2 Feb - Morning Trail again

I returned to the Morning Trail to the Peak again today. I got a little later start because John is home from Bangkok & Malaysia, so I had breakfast with him. I decided to time myself this time so I'd have a better idea about this walk when I take someone along with me.

I set off from the apartment building & it was a 10 minute "uphill" walk to the start of the trail. It was a little easier going up, but I still sucked air a good bit. Since I got a later start there were not so many old folks out to make me feel inadequate. To the end of the uphill climb took 40 minutes, then 10 minutes around to the Peak. I tried to keep going non-stop, but the views from the next leg of the walk are just so spectacular, you can't not stop & admire. So with some limited viewing, that was 30 minutes. Then it was 20 minutes from the Lung Fu Shan Park to the bottom. I did not take the Pinewood Battery detore this time. I don't think my legs could have managed all those stairs, even going down. From the bottom is was just 5 minutes downhill to my apartment.

So less than 2 hours today. Hopefully I can do this a few times a week & I should be in good shape if I survive. At least my legs will be in good shape. I didn't feel like taking a camera today, but maybe I'll convince John to join me this weekend & we can take some pictures.

Not much else going on today. I'm going to head in to the office, John has a little (I hope) project for me. Then we are going to look at the new office across the harbor. We move in later this month. John said it was really funny when they were looking at offices, Ruby (our office manager) had to have her aunt come check out the new office to make sure the Feng Shui was good. If you don't know what this is, it has to do with positioning in relation to good & bad luck. People will place their furniture in a room according to Feng Shui for good karma. The aunt also told them what day of the month would be the luck day to move in and what day the couldn't move in. As modern & sophisticated as this city is, those traditional & sometimes very superstitious beliefs are still very prominent.