I ran this morning. And I did LSD for the first time in a long time. In other words, you can run slowly for as long a time as possible, called the Long Slow Distance. I woke up at 5 am this morning and was able to get ready without a hitch.
I ended up running 2 hours, 16 minutes and 51 seconds and was able to accumulate 17.73 km. Along the way, I felt pain in my right knee and then the inside of my left thigh, so I had to do some bending exercises about four times. Still, this was just enough time to finish running a half marathon, so I was very happy that I was able to keep running no matter what.
The Chitose JAL international marathon on June 7th, which I was looking forward to, was cancelled because of the problem of the new type coronavirus infection, and I lost my enthusiasm. The goal has disappeared.
This morning it was just right, not too hot, not too cold. It’s a little before 9 o’clock now, but the wind seems to be picking up. However, during the time I was running, there was not much wind and it was very crisp blue sky and air and I am glad I took the plunge and tried LSD.
I’ve now accumulated 92.34km in 12 runs this month and have 7.65km with 4 days left to run 100km a month. I think I’ll be able to achieve my goal.
It was the Sunday before the big holiday season, and the whole country had been asked to refrain from going out, so I didn’t pass many cars this morning, even as I was running. Of course, there was a fair amount of traffic on Bypass 1, but compared to what we usually see, it’s a lot less.
According to a TV report yesterday, there were two times on the Tokaido Shinkansen that the free seat occupancy rate was 0%. Isn’t this the first time since the Tokaido Shinkansen began operating?
In a similar program, a scene at the Shibuya intersection was shown, which seemed to me like a fictional image created by computer graphics. It felt like a strange image, as if something had been attached to it. The streets are really sparsely populated. But it’s real.
In this morning’s TV program, some experts commented on the voluntary restraint of pachinko parlors. There are many statements that it is inexcusable that they don’t comply with requests, and they are called unpatriotic. However, I found myself wondering somewhat.
I feel that they are deliberately hiding important things while making a mockery of pachinko parlors. When the press starts hanging someone or something up, it’s often correct to think that it’s trying to cover something up.
We’ve been ripped off a lot. We are still being duped.
In the general election when Prime Minister Koizumi questioned postal privatization, he asked, “Can’t post office workers be civil servants? He appealed to the public and won a great deal of sympathy. But Prime Minister Koizumi’s real goal was not the employees of the post office, but how to get our precious postal savings to the United States.
We are merely fooled by our blindness. We are still making the same mistakes over and over again. It’s apparently true that Agriculture, Forestry and Postal Savings are buying up mountains of American scum-like bonds.
How much of the nation’s wealth will be lost as a result of the financial collapse brought about by the coronavirus crisis? They are simply being sucked into the dumps by America’s greedy credit and financial system.
They are still doing the same thing, even though they lost orders of magnitude during the Lehman shock in 2008. When is the Japanese people going to wake up? Those who say they are for the sake of the Japanese, but are actually running the country like dogs on Wall Street in the US.
Japan is really a colony. There will be no real independence of Japan unless we get out of it.
After the collapse of American unipolar rule, we must think for ourselves, seriously consider how we will live in Asia and in the world, and build our future.