So I was up at 6am on Saturday to make a 7 am meet down at the bottom of the hill. The group climbed up the old fashioned way, peddle peddle, sweat sweat. I managed to make the entire climb (about 4km up?) without stopping. I wanted to stop for a break, but I think pride was f***ing with me and I pressed on. Thinking back, 2 months of the Cruel Tutalage of Sensei Sakurai may have had something to do with my trip up.This is a picture of me and owner of Naruoka Cycle in Shimada, his name escapes me of course. But thats not the point. Check out the view.
We made it to the top and a little bit of down was followed by some more up. Ach! Eventually we made it to the entrance of the main part of the trail. The ride began and It was nice and fairly easy. Lots of loamy loose ground tho, so I took it easy until I could get used riding with a lot of slip and slide.
The ride down only lasted about 20 minutes. I was wondering how you could get to the bottom of a hill when all you were doing was riding up the f***ing thing. Im not complaining though. It's nice to be plugged in here and finally able to some honest riding. The morning was nice and cool and there was no complaining about the view.
In other news, Sensei was finally able to bring his computer over. I installed a new hard drive and put windows on it. Sensei was nice enough to hang around and translate the Japanese text so I could finish the install. He has some files on his old HD which is in it's death throws. I hope I can get his email back, he's got a lot of stuff there that he can't get back. As a reward for helping him with his computer he brought over a whole flat of beer. And this while I thought helping him with his computer was just my chance to help give something back for the opportunity to be in Japan. He is very generous indeed. The man gives everything and I have not been able to give much back yet. I hope that changes.
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