Liebster Award / Auhinnaring

Today I learned something: never check the Internet just “one” more time before you decide to start studying. Why? Because someone might tag you with a Liebster award and you might get a HUGE urge to write a blogpost. Well, there goes Public Sector Finance…

Actually, I really want to thank Henry for giving me the award. It’s a pleasure to know that someone who’s blog you absolutely adore reading actually likes your work as well. Henry writes about a healthy lifestyle, sports and weightloss as well (among other things). He. Is. HILARIOUS. Check out his blog! 🙂

 


 

So, I have to answer 5 questions and then give the award to someone else and let them answer 5 questions. So without further ado, here are my answers to the 5 questions asked. Let me tell you, I had to think pretty hard on these!

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1. If you were really really great at one thing. The best in the world. What would it be and why?

Public speaking. Wouldn’t that be great? I mean, being really motivating, inspiring an interesting to listen to. I would go around the world and preach only good thoughts, try to make people happier, more self-confident and loving towards each other. This might sound like a Miss World answer of “I want world peace to everyone” 😀 but having great public speaking skills and preaching happiness would be awesome. 

2. What did you learn from ’50 Shades of Grey’? What are your expectation to men now? (If you haven’t read it, which I’m sure you have, what shows do you follow?)

Here’s the thing… I haven’t read it 😀 I’m a weird person (as I’ve stated many times before): I don’t really ever feel the need to read/watch/listen to the “what’s hot now” things. I haven’t read the Twilight saga or seen the movies. I don’t follow Game of Thrones. I don’t know a thing about Harry Potter. Et cetera. I wonder how I even dragged myself to the movies to watch the Hunger Games…

I’ll answer the back-up question then. I regularly follow Downton Abbey, Bones and Õnne 13 (you’re all allowed to laugh out loud!). Downton Abbey is a recent favourite, I think the actors/actresses are great and I love how it’s tied together with real history. Bones is an old favourite of mine, I used to have no problem watching it (= blood, bones and dead bodies) while eating lunch. Õnne 13 I’ve watched all my life and it would just feel weird to miss it. Other than that, I don’t think there’s much else. I don’t have that much time for TV. I’m busy with real life 🙂

3. Who did you want to become when you were little and who do you want to become now?

When I was little, I wanted to become a hair-dresser or a makeup artist. I always liked going to the hair-dresser with my mom, cutting my dolls’ hair, making braids and messing around with makeup. I got my first set of eyeshadows, mascara and lipstick when I was 9 years old, after annoying my mom for a LONG time (talk about persuasion skills!). I was on top of the world when I could play around with these things at home. Ofcourse I didn’t start wearing makeup in public when I was 9. 🙂

Now… That’s a more complicated question. 😀 I love what I study at university, economics is just perfect for me: enough maths and enough everything else. I have dreamed about a position in public sector for quite a few years now… We’ll see what the future has in store for me. 🙂 Maybe something in the public sector that has something to do with public health? That would be pretty great.

4. What’s in your 5-year plan?

In 5 years I’ll be 27 years old. Now I’m pretty scared. 😀 But the main things:

  • Have a Master’s degree in economics.

  • Have a job I enjoy doing.

  • Be independent.

  • Have completed a full marathon, at least once.

  • Have travelled to most continents but especially to NYC, my dream travel destination.

  • Have a loving man in my life 🙂

  • Have a lot of new amazing friends!

  • … but also have my old friends still in my life!

  • Start thinking about buying some property to actually own a home.

  • Start thinking about kids.

  • Be happy every single day.

  • Feel like I’m useful for the world 🙂

5. Which blogs do you follow and why (what do you get from them?). Name 3–5 blogs.

I actually have sub-categories of blogs I follow in my Bloglovin’: nutrition, sports, beauty, travel and other. So I’ll name one blog out of every category (but you can see more in my LINKS page).

Nutrition: who to pick? Toit, trenn, kogemused. Kristi blogs about nutrition, workouts and weightloss. She’s so inspiring and has a lot of great thoughts.

Sports: this one is hard because there is a lot to choose from. I have mentioned many bloggers in my posts before so in this one I’m going to pick someone new. TRIO TO RIO. Lily, Liina and Leila Luik are Estonian marathon running triplets. They are awesome! They also are a part of TÜ ASK, my sports club. 

Beauty: FleurDeForce. She also has a beauty channel on YouTube. She shares great beauty tips, is very relatable and generally a beautiful person from the inside out.

Travel: new york ilma glamuurita. As I mentioned before, I want to travel to NYC. It’s a dream. This woman is living there and she’s Estonian. And she takes great photographs. Not much more needs to be said.

Other: Erle Kaasik photographs. I absolutely love photography and have a pleasure to know this girl personally as well. She is VERY talented and has breathtaking work.

 


 

 

These were my answers. I tried my best, they were hard! 🙂 

Now the even harder part… Who the h*ll do I nominate? So many great blogs are out there. I pick Toit, trenn, kogemused aka Kristi Värik’s health blog

My questions for Kristi:

1. Describe your life in 5 years. Kirjelda oma elu 5 aasta pärast.

2. What’s the biggest workout goal you have? Milline on sinu kõige suurem trenniga seotud eesmärk, mis endale seadnud oled?

3. Describe one memorable situation from your childhood. Kirjelda üht meeldejäävat seika oma lapsepõlvest.

4. Name 3 of your favourite books, explain the chioce. Nimeta 3 oma lemmikraamatut, põhjenda valikut.

5. What’s your favourite quote / moto? Why? Milline on sinu lemmiktsitaat / moto? Miks?

 

Workout Week 14.–20.04.2014

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

14.-20.04.2014

Monday‘s Jooks Jõud Venitus was cancelled and I went running in the morning. I didn’t push myself too hard and took it slower. I also climbed Toome Hill again. I love running in the city, it’s so much more interesting and time passes A LOT faster than when running in one straight line. Time: 1 hour, distance: 8,77K, average pace: 6:51 min per km. A good start to the week!

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Monday morning run

Tuesday: BodyPump. Finally I felt good in Tuesday’s Pump. 🙂 Before pumping I did a quick 20 minute warm-up run and honestly: it was the best decision in a long time! I was already sweaty and really working it out in warm-up track 😀 I ran out of my second bottle-full of water after triceps track… By the end of the class I was so thirsty I could have died. It was a good workout! I think I’m going to start doing a short run before every BP now.

Wednesday was supposed to intervals day but Maris told us that it was going to be a Monday’s routine: run+strength. I was determined to get some intervals done, so I did. I made a 10 minute warm-up run, then 20 minutes of intervalling, then 30 minutes of steady running. After that we had around 45 minute for strength training. It was a nice long workout 🙂

Thursday’s BodyPump was awesome. I did the whole chest track with 7+7 kg bar and also added a little weight for some parts in triceps and biceps. I just can’t get enough of this workout 🙂

Friday I had the IV Virtual Run this year. All in total I ran 12K that day. A longer post about my race coming next week.

Saturday was such a great day. I love Saturdays at home! I had a great breakfast and then went out to make the first real cycling trip this year. All in total I cycled 33,2 kilometres in almost 2 hours (with small breaks to check the map or take photos). I was out in a short-sleeved cycling shirt and shorts and I wasn’t actually cold at all. It was so sunny and warm and I got tanlines on my legs. I could have cycled even more but time is a scarce resource if you’re a student trying to graduate. Later that afternoon I did some more tanning on my porch along with my study materials… A good productive day 🙂

Cycling views @ Ida-Virumaa

Sunday was actually supposed to be a cycling or swimming day but the weather was so great that I just wanted to run. I went running thinking it was going to be an easier recovery run. But now that I can run faster, I don’t want to go slow anymore. 😀 Distance: 7K, average pace: 6:06 min per km (= fast for me).

 


 

In total:

4 hours 30 minutes of running

2 hours 50 minutes of muscle workouts

1 hour 50 minutes of walking

2 hours of cycling

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So much yellow in my workout table which means a lot of running. I was out on a proper run 4 times this week + did two short warm-up runs. All in total a little over 41 kilometres which a serious weekly distance for me. I actually really like my workout routine right now: concentrating on running and adding in supportive activities like strength and various cross training.

I sometimes do worry about my triathlon in July since I haven’t really started with serious cycling yet. I have done quite a bit of swimming in the winter but now I’m also lacking in that department. But at the same time, my half-marathon comes before the triathlon, so maybe now is not the time to worry about it (too much)? I don’t know. Let’s get the 21,1K done first and then start to seriously engage in tri prepping. 

Sometimes you just can’t do it all. Or can you?