More Onegin, Murakami…

This week I had 2 performances of Onegin, they went really well. While rehearsals of Hoffmann are going on, I have been busy practising few arias I am preparing for an upcoming concert. I am really looking forward to it, it is still not 100 percent sure that I will be able to do it, but as soon as it is official I will share the details.

Since a couple of weeks, I am helping a colleague of mine to go through Almaviva and few tenor arias. I sang this role already and he asked for my advice. He is really talented and doing a great job with it. I feel really grateful that he asked me and I am really glad to be able to share with him what I learnt through my own experience.

I keep doing my exercise like every week, 4 workouts per week and on top of that, this week I ran for the first time in my life 10 km and it took me around 58 minutes. I am really glad I was able to do the whole run. In the previews weeks I have been running between 7 and 8 km. On Monday I woke up and decided to run the same 8 km but by around kilometer 7 I decided to keep going slowly at the same rythm until I got to the 10th Km. I must admit that on Tuesday and Wednesday I felt it haha. But it was worth.

It is very refreshing to read Murakami again. I love going to his world and reading about the changes that came along when he started running and to read all the process he went through the act of running for almost a quarter of a century. Few things are similar with me. Like him, I turned around my eating habits and started to exercise at the age of 33 in a serious conscious way. Like him, I also not only saw the changes in my body but overall the way I feel mentally and physically. Like him, my partner eats all she wants and without doing any exercise she manages to keep the same weight, and me, if I stop doing exercise I start to gain weight, and like him that is one of those things where I think, life is not fair. Like him, I feel blessed that I gain weight easily because thanks to that I started to exercise and started to look after a more healthy way of nurturing myself. Thanks to that, I feel better than I have ever felt in my life.

Take care and see you next week.