marathon

did a half marathon today, it kicked my butt... my endurance breathing was fine, but i didnt strethch beforehand (big mistake) and i am not flexible enough in general.. my hamstrings tighened up severely, and my knee started hurting at about kilometer 13.. (i was keeping a 5 minute per kilometer pace until kilo 13) at this point i driopped off to about 6 minutes per kilo. Then the last 3 kilo I had to walk cus my knee was in so much pain from running. None the less, I finished, in 2 hours and 6 minutes or something. (I decided to run the race after regrestration was full, so I wasn't officialy registered, I just ran anyway, without the number bib) Only once did an old man notice I had no official number bib and tried to talk to me about it but I just kept running.

It was fun, and I will get in better shape so I can do better next time.

Also I got runners nipple, which hurts!!

things i wanna learn

juggling
magic
freestyle rap
gymnastics
yoga
italian
french
ASL
thai
chinese


i will practice these (more often) starting today

life and stuff

i got internet... i've been running... josh went home

i joined ICU swim club, i'm gonna go swim in a little while
if you e-mail me your e-mail address, or leave a comment, i will share my google calander with you, so that you can see what i am doing everyday.. it's mostly just sports, and dates to hang out wtih friends.

Tomorrow is japan vegetarian festival, and a raw food potluck.
i will add pics soon.

I'm trying to work towards a goal of doing 3 miles in 18 minutes, and 10km in 40 minutes... we'll see how it goes.

oh yeah

i know it's not the best idea but i have been playing on borrowed wireless.
it disconects sometimes, and has cost me aproximately 2000 dollars so far, but i'm up around 25k on the connection so *shrug*.
won like 9k yesterday and then 2k today, which was nice cus i was down pretty big, and ended up a little.

i also dumpstered : curtain, silverware, jeans
foraged: 2 oranges and 1 persimmon.

I lift weights at ICU (my former university in Tokyo). It's 2.9 miles from my apartment, so I just run there, lift weights, and run home usually.

Also tomorrow wakana is coming over. She is doing a lot better lately, I took her to blind runners of Tokyo, and she tried running, also i helped her lift weights a few times (which she asked me for). we also went dumpstering togehter.

she spends the night about every other night, cus her parents make her go home SOMETIMES.

anyway, i also remembered i want to learn ASL american sign language, and chinese. I think when I go back to school i will take chem2, bio2, and either ASL I or CHIN I.

If i start swimming i might get a triathlon bike here in tokyo and put in some miles during the winter.. i hear you can do it, it's just cold :) Also 2 friends of mine are visiting me in 2 weeks. 2 girls i met in thailand, they're super cool and we had a fun day together hangin out in bangkok.

Oh yeah, anyone who reads this and wants to visit me, feel free to come sleep on my dumpstered carpet with me. I can promise you a place to stay, electricity, and hot water :).

exercise

been running a lot lately.
did 13k yesterday, and did 3km at a fast pace today. saturday vegan runners meetup we are doing 25km along arakawa river. i am hosting a couch surfer tomorrow, and also josh is arriving on sunday.

the house i tried to buy seems that the real estate agency was shady and gave verbal acceptance, then went and accepted someone else's higher offer. wtf m8.
i get fiber optic internet installed on saturday.
i've been lifting weights every other day for about 2 weeks, its fun.

also i found swimming club at ICU so i will hopefuly start swimming 4 days a week.

world championship triathlon is sunday.

no internet lately

haven't had internet lately
been running a lot.. mostly 10km a day
wakana spends the night
i eat fruit.
i take walks..
i dumpstered some clothes...

updates more to come when i get internet (hopefuly in 3 days)