Friday, May 06, 2005
3333 steps
A couple of friends came up from Amakusa the other day. For some reason, one of them, Kensei, wanted to climb the 3333 steps which are near my house. I think it had been his dream to climb the steps ever since he was a child. I guess the steps were more famous than I thought. Meanwhile, my other friend Yuichi and I weren't really into the whole hiking thing, but since Kensei was visiting from Amakusa via Vancouver, we thought we'd let him choose the day's schedule.
So we embarked on our hike, everyone with a 2 litre of their favourite drink. Yuichi hiked in camouflage cargo pants, and Kensei in jeans. Needless to say, they hadn't done such a good job preparing. I had shorts and a sweat preventing coolmax shirt on.
People tend to think that steps are easy, but they weren't. Especially with 3333 of them. We took our time, making sure we had ample time for breaks or what not. We knew Kensei was the most fit, but between Yuichi's smoking and my not-built-for-excercise body, we wondered who was the most unfit.
After like 2 hours, we reached the top, appropriately all arriving at the 3333 step at the same time. Going down was pretty easy, and it was much faster, though plenty of people told us that going down is what kills.
Anyway we did it...I thought I should do it at least once while I live here, but actually my more ambitious plan is to do it every Monday after school since there's no baseball practice on Monday's and that's the only day the gym isn't open. We'll see if I hold myself to it, and if I do, how it goes.
So we embarked on our hike, everyone with a 2 litre of their favourite drink. Yuichi hiked in camouflage cargo pants, and Kensei in jeans. Needless to say, they hadn't done such a good job preparing. I had shorts and a sweat preventing coolmax shirt on.
People tend to think that steps are easy, but they weren't. Especially with 3333 of them. We took our time, making sure we had ample time for breaks or what not. We knew Kensei was the most fit, but between Yuichi's smoking and my not-built-for-excercise body, we wondered who was the most unfit.
After like 2 hours, we reached the top, appropriately all arriving at the 3333 step at the same time. Going down was pretty easy, and it was much faster, though plenty of people told us that going down is what kills.
Anyway we did it...I thought I should do it at least once while I live here, but actually my more ambitious plan is to do it every Monday after school since there's no baseball practice on Monday's and that's the only day the gym isn't open. We'll see if I hold myself to it, and if I do, how it goes.
