Monday, October 11, 2010

A day out

Yesterday I had my first and only day off since I started. I started the day off by running to a close mountain, then found a trail that went up (like straight up). It was great though! I'm really close to a trail, thats good news! I hiked up to a false summit, and was able to look out over my part of Daegu, and then further up the valley on the other side. So nice to get out.
I then took the subway up to the Duryu park. It is a big park north of where I live. There was a big singing festival going on, and there is a amusement park up there. I climbed to the top of a hill and watched the sunset. I'll post some of those pictures soon.
On a side note, I wanted to mention how funny Korean hikers are... they were all staring at me as I went by (which I thought was normal, at least they weren't pointing and laughing [which has happened]). I noticed that they were staring at me because I was just wearing a t-shirt and running shorts. They were ALL decked out in the highest tech mountaineering gear (polls, gore-tex hats and everything). A short little hike, and they are ready to climb everest. Love it.
Gotta go hang up my laundry.