Today is the last day of January. A month goes by in no time. Today was a warm and sunny day. After a long time, I enjoyed playing golf with a good friend quartet. Mr. Omura, Mr. Hisamatsu, Mr. Uematsu, and myself. Originally, it is customary to have an eve in Nagaoka, where Mr. Omura’s dormitory is located, and enjoy golf the next day, but this time I have to refrain from playing golf.
Today was a forced march starting at 7:39, but the weather was nice and it was a really fun day.
I myself was worried about what would happen because of the new club I bought the other day. It seems to suit my swing better than I expected. The score is 47,48, totaling 95. I am good at it. I feel like I understood a little about the problems with the swing, so it was the next day to connect.
My grandson Masato was able to successfully celebrate his first birthday on the 28th, and Yuko-san sent me a video of Masato’s recent situation. Just looking at the gestures and movements will make us feel at ease. The power of children is really great.
I just hope that the corona will converge and that my normal life will return.
例えば今朝の場合、エプソンのランニング・ウォッチでは走行距離は7.46 km と出ているのですが、TATTAというランニングアプリでは、走行距離は8.7 km と記録されています。 このように両者の違いが1 km を超えることもあります。どちらが正しいのかは私にはもちろん分かりませんが、結構差が大きいのに驚きます。
したがって平均ペースの値もかなり違ってきます。エプソンのランニング・ウォッチでは km あたり6分29秒となっていますが、ランニング・アプリではキロ当たり5分31秒と出ています。 自分の中での正式記録としてはエプソンのランニング・ウォッチによる記録を残しています。
■ I ran this morning. As usual, I woke up at 4:30, changed my clothes and left the door. At that moment, I felt that the cold weather was even stronger this morning. After the preparatory exercise, I started the usual course. I passed in front of my friend’s house, confirmed that the lights were on and there was no problem, and headed to the school playground.
This morning I set a timer to 30 minutes and started running in the schoolyard. I started feeling tired from the middle and felt it for 30 minutes, but I managed to finish running and left the schoolyard toward my house.
This morning, the 12th run of the month accumulated 7.46 km, for a total of 103.68 km. Achieving my goal of 100km a month. When I connected to the Epson homepage, a message “Congratulations on achieving my goal” appeared on the screen. With this, we were able to safely start the 100km / month run in 2021.
From this month, I installed a running app on my smartphone and started measuring with Epson running watch and double, but I’m not sure which one is correct, but there is a difference in mileage.
For example, this morning, Epson’s running watch shows a mileage of 7.46 km, but a running app called TATTA records a mileage of 8.7 km. In this way, the difference between the two can exceed 1 km. Of course I don’t know which one is correct, but I’m surprised that the difference is quite large.
Therefore, the average pace value will also be quite different. Epson’s running watch shows 6 minutes and 29 seconds per km, while the running app shows 5 minutes and 31 seconds per kilometer. As an official record in myself, I keep a record by Epson’s running watch.
Combined with this month’s mileage, the total mileage since starting a record with a running watch in 2012 has exceeded 10,000 kilometers. It is something that I have accumulated well. I don’t know how long I can continue, but it is also a source of energy, so I will continue to do so in order to lead a better life.
■ Well, I went home, washed my body with the remaining hot water from yesterday, and tried to refresh myself with a hot shower, but the water pipe was frozen and the hot water did not come out. This is the second freezing of water pipes this winter. The strength of the cold that I felt when I left the front door was not a mistake.
Even so, after running for nearly 50 minutes, my body temperature had risen and I didn’t feel strangely cold. I didn’t tremble in the cold while preparing breakfast. Running means that you are burning the energy in your body. You should lose weight.
■I took a rest this morning. I was off from the afternoon yesterday, so I usually use that time to shop and go to the post office, but yesterday’s rain forced me to stay home.
From the evening, the temperature dropped sharply and it became colder. When I was watching the news on TV, it was snowing in Oyama Town in Shizuoka. It was reported that the temperature dropped sharply in Tokyo and sleet was fluttering in the city center.
And today, it is forecast that a low pressure system will develop rapidly in the Sea of Japan, and in Hokuriku, the Tohoku region, and Hokkaido, there will be another blizzard.
Here too, the wind has strengthened since 7 o’clock and the leaves of the trees are shaking violently. The outside is a blue sky, but it must be heavy snow on the Sea of Japan side. The weather is stormy before Setsubun.
■An article entitled “Co-development of his vaccine between Iran and Cuba” is written on page 9 of the Tokyo Shimbun this morning. Both countries have approached each other in recent years under the circumstances of suffering from US sanctions.
It is written that Iran wants to take advantage of Cuba’s high medical technology to develop domestic vaccines at once. Cuba is known as a medically advanced country, and it is said that medical cooperation is an important means of overseas strategy, but such information is hardly known in Japan.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif visited Havana, the capital city last November, and praised Cuba’s medical technology as “impressed.” The two countries are said to have confirmed cooperation in the medical, chemical and energy fields. This area is described in detail in the following article.
The current situation in Japan is that information on countries that oppose the United States is somehow out of our reach. This sometimes makes it very difficult to judge the current situation correctly.
■I ran this morning. It was a rainy day yesterday, but the probability of precipitation from 3:00 to 6:00 this morning was 0%, so I set the alarm clock to 4:30 with confidence. As usual, I went to bed around 10:30, read a book for a while, and then fell asleep around 11:00. I woke up for the first time after midnight, but after that it seems that I slept soundly. I woke up a little before 4:30 and started running after the preparatory exercise. The wind started to blow strongly from the middle of this morning. According to the weather forecast, a low pressure system will develop in the Sea of Japan, and a blizzard will occur on the Sea of Japan side of the Hokuriku and Tohoku regions. The Pacific side also seems to rain at night.
■This morning, the 11th run of the month accumulated 10.11 km, bringing the total to 96.21 km and 3.78 km in the remaining three days to run 100 km a month. Since I was running 10.11 km in 1 hour, 2 minutes and 7 seconds, the average pace is 6 minutes and 8 seconds. Not bad for me. But while I was running, it was a very difficult time. After entering the schoolyard of the elementary school, I started running with the timer set to 45 minutes, but I felt it was very long. I checked the clock twice on the way and couldn’t resist the temptation to know the remaining time. Even so, the average pace is not bad at all, so is it different from the spiciness and running condition that I feel? From around 4.5 km, I’ve been running at a pace of 5 minutes per kilometer, so I’m sure I was running properly even in a difficult situation. According to the record, I ran 11 times this month, but it was actually today that I ran at the best pace. While I was running, I felt so painful, but it was surprising. Finally, if I run one more time, I can reach your goal of 100 km per month. It will have started safely in 2021.
■Today is the birthday of my first grandson Masato. Yuko-san sends me video letters from time to time, so we can see how he is growing. Masato is really growing like a different person from a month ago. He was hi-hi, but in the next video we received, it was amazing that he was walking a little. I am relieved that he has grown up safely. Now that the corona is bad, it’s difficult to get to and from each other, so I can’t meet them, but if he is fine, I’m happy. I am looking forward to seeing him next time.
■I knew from the weather forecast last night that it was raining this morning, so I set the alarm clock at 6 o’clock and took a rest. But before that, I woke up at 5 o’clock and finally spent some time dozing. A warm morning is the best luxury time for me. This rain will make Mt. Fuji whiter again, and it will become a wonderful winter-like Mt. Fuji. After all, I got up at 5:15 and started preparing breakfast. It was raining quite heavily, so I took out the newspaper from the entrance on the first floor and returned to the living room on the second floor.
■Looking at the local newspaper, Numazu Asahi, the manuscript I posted the other day was published. It is “thinking”. This is a description of the second lecture at Hohira Junior High School, which was held in 2019. Is it the first time in 3 years to post to Numazu Asahi? This is the first time since “Daughter’s Happiness”, which reported on the trip to support Vietnamese defoliant victims in 2018.
In the old days, I posted it many times a year. From the time when the Internet was released to the general public and mosaics and Netscape appeared as browsers and dominated all at once, I was literally addicted to the Internet. What is now commonplace is very fresh and exciting. I posted it many times on the subject.
In this manuscript, “Thinking,” I wrote about children who think about the victims in Vietnam, which is far away. According to a report by the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, the decisive difference between chimbungee and Homo sapiens is that you can think beyond time and space. After hearing the first lecture, the children became interested in it, and after thinking about what they could do, they started the fund-raising activity. This time, I was able to receive the results in front of all the students.
今月10回目のランで9.52 km を走り、通算86.10 km を積み重ね、残り6日で目標の月100キロ走まで13.89 km のところまで来ました。あと2回走れば目標を達成できそうです。
今日はスマホのランニングアプリとしてランキーパーを使いました。1 km ごとに音声で案内をしてくれる設定にしてあります。道路を走るコースですと、今どこを走っているかということが景色で分かりますので、自分が今どの位置にいるのか、あとどのぐらい走ればゴールまでたどり着けるのかがよく分かりますが、真っ暗な中で校庭をぐるぐる回っていると、一体いつになったら終わりになるのか見当がつかないのです。
時間というのは区切りがないと、まるで一人で暗い宇宙を旅しているような錯覚に陥ります。 そうした意味で1 km ごとに音声案内をしてもらえると、時間に区切りができますので、とても走りやすくなります。
今日は三日ぶりですので校庭でのランニング時間を45分に合わせてスタートしました。結局今日は今月9回目のランニングで9.85 km を走り、通算76.57 km を積み重ね、月100 km 走までは残り9日で23.42 km のところまで来ました。 1時間2分46秒走りキロあたり6分22秒のペースですから決して悪くはありません。