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How much do you exercise? How fit do you think you are?
Come rain or shine I almost always commute to and from school and work every day. I clock up to eighty minutes a day just on riding my bicycle alone. Add that to twenty minutes of daily housework and that adds up to a hundred minutes. It is healthy and I am burning off energy, but is that really exercise? It’s a routine thing for me and I wouldn’t consider it as exercise, so I try to run for at least thirty minutes on my days off, just to get my heart pumping. For me it’s not much and I wish I could do more. I’m not as fit as I used to be, however summer is my favorite season and I love going out and being active. One of my short-term goals for this season is to get fit.
How are you keeping in shape? Are you more, or less active in summer?

I went to the seaside yesterday and it was wonderful! I have always found something very relaxing, and healing from being by the sea. I love the feeling of walking on sand, it’s a connection with the Earth that I don’t experience when I’m wearing shoes. Although it is frustrating how sticky it can be – I know I’ll be finding sand everywhere for a while now.
I also enjoy paddling, it’s a lovely refreshing feeling. The water was still a little too cold for me to venture all the way in, but a paddle was enjoyable. I managed to catch most of the sunset before getting the last bus home. I hope that this was the first trip of many to the sea shore for this year.

As I mentioned in a previous post, June is my least favorite time in Japan. I found another reason other than it being the wettest month on the calendar. There are fifteen public holidays per year, but none fall in June! I know that it’s a measly little thing to complain about compared to some countries with less than ten public holidays a year. But, really? Why stop at fifteen?
Each month has at least one public holiday with five of them observing and honoring nature. There’s Spring Equinox in March, Greenery Day in May, my favorite one which is Marine Day in July, Mountain Day in August, and Autumn Equinox in September. If I could create a public holiday in June, I’d name it Rain Day or Water Day. Sound silly? What do you think? If you could come up with a public holiday in June, what would you name it?

There are so many great TV shows out there, do you have a favourite? I haven’t had a television in quite some time, but there are a number of sites, such as NetFlix which enables me to keep up with my favourite shows. One of the reasons that I prefer this method of watching entertainment is that I have the choice of when and, to a certain extent, where I watch these programmes. There is a large library of different categories – comedy, drama, sci-fi, documentaries – so I can choose my entertainment according to my mood and energy levels.
One particularly traditional area of British TV are detective series’. There are a great many detectives we grow up with, solving murder mysteries all over the country. Often, there are specials aired during a bank holiday weekend and we can watch as a family. Do you have a favourite detective?

Running and cycling are both excellent forms of aerobic exercise. Both allow you to engage large muscle groups in a sustained activity, which elevates your heart rate and delivers a wide variety of health benefits. Running burns more calories than cycling, and it can make your heart work a little harder. According to experts at Harvard Medical School, the heart rates of trained triathletes tend to be six to 10 beats per minute higher when they are running than when they are cycling.