I haven't gotten around to posting my weekly workouts 'cos frankly these last two weeks have been BAD. In Seoul, where I live now, there is a seasonal condition called "hwang-sa" -- meaning "yellow dust". This is a pale yellow, hideously grey and choking dust cloud which has been swept across the sea from China and deposited onto the Korean peninsula. It often reaches Japan, and has been found in small amounts on the US West Coast. Anyway, this hwang-sa is one of the most miserable things about living here -- you can't go hiking, running, in-like skating, etc. and it's even nasty to go outdoors during a bad bout of it. We shut all our windows and just hunker down, but we still have to go up to our college campus to teach . . . so there is no escape. It gets in your hair, lungs, teeth, everything -- a horrible hollow, wheezy feeling deep in your bronchial tubes . . . and we just had to endure it for two weeks.
My Korean students say they didn;t notice it, but I had classes filled w/ red-eyed, sniffling students so I think they're in denial. Perhaps my lungs are just extra tender and fresh, having lived in quite nice areas of the world and have been lucky to grow up in natural surroundinds w/ plenty of fresh air . . . but then again i wouldn't want to have corroded, toughened-up lungs either.
So, my workouts have sort of sloughed off recently. . .
week 12
M -nothing, choking and gasping from dusty air
T - 20 mins, 45 squats
W - 15 mins, 45 squats
Th - 15 mins. 45 squats
F - 10 mins
Sa - 0
Su - 0
I'm so ashamed.
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