Go to the office by bicycle

I have three colleagues who sometimes take their bicycle to work. Two of them live near our company Azabu-juban, Komagome, but one lives in Chiba, far from our company. He told me that it takes about 90 minutes. Each time he takes his bicycle, he seems physically tired, but mentally refreshed.

I live in Kamata, which is far from our office, so I never thought about taking my bicycle to work. However, one day, the idea crossed my mind that I might have fun if I went by bicycle.

Most of long distance cyclists have racing bicycles that are designed for road cycling. However I can’t afford me. I had no choice but to use my “mamachari”, city bicycle.

I thought that it would take 90 minutes from my home to our office, so I started 90 minutes before work.

About 30 minutes later, I was disappointed that my bicycle was slow. Some racing bicycles overtook me in an instant. Moreover, my tires were about to go flat. I noticed that my “mamachari” can’T go for longer than 90 minutes. Besides, I lost my way and wandered into a strange place when I looked for back streets where there were few cars. Because of this, I was late for the office. There was sweat all in the back of my shirt when I arrived at the office. I was very refreshed, but very tired before beginning work.

In total, U cycled for about 200minutes that day. Because of this, my muscles were stiff and sore.

Too much delicious food

I hadn’t returned my hometown for 6 years for New Year’s holidays because airline tickets during the holidays are very expensive. However I decided to go my parents house with my wife this year. It was the first time for her to spend “Oshogatsu” in Saga. She was looking forward to. So I bought discount tickets, it still cost 100, 000 Yen in all.

My parents were excited that we were coming for New Year. We ate and drunk a lot everyday from December 29 when we arrived at Saga to January 3 when returned to Tokyo. We ate a lot of things like oysters, crabs, turban shells and sashimi. My wife doesn’t eat so much and what’s more she and her family don’t have custom of drinking everyday even during New Year’s holiday. However my parents said to her “Don’t hold back! Please eat and drink as much as you want”. Actually, she didn’t want to eat any more, but forced herself to eat much more to meet their expectations. The food was good, but there was too much to eat.

Of course we gained weight. We had a lot of delicious food and we ere very tired.