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July 31 China Trip Part III: Kangding, LitangAfter leaving Chengdu, I traveled by bus west to Kangding. This is what a chinese traffic jam looks like. This 1 hour delay was caused by road work. I also got stuck here on the way back. Kangding is the first semi-Tibetan town I went thru. While the whole area was cold... the clean air (just as clean as Tibet & Xin Jiang) made it worth the hardship.
 Onlyl good thing is that food arrives fast.
 Kangding
   Paoma Shan, Kangding
     On the road to Litang/Daocheng
 The weather in Western Sichuan was a lot colder than I expected. 7-13'c. Because I freezing to death I bought this Chinese Army coat to keep warm. i'm not a big fan of the Chinese Army, but, the coat was great and at 70RMB..how could I go wrong?
   Really neat how Tibetans write messages and post these prayer flags all over the mtns.
      Litang
    My driver arguing with one of the other passengers about his cargo. Gota pay more.
   This is how China ran and still runs. These little round blocks of coal power evrything from restaurant stoves to heat homes. While not as common in Beijing and Shanghai as they use to be, you still see them. The coal lady below is delivering this the entire load to the restaurant you see pictured.
  Road between Litang & DaoCheng.
  Book updateWhile I was traveling my stock book did pretty well. Here is the latest update. If I can get to +20K by the end of the year everyone is invited to the party.
China Trip Part I: Chengdu, Huanglong, and JiuzhaigouI was on the road for over 1.5 months and finally got home yesterday. I posted most of these pictures in mass on Facebook. I will repost seveal here (esp for my Chinese friends as facebook is blocked in China). You'll notice a lot of food in these pictures. Afterall, eating is a big part of Chinese life. First part of the trip involved taking the train from Beijing to Chengdu. I don't travel on Chinese trains too often anymore but must say that 軟座 is pretty nice. We shared a cabin with these 2 ABC girls and their grandmother from Texas. They were going to visit relatives in Chengdu.
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After arriving in Chengdu, the first thing we did was eat! Great leng 涼麵. The fish was good too (so I thought).
     Ever seen pineapple beer? I hadn't until this night.
 韓國包子 beakfast!
   Next stop... Jiuzhaigou
 This airport was located at 4100m! HIGH.
On the road to huang long.
     Huanglong was formed by a tn stream with high calcium deposits. Look at the colors.
      Jiuzhaigou
                                     Chengdu panda research center
  Best meal of the trip: 冷鍋魚
               July 30 First Hawaii WODBack home after 1.5 months on the road. Just did a 5.5km run. Not too bad but a little spent from the long flight. Back to crossfit tomorrow! July 28 Work Out of the Day Hong Kong VI Most likely my last HK Wod since I'm headed back home to Hawaii tomorrow. WOD: Max Rounds in 20mins: 15 hanging clean (95 lbs) 12 dips (should be ring dips but Cali no have so I had to use bars) 21 situps I made it thru 4 full rounds + 3 extra cleans. Also did 100 pushups at the end as a bonus. July 27 Work Out of the Day Hong Kong III 3km run up on Bowen Road today (and the 25 min walk up hill to get there). Just a terrible performance. Not sure if it was the hot humid weather (didn't bother me 2 days ago when I did the same run) but it took me almost 20 mins to do this route. Oh well... good days...bad days. July 26 Work Out of the Day Hong Kong II Went to Cali Fitness this morning and did a good WOD. Im in bad shape when it comes to weights! Work Out: 25-20-15-10-5 Push-Press (85 lbs) Situps Pushups Knees to elbows Time: 26:18 July 25 Work Out of the Day Hong Kong I WOD Hong Kong 1 Went to Cali Fitness this morning (I can use free with my 24 Hour card) at 715am and they were closed. How lame is that! Went to the park for more body weight workouts. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 -Handstand pushups -Squats -Pushups Time: 15:45 July 22 Rice Squats & PressesI haven't been able to work out with weights in some time as I'm traveling in rural China. So when I saw the locals carrying their brown rice around in these baskets it gave me an idea  This is what over head and front squats look like using baskets of rice. I also did a bunch of presses. Im guessing each basket weighed about 25-30 lbs (maybe a tad more) so this wasn't too difficult. Its nice to know that if I stuck around rural Guizhou, I could do more than just pushups and air squats.   July 20 凯里 (Kaili) WODStill had some energy leftover after climbing up the rice terraces today so I decided to tackle this nice set of stairs in Kaili. Workout: 10 Rounds + 1 Bonus Round 1 Round=Run up(feet must touch every step.. no skips), 12 pushups at the top, run down. Time: 23:38 for 11 rounds including the bonus.  July 16 Still in China... I'm in China for another week and half. It takes about 5 min to upload each picture here so I'm still not updating the blog (except for the few WODs) until I get back home. In the meantime, here are some 蒸菜 from Hunan. Changsha WOD I've been on the road well over a month and haven't done let alone posted a workout in weeks. I was up at over 4000m for most of the time and since I'm not use to that altitude, figured it was a good idea not to workout much. Here in Changsha, the problem is of a different sorts: heat. It was over 41' today so I had to wait until 5pm to move. So here it is... my first wod in about 2 weeks: 400m run followed by 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of ring dips (amazing the little park here has rings!) knees to elbows decline pushups followed by another 400m run Took me 20:36 to complete this in the wonderful 33' afternoon heat. |
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