| | Damn good day today. but first, a little bit leading up to it.
Sunday went to Kagawa prefecture and climbed all the 1380 or so stairs at the temple there (the name evades me). Afterwards bought some japanese sweets for the teachers at school, and then went to a really really awesome udon restaurant and ate the best niku udon ever.
Monday didn't do much. I didnt go to judo all this week because there was shit i had to do at home and such. tuesday didnt go to school and caught up on some sleep. wednesday was another 5km time trial in gym. my time was 22:08, which actually is more towards the worst, lol. problem with this day was i somehow fucked up my foot while running, and it hurts to walk on it. thursday no gym or judo, but i did give a speech in front of the whole school, my last one. Came home thursday and iced my foot some more in preperation for today. heres why
so, at chuo high school, every year there is a marathon that everyone has to run. about 22km for boys and like 10km for girls. problem with this is that its on february 7th, 3 days after i leave, and all we've been doing in gym is training for the marathon. so i find out on monday from my homeroom teacher ms fukuda that she organized a "pre-marathon" just for me that would be on friday (today). 16km for boys, about 8km for girls, and also there were 5 or 6 teachers running in the marathon (ms. futagami, mr. oyama, mr. nagano, mr. yamamoto, and a few more i dont really know personally), but of course the gym teachers of that period as well (my gym teacher mr. ishimaru, mr. morita) and also ms. ishimaru did the marathon on a bike, which was funny as hell to watch. Its funny because yamamoto told me before the race "i know i cant keep up with you, but ill do my best" Now, remember that i have a foot injury here, but two days of heavily icing it helped alot, and today, it didnt start hurting until the last like 6 or so km of the marathon. Its funny because all most of the teachers running are over 30 and i know smoke, so therefore nagano and yamamoto finished towards the end, but the younger teachers and mr. oyama actually did fine. two teachers finished before me. The surprising part about Oyama is that im sure he's in at least his 40's, but now that i think about it he looks like he's in really good shape, so in a slight way im not surprised he finished before me. The course of the marathon started on the school's field, then we did a half circle and went behind the school and to the side, then out the front gate, around the school to the river path behind the school, went that way for around 6km, crossed a bridge and back which is about 1km, ran another 1km to where ms. fukuda and two other teachers were standing, turned around and did the same course in reverse order. we met several teachers on the way, such as my math teacher mr. yoshioka. it was hillarious when we got to him, because he saw that i was running right alongside mr. ishimaru, and he was like "‚ ‚ A‚·‚²‚¢‚æIΊۂƈê‚É" and then he gave me a high five while i was running. Anyway, everyone was waiting at the finish line when i came back, and they held out the ending tape for me and everything. then we got to see most of the other people come back. its funny because a few people didnt finish and some other people had to go look for them, but in the end, everyone came back.
anyway, no i have to brace myself for a busy weekend filled with afs's papers and shit like that. wish me luck. thats all for now. |
