I kept my Friday very low key, and watched a great movie - Without Limits (movie about the great runner, Steve Prefontain). Saturday morning, I was off for a 9 mile run! Took it slow and easy, longest run I've done all year. Shortly after the run was a rest and some food... the I set out running to the gym for a 1 hour weight session. I ran to and from the gym in my nifty "5 finger" shoes by Vibram. I do enjoy the barefoot running experience. I can feel a difference in my stride and feel the effect on my muscles. Great shoes! I followed my weight session with a rest and food then was off to the pool for a 1000m swim. (20 laps). All in all good day, however this was my "easy" day for the weekend.
Sunday morning, I got up for a little 3 mile run. Then fueled up for a big ride and hike! I cycled out to this mountain, took the longer way there 11.5 miles. Anseong is about 50ft above sea level, the ride took me to 500ft above sea level. This was a little ways up the base of the mountain I was about to hike. The hike took me up a "hard" path to 1,749 ft above sea level. I say it was a "hard" path since it was mostly straight up, lots of trees, not very many people, the grade of the climb was about 55%. I believe a treadmill can provide you with a max grade of 10%. The hike was awesome! At the top, I took some great photos, and had a chat with a few Koreans who just took a different path to the top. They were from Seoul. The gentleman, Peter, and his wife were down in Anseong to buy a kitty cat from a college student who couldn't keep him. :) cute. They were a very friendly couple who fed me some of their massive pear they had. Peter gave me his business card and said to call when I come up to Seoul and they will arrange for me to come over and meet their daughter who's my age, and they will cook for me:) Korean's are very friendly people! I made it down the mountain in 1/2 the time it took me to get up. Then I was back to the bike for a very easy, mostly downhill, 10.5 mile ride back home! I will defiantly do this workout again! Next time I'll challenge myself to go faster or ride a little further before going for the climb. The bottom of the Mountain has an 800 year old Buddhist temple, which I was able to check out and get some photos of. Very cool!
The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing and preping for this week. Since I've been bringing my lunch to school everyday, I'm forced to cook something...every night. I am coming to enjoy the cooking. Please message me any healthy recipes if you have any! I am still pretty new to this whole cooking thing :)
This week at school has been very busy! Thank goodness it's wednesday! I begin teaching 2 new classes next week. One is an afterschool class for children who want to improve their English, the other is of teachers who want to learn more English. It will be nice to have 2 classes of people who are motivated to learn! :) I will up date on how they go... till then I have many many new lessons to plan!
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