I ran this morning; I adjusted my alarm at 4:30am and was able to get up and go. I started off lightly, not trying to force myself to run the whole thing, and I was willing to walk along the way.
Best of all, the season has shifted and the weather has become more comfortable and early fall. It’s now just after 7:20 a.m., and by the time I finished breakfast and sat down in front of this computer on the third floor, the freshness of the breeze blowing through the stairs was soothing.
Today is September 15th. I’ll never forget August 15, exactly one month ago. It was a Saturday. After work, I went to the Shin Numazu Country Club to practice for about an hour.
I thought it wouldn’t be too much of a burden to practice for an hour even under the intense direct sunlight. However, it wasn’t so. Halfway through, I started to feel lightheaded and sick.
I rushed back home, thinking this was not good. I took a cold shower for quite a long time, but I couldn’t get back to normal right away. I hadn’t thought it through. I stopped going out to practice for almost three weeks after that.
■ Exactly one month has passed since then. We have a crisp blue sky through the window. It is still over 30 degrees Celsius in the daytime and I can’t live without air conditioning, but in the mornings and evenings it’s starting to feel like autumn.
So I ran 9.76 km this morning, bringing my total to 43.61 km in six runs this month and bringing my monthly mileage to 56.38 km with 15 days left to run 100 km.
This morning I walked twice along the way, about 50 meters. And when I took a break in between, it was very easy to run.
I don’t know what contributed the most. Maybe it’s the Kakkon-to I started taking morning and evening a few days ago, or maybe it’s the autumnal weather that’s helping me get over the summer fatigue.
My stomach used to feel chilly and queasy when I drank something cold, but that is no longer the case. I seem to be spinning in the right direction towards recovery.
I had a good rest this morning. Yesterday, I attended the Rotary Club meeting at lunchtime and then went home when it started to rain.
I wasn’t feeling well, and I couldn’t get rid of the sluggishness that I felt just like the beginning of a cold. I tried to rest, but I didn’t feel any better until the night came.
My body was not only sluggish, but also my skin was very sensitive. When even a slight breeze hits my body, I feel a tingling sensation, and at the same time, I sweat, which seems to be a contradiction in terms. When I take my temperature, I don’t have a fever.
In the end, I took three bags of “Kakkon-to for the first cold” which Non recommended before I went to bed.
Thanks to that, I slept well last night, and my tiredness and tingling sensation are gone this morning when I woke up. I hope my condition will return to normal.
Yesterday, an election was held to elect a new joint party representative and Yukio Edano, the president of the Rikken Democrat Party, was elected as the first representative. The party started with 149 members of the Diet. The party’s name was also decided as the Rikken Democrat Party.
Looking back on the seven years and eight months of the Abe administration, the biggest reason may be the lack of a strong opposition party, but it was marked by arrogant management of the Diet, where only catchphrases danced around the issue and the party repeatedly pushed the issue through the power of numbers.
Real income of the people has decreased and many people are now poor. Abe brags about adding jobs, but most of them are temporary jobs.
All the policy goals that PM Abe announced in the past 7 years or so have hardly been realized, and he has simply replaced one sign after another without summing up or reflecting on his policies. In the meantime, there is no doubt that Japan has deteriorated and become poor.
There is no doubt that the opposition party is largely responsible for failing to stop this.
The spread of the new coronavirus is about to change our society in a big way. Some say that even capitalism, a system we take for granted, is being forced to stand at the last minute.
We don’t want to live in a society where the people in the city who live their lives seriously suffer. The responsibility of politics is truly great.