Subway museum


Subway museum
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All aboard!


All aboard!
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Onigiri at the station


Onigiri at the station
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gots me a plan

SO last year I did 90 days of Peak Condition Project, then 90 days of Kung-Fu Body, and recently 6 weeks of Chisel. In between, I did some rebounding, but basically got healthier than I have ever been.
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The main thing I learned is that I do really well when I have a plan, a program to follow. Otherwise I just make stupid choices.
So, now I will try my own plan. The goal: finish the FIT For Charity 10k run in 50 minutes. Barefoot.
I will give myself 5 weeks, starting Monday Oct 26.
Until then I will spend a week in Bakersfield, CA, swinging swords and binging on burritos and froyo, and generally being not healthy.

I have been running off and on since PCP, so I'm not really an expert. I figure I will start the first week running at a 10k/hr pace (i.e. 10k will take 60 minutes) and then bring the speed up every week for five weeks until I am at a 12k/hr pace (i.e. 10k will take 50 minutes).
So the first week I will set my handy watch to a 6min/k pace, increasing the pace by 30 seconds every week for five weeks until I get to a 5min/k pace...
Sounds simple, but keeping up a 12k/h pace for 50 minutes, barefoot, will be a serious stretch for me.
Fastest 10k I ever did was 53 minutes, with shoes...but that was last year, when I wasn't really training.

I will try to run 4 times a week, maybe Mondays and Wednesdays barefoot 3-5k just to build up the bottoms of my feet to the leather necessary to handle 10k of city running. Tuesdays and Thursdays I'll do 5-7k with shoes, and on Saturday I'll go for a big 10-15k run, mainly with shoes.
Probably have to try it and see how it goes; not sure how much recovery time I'll need after barefoot running. Maybe I should take a day off after barefoot running, so I could do Monday barefoot, Tuesday  off, Wednesday shod, Thursday barefoot, Friday off, Saturday shod big run, Sunday off...hmm...

man-date

P took Ton to the Heart Catch Puricure event on Saturday, which is definitely Girls Only,  so The Mighty Mo and I had a man date.
First we went to the hospital to confirm that he did in fact have hand, foot, mouth disease. Then went to the pharmacy to get some cream for his butt, since his diaper rash wasn't.
After that we took the ChiBus to City Hall, got some onigiri, then walked up to the monorail and road to Haneda Airport.
He passed out just as we arrived, so I grabbed some lunch whilst he napped. When he woke up we went up to the observation deck to watch the planes, the raced a slot car around the huge track at the toy store.
We headed back down to the monorail, road back to Hamamatsucho, switched to the JR, and cruised to Harajuku. We walked up to Omotosando, took a Bucks break, checked out the National Treasures and other goodies on display at the special sword exhibit at Nezu Museum, walked down to Nishi Azabu, then up to Roppongi Hills, and finally home.

Lunch nap and pocky


Lunch nap and pocky
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Wife had the kids for the day, last day of summer before school starts tomorrow. They were out in the morning, but Mo fell asleep and no stroller, so P called me and came by wokrk. We got Ton an onigiri and some Pocky for lunch whilst the Monster slept.
Then they both got icecream.
Apparently that pushed Ton over her sugar quota for the day and she went ballistic, so from now on no chocolate except for once on Saturday, Swedish style!