15 Miles from Beijing...

"See China Right in Front of you..." Lyrics from one of U2's greatest: "Its a Beautiful day." I actually sanng that out loud during mile five of a 15 mile run through the streets of Beijing today, Saturday, September 22, 2007.

I had not planned on running 15 miles, but I ended up doing so. I left my hotel which is located near many of the big embassies here in Beijing, and headed West (I think it was West) towards Tieneman Square. I arrived at the square and ran right past the Portrait of Chairman Mao. I had knocked off 2.5 miles and felt great. My garmin GPS watch worked perfectly here. I hit 5 miles and felt great. Another 2 and I was fine. I had run 7 miles. I passed the CCTV (Chinese Telvision) High Rise and finally crossed over the street and headed in the opposite direction at mile 7.15. I had been buying bottled water every 2 miles and had finished 4 by then. Only 30 cents for what would have cost $2.00 easy in the states. I hit 10 miles and at 11.5 miles arrived back at Tieneman Square. I made my way through the square as I made a right.

They are getting ready for the Chinese National Holiday next week so they were building magnificante garden sculptures mostly doing with the Olympics. Beijing and China are no doubt thrilled about hostin the games next year. In the square, I truly started to tire. I broke a cardinal rule which says I am not supposed to do a long run like this for at least 2 weeks. I just had done 20 miles last Saturday. I walked quite a bit before finally arriving at the hotel having completed 15 miles.

It was a great day today:

*Tons of people out on the streets
*I kept singing out loud, they could care less. Did not even turn around
*Beijing goes on for miles and miles and miles.
*It was a beautiful day...Sunny and about 85 degrees, low humidity.

We went to an awesome dinner with customers tonight and here I am updating the blog!

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