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10 September 2010 01:46 am (GMT+09:00) Seoul

Since I decided to run in the Sahara desert, I have been writing my running diary on Naver Blog, one of popular blog sites in Korea.
http://blog.naver.com/gohuigang

It was my first blog. Running in desert and to do that running regularly in daily life were all first time. Yes, since registering the Sahara Race so many new things are happening around me and it is of course NOT bad at all.

What I concerned most was I am not good at running. I was not runner. I am rather  hiker or walker as I used to go to mountain with rock climbing during college years. So, I began to run just after paying the competition fee, a big money to me, and wrote about new running experience on blog, otherwise I might be easily skipping my workout. My plan looked go pretty well without that many skips : - D at the begining.  I  finally installed D-day widget on blog and counting D-day. 

These days, however, I faced a troublesome, the Korean monsoon season. It rains almost every day between hot and humid summer time from July to late September but this year it is Super heavy raining especially this September.

Yesterday, I wanted to go running along the park nearby house and was just about to leave. It started to rain with fierce thunderstorm and this kind of weather has continued for 2-3 weeks, which makes me depressed and I have to turn to gym. (I do not like fitness center that much.)

Here in Seoul it seems that the sky has a giant super hole to pour only my place. 
So that I pray and pray wishing tomorrow is sunny. 

Please stop raining.

Comments: Total (3) comments

Posted On: 11 Sep 2010 10:30 am

Thanks you guys, Andre and Sam. I am gonna enjoy this endless-like raining in Seoul as much as I can before leaving here and there Sahara must be scorching. : - D

Posted On: 10 Sep 2010 03:02 pm

Hi Eun! Sorry about the rain. I think its funny how you are in the solar energy business and you are going to the Sahara Desert. You must love the sun. Yet you are in a monsoon season and it is preventing you from training outside. I say push through all of the wet and damp rain conditions and use your inner strength that has gotten you this far, and in the desert you will have all the energy in the world as the solar superstar! Cheers, Andre

Posted On: 10 Sep 2010 10:13 am

We hope it stops raining for you too! Hang in there for the last couple of weeks of training, and then enjoy the tapering. Good luck with the final preps! Sam H - RacingThePlanet