Week 8

Wow!!  I've been doing this for two whole months -- I still have to "make" myself do a workout but it's great to look back and see that I actually DO have the willpower to continue this . . . I've heard that something must be done for 90 days before it becomes a habit, it must be somewhat true because I'm at the point where I hate missing a workout . . .  

here's the numbers:  

M - 25 mins

T - 20

W - 20

Th - 30

F - one hour mountain hike

Sa - 40 

Su - 10 

That mountain hike knocked me out!  My legs/feet weren't used to upward climbing and doing actual work, that's one of the downfalls of living in a huge city:  so much pollution and bad smells and crowdedness it's hard to get out as often as we should.  Now that the rainy season is finally over we can start to do some more hiking.  All we have to watch out for now is the "hwangsa" -- ie yellow dust -- THAT really does a number on our tender, soft, clean lungs, but it doesn't seem to affect Koreans at all.  We watch the "Yellow Dust Monitor" (google it) to check how bad it is, anything above 50 we won't leave the apt. . .  .!

AND this week we stopped running the AC!!  It ran ALLLLLL summer long, to combat the mugginess and dankness and ickiness that permeates Korean houses during the summer.  Well, Japan was just as bad, except running the AC there is pretty much like taking money and burning it w/ a match, it's sooooo expensive to run the AC or heat in that country.  Here in Korea, it's pricey enough but not as bad and totally worth it!