What ever it takes!

8 easy miles mostly on dirt trail.  I was still a little beat up from my 30 miler but not as bad as it could have been.  I wore my softest cushy arch support shoes which helped the foot a lot.  Quads were a little sore.

Somehow I woke up in China again this morning, I'm not sure how that keeps happening I don't really like it here.  I'm in Beijing again but I'm downtown right next to Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.  Problem with that is I don't know where to run, not even sure if there is any place to run around here, at least in the Olympic Village there is forest park.

Woke up this morning, well slept actually and went down to the gym, 30 minutes on the elliptical followed by weights.  I plan on running a fair amount this week happy the gym is a 24 hour one.

This seemed like a really good workout while I was doing it, not so great after I got back and converted it to miles from kilometers.

The treadmills at this hotel apparently don't ever need to reset, I was expecting to have to reset at 60 minutes but it kept going, then I thought it would reset at 100 minutes, nope just kept going.  So a stop-less 22.5 km progressive run.

It's not nearly as humid here as it was in Macau but that gym was really stuffy and I was sweating almost as bad towards the end.

14 miles in 1:47:21

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PM.  Actually planned on running this afternoon but I wasn't sure my body was quite ready for doubles so 40 minutes on the elliptical instead. 

I then went to Authentic Chinese dinner with authentic Chinese people.  I told them it couldn't have eyes still on it, it couldn't have bones still in it, and it couldn't slither when it moved.  That still wasn't safe enough.  Luckily one of the guys was Muslim and was opposed to eating turtle.

Wow, rough morning.  I didn't sleep good at all last night, woke up feeling like a cold is coming on and last nights dinner is really causing my stomach fits.  Hope it's nothing serious.

12 miles on the treadmill in 1:35:00.  Plan was 14 but I was done at 12.  If I'm feeling better tomorrow I may try for a long treadmill run, I really just have no desire to go run outside.  I've been told there is a park next to Forbidden City I could run in but I just don't feel like dealing with people.  At 5:00am I have the entire gym to myself.

I connected my cell phone to my company VPN over cellular data last night and forgot to turn it off.  When I got up this morning I noticed it and went to look at my usage.  Sure enough I'd eaten up almost a Gig worth of data on my 300MB international plan.  I went and bumped it up to 800MB the most possible but I'm still over.  Hope my bill isn't too outrageous.  I guess the rest of my trip will be in the dark ages.

Wow!  I am not OK.  Being sick in a foreign country really sucks.  I was up all night coughing and just trying to breath.  I'm not sure if its the air or what.  I was planning on running long today but when I started to run I felt sick and achy so I stopped.

30 minutes on the stairmaster 120 Flights

60 minutes walking on the treadmill at 9% incline.  4 miles in 1 hour.  That was actually a really hard workout.

So I know this isn't the forum for this but it's the only forum I have. 

I was out to dinner with my Co-Worker and his wife who is native to Beijing the other night and we were talking, at the time it seemed like normal cultural chit chat but after thinking more about it I am very disturbed by the whole thing.  I'll try to make this short and to the point but I was telling them they should come to America sometime, maybe for a work trip to Salt Lake, she told me she is afraid of America because "everyone has guns" I told her I didn't have guns and there is nothing to worry about.  Anyway, I started thinking about this more.  Here is a person that lives in a country where the Air is unfit to breath, Water is unfit to drink, people smuggle in baby formula for their children because the milk is dangerous, most meat products are tainted with some bacteria, a Chinese company just bought out a US pork distributor for 4.3 Billion dollars because their pork crop is all bad so they need to import it from America, and 1000's of babies are being aborted or just left to die every day because it is not legal to have more than 1 child per family, and she is afraid of guns in America.  I'm not even sure where else to go with this but the whole thing is very disturbing.  I don't want to get into Gun rights, or Abortion on this blog but seriously we are so lucky to live in America.  And that's all I have to say about that.