1st vlog. The introduction of a new video series.
[ep. #1 of the structural basics series]
Hi friends,
I just published a new video on YouTube. You can check it out here.
In this structural basics series, I am sharing more personal stuff like learnings and failures of being a structural engineer.
This is the series I wish I had when I was in uni, because I had no clue how structural engineers work and how they actually design buildings from all these abstract static systems that we learn in mechanics classes.
We’ll publish one video a month and these vlog type videos will be split into 3 parts:
story of the month
structure tip of the month
growth stats of structural basics and update on new articles, videos, etc.
In this first vlog (episode #1) I am introducing Structural Basics, this new series and me.
And as I said in the video, the quality will get better. There’s a lot of new stuff that I have to learn. Any feedback is appreciated, and let me know what topics and content you want me to cover.
I recorded this first video on Mallorca. I took a short 5-day holiday there with my dad and ran the marathon in Palma. Unfortunately, the race didn’t go as planned. I got my first cramp at km 31 and from km 34 I had to stretch and walk every 200 m.
I even fell to the ground 500 meters before the finish line, because I got cramps in both the front and back of my upper leg.
It was a big disappointment to be honest, because I put in so much training.
Now, a couple of days later, I am actually proud that I didn’t give up and completed it.
Reflecting on it, I have to train even more and focus more on muscle training to run a sub 3:30 marathon. During the last months I ran roughly 50 km/week, while for my first marathon I did 60 km/week. I probably also didn’t relax my muscles well enough the day before. I biked 25 km to pick up my bib number. Finally, I might have been too optimistic to run a sub 3:30 in a race with 220–240 meters of elevation.
But we’ll learn from it and come back stronger.
Talk soon,
Laurin
