Running Update

Here's what I've run so far. It's not been as clean as the schedule I originally planned.
day 1- 10k
day 2- 11.5k
day 3- break
day 4- 10 k
day 5- break
day 6- 15.5 k

That's a grand total of 47 kilometers over 6 days. Dividing the days up, I should be at 60k by now, so I'm a little behind. I've been running into some problems (haha, it's a pun) such as sore knees (the reason for my break on day 3), and some stomach problems which have limited the length of some of the runs.

Another challenge has been to accurately determine how far I've run. I've been listening to radiolab shows, which are usually about an hour long. I have a pretty good idea of how far I can run in one hour, so I then go to mapmyrun.com and try to guess where exactly I had just been running to confirm (not an easy task when you're randomly selecting alleyways around Incheon).

Failed Challenge: Meditation

During my trip to India, I started a 30-day meditation challenge. Somewhere along the way, I got distracted and forgot. India can be a distracting country sometimes.

I liked what little meditation that I did during the challenge, so I'll probably try it again sometime.

New Challenge: 300 kilometers in 30 days

There's no better time to be running in Korea than during fall. The weather is cool, and the leaves are changing into other-colored leaves.

My next challenge is to run a total of 300 km within 30 days. It's the same as a 10 km (about 6 miles) run every day. Impressed with my division yet? Just wait.

But instead of running every day, weekly I'm going to do 5 days of 10 km runs, 1 day off, and then a 20 km run.

Yesterday I ran around beautiful Bupyeong Park. It has a course that's exactly 1260 meters long, so 8 times around makes a perfect 10 km run. Counting to eight very slowly while running around in a circle is surprisingly challenging for me, so I used my fingers to keep track.

There was a lot of math in this post. It's making my head hurt a little bit.