Scary Story Time at Talking Club

One of my cuter students tells me a story about a ghost that decapitates a woman and terrorizes her friends.

2011 Adidas MBC Marathon

Me and Jue post race

On Sunday I ran another 10km!

This race was massive. Sponsored by Adidas, it had around 18,000 runners and a large sponsored area with games, contests, and samples.

I have been doing lots of bootcamp lately, and training for Ultimate on the weekends (though not actually training for the race), so I was a little nervous about how I would do in the run.

I finished with a time of 1:04:57! boo yeah!

After the race I literally kept running until I got to the free massage tent, where I snagged a spot in line and a lovely post run massage. Then we got our race lootbags and celebrated by going to a 2 hour buffet that afternoon.

I went home feeling pleased, although my body wasn't happy... both my legs and my stomach!

Hiking Mt. Bukhansan

On Saturday a group of us went hiking in Bukhansan National Park. Located in the northwest of Seoul, we were able to take the subway (brown line 6) all the way to the end and walk to the trail entrance!

Made it to the top!

Our hiking adventure lasted just over 4 hours and was tougher than I thought it would be. There were many parts of the trail that were built, however our route meant large sections of climbing up around fairly large, steep, granite rocks on unmarked trails.

The views at the top were fantastic (minus a large antenna tower crudely disguised as a tree). We could see other mountains far in the distance, as well as a large chunk of the city.

On the way down we stopped at a makoli tent to fill our bellies with haemul-pajon (seafood pancakes) and makoli (rice wine). Being the only patrons at the restaurant, I think they sensed we had no idea how far we were from the subway anymore and offered to drive us back.

My knees are still hurting, days later, but that will pass. Overall, GREAT HIKE!

click below to see more photos from the hike!