My blog is all me, no AI. Hi, I'm Jim Wei. I build things, go for runs, and love making BBQ. Here's a space where I share my triathlon training journey,...
One thing I learned recently about training for triathlons, is that you’ll never be 100% ready for your race day. There is always going to be some kind of unexpected event. I had a group ride this week, and last minute our group decided to do a new course. One of the riders forgot to bring her clip-on cycling shoes and went with running shoes (I didn’t have cycling shoes to start with, running…
I saw a short video online the other day depicting a husband and wife duo and their day in the life. Here's what the husband's day look like: The husband wakes up incredibly early, something obscene around 3:15am. He starts off with a coffee, starts preparing meals for his family, films and does a workout, before preparing breakfast/coffee for his wife. He then goes about his day to feed his farm…
In less than a month, I will be doing my first sprint triathlon on the Toronto Island. It’s a short race compared to the Olympic distance and Ironmans, but it’ll be my biggest endurance challenge yet. I did the Give it a Tri event last year at the same place. It was a good time and it was fun enough for me to try again this year at double the distance. As I have recently heard, the sport of…
It's little over month and I have a 40 day streak going on Duolingo, I am pretty much Italian now and started to assimilate into my neighbourhood. Jokes aside, it's been a fun ride thus far. I can now muster up some basic greetings and ask basic questions when I see some of my neighbours. I've been occasionally dropping a few phrases here and there with the older, first generation Italian…
One late night, I started to think. What if I was all in on my craft? All in on my family, relationships? All in on my career? All in on my interests, hobbies and making myself better? Let's go, all in.
If there's a hill for me to die on, it's probably social media. On one hand, it's wonderful to keep in touch with friends, and see what kind of adventures they have been up to. It has made staying connected easier than ever to do so. At the same time, it's probably led to more collectively wasted time than ever before. I remember back in 2007 (I am starting to date myself now), Facebook was…
I started backyard barbecuing a couple summers back when I moved to a new house with my family. The previous homeowner left their propane barbecue behind and I had thought they might have forgotten about it. I realized later, it was likely too much of a hassle for them to have moved it, or that it came with the house. Either ways, I saw it as a gift for us and I started getting excited to begin my…
I recently went to my high school reunion, and it threw me into a bit of a spiral. I connected with old teachers, old friends, classmates and an old flame whom I have not seen in more than well over 10 years. These were all people who had a profound impact to my life, and it started to make me think. I started to revisit all the life decisions I have made over the years, and even some decisions I…
This past weekend, I was able to take part in Markham's Cycling day event. It was free, so I figured it would be a nice social ride to get some more mileage in before my sprint tri in August. I was right about having fun and it being social. The event has various distances for all skill levels ranging from 5km to 60km. I signed up for the 25km ride because I already knew such a distance would be…
I ran the sporting life 10K in Toronto this year. I never considered myself much a runner, but it seems like these days I’ve been running more and more. Maybe it has something to do with getting into my 30s. I’m less interested in going to the gym these days to lift weights. Somehow, lifting heavy has lost some appeal over the years. Maybe because it’s less fun when you are just training by…