I’m pretty behind on achieving this destination as I slacked in February thanks to the Floor Stooges, recuperated a tad in March, then repeated the slacking in April for reasons I cannot remember as being valid. For May I’m really pushing myself harder. With the Challenges app, I broke up my team of friends/family into their own Texas Team (Jeremy, Anje and Kathy) versus me with a new friend (Jake) I made recently who is a fellow Warrior, Hilltopper or Golden Eagle, that’s right, a Marquetter! So the May exercise challenge is the Texas grads (SMU, A&M and UT) versus os Marquette Yankees. Sure it’s two versus three but that just makes Jake and me work harder. To be fair, I’ve tried and tried to recruit José or Nelson to no avail. José just doesn’t give a crap even though his dog walking would help out immensely and Nelson gave his Apple Watch to his oldest child, who doesn’t answer my calls. Luckily, Jake’s into kickboxing as a workout and I’m trying harder to get the Planet Fitness timing down to make it to work on schedule. Thankfully, my rotational team let me go back to an 8:30 AM start time. It’s great to be treated as an adult at my career for the first time in over 20 years.
Today it paid off! I arrived at Tokyo and boy do they have a pretty cool flag. I would’ve never thought the Japanese would go with purple for their most famous and populous city. Hell I don’t even think purple is in their design sense. Good for them. It makes their flag much more interesting than the Europeans lazily imitating each other or American cities reusing the same old boring colors with slogans in Latin nobody understands.
My next destination on the agenda is a city has remained controversial since 1949, Beijing or when I was growing up, Peking. I barely remember when the name change from the Cantonese dialect to Mandarin happened. It is over 7100 miles from my house and the progression will be easier than Tokyo. The bigger concern is making up the mileage I lost in February and April. The overall objective for 2022 is to complete 3652.4 miles or roughly around 10 miles/day. I’m down by roughly 200 today (~20 days). Even if I pull off 16/day, I keep “losing four” so it’s going to be a while until I achieve parity. I’m guessing June and I think I might tie or beat my 73-day streak which would be July.