Dentist Visit - CowParade Taipei 2009

Activities/Actions:

• A bike ride to and from dentist office at Zhongxiao Xinsheng.
• Visit Cows on Fubun Financial Plaza on Ren-Ai Rd. (2009 CowParade Taipei)

Stat & Course condition:

Date: 02/09/2009
Start Time: 09:26:00
End Time: 10:06:00
Time Taken: 00:40:00
Route: dentist office to Sinica
Total Distance: 6.89 mi.
Burned: 260 (kcal)
Pace: 05:47 (avg)
Speed: 10.34 (mi/hr) (avg)

Date: 02/09/2009
Start Time: 12:15:00
End Time: 12:41:00
Time Taken: 00:26:00
Route: dentist office
Total Distance: 5.40 mi.
Burned: 195 (kcal)
Pace: 05:32 (avg)
Speed: 10.8 (mi/hr) (avg)

(the biking direction is reversal of the previous dentist-visit bike trip).

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)
Physically 4
Mentally 5
About my nutrition 5
About my sleep 3


How hard did I work? 7
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
Arrived in lab early this morning to get ready for a ride out at 9:25A to a dentist office at Zhongxiao Xinsheng Junction for a half-year clean up after a flawed visit last time [วิ่งไม่หยุด: Walk and eat]. A cleaning was quick and there was nothing unusual. However, the dentist suggest me to clean gently in some area of the gum. Meng-shin and I had a lunch at Beard Chang Restaurant near the MRT Station before I rode back.

A group of fiberglass colorful cows in front of Fubon Financial Plaza on Ren-Ai Rd. drew my attention to park the bike and snapped photos of them. I recalled Chicago's Cow On Parade in 1999, when a heard of cows visited Downtown that Summer. Although I did not visit that event in person, I read of their visit in a commemorative book (I had a copy of this book somewhere).

Ten artistic imaginary cows are standing around the plaza inviting passersby to take a look at them. I am sure that more of their friends will be scattering around the City to welcome the Year of Ox. I will plan my own parade on bike to follow their hooves caravaning this year CowParade Taipei.

Photos:

眼球先生的異想世界 (Mr. Eyeball's World of Fantasy) has more than two eyes expressing multi-emotional withins in real and fantasy dimensions.

"My t-shirt pattern matches with 哞哞花花 (Moo-Moo-Hua-Hua)'s horns, and I am posting as beautifully as 水水牛 (Beauty Cow) standing behind."
(水水 is used in the Island's 閩南 dialect to describe the beauty, especially of a girl).

The bike parked right by the relaxing 悠悠牛 (Leisurely Cow) during a City's chaotic lunch time when office workers taking their lunch on Ren-Ai Rd.

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Recovery week 4 ended with 5K Race

Activities/Actions:
Week 4 of Recovery (scheduled)
Monday: 3 mile run with JJ and Yun-Huei (Rest)
Tuesday: 5 mile easy run (5-mile easy run)
Wednesday: 3 mile run; 27:06.9 min (5 mile fast run)
Thursday: 7.46 km; 40 min on a black TM (5-mile easy run)
Friday: 3.3km; 19 min (2 mile jogging)
Saturday: rest (Rest)
Sunday: 5K race on 1-mile TaiChi route (23:05 min) (5K/10K Race)

Stat & Course condition:
TO BE UPDATED.

Note and reflections:
Since I missed a long run last Saturday, I decided to run with JJ and Yun-Huei on Monday followed JJ's call. We ran at a comfortable pace along the usual 3-mile river route. The run was great in a very nice weather. For the rest of the week, I ran alone and followed the schedule except the run on Wednesday that totaled 3 miles when I felt tired and hungry. Thursday and Friday runs were plowing on treadmill.

Fun Race
After a trip to Banciao I decided to do a 5K race set up on the 1 mile TaiChi route on Sunday night. The run was good in a nice weather and I tried my best. The record was good (3.11 miles for 23.05 min; 7:26 min/mile--max pace: 5:33 min/mile).

Eye exam
On Wednesday morning, I went to do a three-month doctor visit for my eyes at TaiDa Hospital. The visit was fine except a difficulty of finding a clinic because of the construction of its old location. The doctor said that the eyes are fine and their ocular pressure was great and asked me to continue the eye drops. I had felt a bit tried around the right eyes for some days of the past three months, but I guess it was due to a restless period.

Photos:

A section of southern wall on the platform level of Nangang Station.

A witch flying on the southern wall of platform level in Nangang Station.

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Sick days

Activities/Actions:
Slept and slept....


Note and reflections:

After came back from the trip yesterday [วิ่งไม่หยุด: Walk and Train Ride in PingXi], I did not feel good and later had fever. I slept and cope with the fever for most of Friday night, the whole Saturday and Sunday. At the end of Sunday, I felt a bit better (did not have much fever anymore). I went to see a doctor on Monday morning before taking a bus to lab. The doctor said that my tonsil glads were inflammatory as I expected because I had a little sore throat since last Thursday [วิ่งไม่หยุด: the first run after the marathon]. In the evening, Pei-Ling and Kai-Yeh brought two beef buns from a famous store in Kun-Yang for me. This is very appreciated.

It was too bad that I was sick because the weather was nice on Saturday and relatively good on Sunday. :<

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Week 15 Tuesday

Activities/Actions:

• Urine Checkup - Fine
• Stretched and Strengthened
• Rest Day b/x of heatwave

Stat:

Course condition:

How I felt:
(the 5-point scale)

• Physically 5
• Mentally 4
• About my nutrition 4
• About my sleep 4

How hard did I work? 4
(the 10-point scale)

Note and reflections:
My schedule is a bit abnormal today; A rest day... I drop P' Tee and P' Por off this morning at Midway Airport.

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I have a urine check up to day, following a recommend from a doctor in Thailand when I had a visit in March. The check today show a normal result.

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