Training Log Archive: mjulius

Bus to Doulio then train to Chiayi. Long afternoon walk around Chiayi with Hannah. Tired Mazu worshipers who must carry the icons up and down every single street in the city. Rocking them in intersections, bouncing the icons on specially made chariots. Some teenage boys carrying long spears tell Hannah that they want to go home. They are wearing wet towels on their heads. A sleeping warrior on a wicker bench. Bored men pounding a drum out of rhythm. Money burnt at each storefront and random fireworks.

Neighborhood & track. Sprints x4.

Neighborhood & twice around the track with a couple of easy sprints.

Walking through Huwei looking for what? I guess pictures [the fish weren't biting, sadly]. Drilling deeper into this town and finding some alleyways that permeate the neighborhoods surrounding the central circle. Just a bent up space between some iterative construction but a space that I hadn't seen before. Little capillaries finger their way towards dead-ends, behind restaurants or into morning meat markets, closed in the quiet afternoon.

Hard floor. Muddy muddled and distracted.

Neighborhood and twice around the track. Feels good to run.

Afternoon ride with Hannah through Dounan and then to the foothills just beyond Gukeng & 'Fancy World' [Guilin Village]. I was feeling sluggish and uninspired for much of the ride but then better after an ice cold coconut milk. Quick downhill return to ravish some bottomless hotpot. "Two Sprites?", she says. "Well, yeah."