everyone has the perception that a perfect job is a mix of certain things, well paid, near your home location, excellent job ambient, and enough free time to share with you own. That is a valid idea, but the question is: How near are we to this? In my country, the lack of defined rules that ensure a better relationship between the worker and the enterprise is a common ideology. Sometimes, this lack of rules can leave aside the worker and only center on the company, leaving the worker with an overwhelming hours load and paying the minimum wage for their activities. Even working at the latest hours the night or even working on weekends, this is a common practice as far the workers have accepted those conditions. Putting the shirt of the company is the motto that I've always listened to, incentivizing other workers to force to work to exhaustion,  and don't argue against that fact. But the reality is that in my hometown and my country the policies only protect the employer and neg...