The Week #209

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  • 🌴 I took a day off work, my first day off that wasn't for taking care of a sick kid since probably...the start of the year-ish? Far too long. Naturally, it rained real good. Not one to be deterred by some rain I went to Kamakura, which thanks to said rain, was quieter than normal. This enabled us to get lunch at Oxymoron, which usually as 90 minute wait. Afterwards we dropped by Patagonia to look around and ended up buying some new running shorts for myself and a swimsuit / UV shirt for Leo.
  • 🏃‍♂️ Running continues. This week one of my runs was a proper "LSD" run ((Long, slow, distance) this maybe a Japanese running term???) where I ran for an hour. I've run for an hour in the past, but not in the last few years. A weekly long run sounds like a worth goal I should have, but for now "every so often" is sufficient. Lowering the barrier for a run such that pace, time, and distance do not matter is what keeps me getting out there.
  • 🗺️ Back when handheld GPS units started becoming a thing, I always wanted to try Geocaching. Geocaching is a game where someone hides something at some geocoordinates and you go find it. I never had the money for a unit in high school so I kinda forgot about it – until this week.

    Leo and my bonding time is usually on the weekends and I've grown tired of going out to the Aquarium or hanging around the house trying to kill time (that one is actually kinda stressful). Historically Leo has been the type of kind to walk 10 steps then "get tired", but lately that isn't the case.

    I asked Leo if he wanted to go on a treasure hunt with me and that according to this app, someone left something over at a local park. He got his backpack, put some snacks in it, and walked, uphill, the entire way to the park. In the end we were unsuccessful in finding the caches but he kept in good spirits the entire time. He even said he wants to go treasure hunting with all 3 of us.
  • 🚲 I rode bikes with Leo both days this weekend. The second and longer ride we went to Ito Yokado. This is the same place we went a few weeks back for Leo's longest ride and he did it again like a champ. While there he didn't have a meltdown about not being able to play the crane games (successful communication ftw!). On the way back we went a bit further to our local family run Onigiri place and bought lunch. I don't have a basket on my cross-bike, so Leo put them in his and carried them home.  Riding bikes with the boy is super fun.
    Picking up rice balls
  • 🚲 This ride above was also the first one with my new grips on bike. Replacing them was easy-peasy. Peel off the old ones and a bit of alcohol to clean the bar and slide on the new ones.
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