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Over the past years I’ve been able to keep myself basically in a healthy status, exercised regularly – every day during the school and university days and almost regularly since graduation over the past 23 years or so. And since 2002, I have been keeping climbing mountains every day here in Hangzhou to refresh myself. And now I spend more than 3 hours a day on sport or exercises, incl. 45 min. morning walking or biking, 1.5 mountain climbing in the afternoon and another 45 min. evening exercise of fitness devices outdoors. Occasionally I also participate in Alpinist group’s activities. My ideal sport time allocation is 8 hours a day! I have also kept a good diet habitat, never eat too much fat or too high calories. Basically I am a vegetarian. Of course over the time some chronic illnesses occurred such as throat sore and stomach pain sometimes. I am combating to eliminate these illnesses in a year or two. |
Generally I spend more than 2 hours a day or so on sport or exercises, incl. 30 min. morning walking or biking, and a little more than 1 hour walking or jogging in the afternoon or evening depending on the seasons. And I go to the nearby small hills to climb an hour or so every other day. I used to play basketball every day at time of university and long running was my everyday must – 5000 meter a day. Later at Daya Bay, I played tennis everyday for 2 years. I have also learned table tennis, volley ball and other sports like others, but seldom practiced since graduation. |
During the 2003-2011 period in Hangzhou, I climbed mountains everyday. I enjoyed the mountains so much that I have even given up million dollar job offers from Shanghai. I prefer to live among the mountains quietely than in the cities especially big cities. |
But since I came to my home village in 2013, I don't have much chance to go mountaineering, because these is no mountains here. 5 km away there is a low hill called Donglin Hill, where I was going once a week or so when my mother was still there (,before March 2016). Afterwards I very seldomly go to the Hill, and instead I just take an one hour jogging almost everyday in the vicinity. At first I also walk out in the morning, but now I only walk along the little roads in the afternoon before evening and sunsetting. It is very dangerous to walk in the evening when it is dark, for the cars here are driving like mad. |
I will keep exercising to the extremity – as much as possible. At the moment the main sport is mountain climbing. Plus morning, and evening fitness.I will keep my vegetarian diet, stay away from fat and high calories. I will endeavor to make myself as strong as possible, even at the cost of anything else such as job and money.
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Mountaineering爬山 |
I will talk about my story with mountaineering in greater details in my biography in Hangzhou. I started to climb mountains continuously since sometimes – perhaps in April – in 2003 or 2002. I remember very well, during the first time of my mountain climb, I encountered a girl there and talked a bit. At that time I still looked very young, like in my eargy 20’s, also actually I am already 40. Since coming to Huzhou, I have much less chance to go mountaineering, because first they are more distant to my new home, second, there are only one, apparently, where one can relatively conveniently climb the hills, and even this one was not open to public until October 2011, half a year later after my arrival at Huzhou city. And this is only a solitary hill, not linked with other mountains. The Mt Renghuang was located 25 minutes bike distance in northwest of the town to my temporary residence, as shown below (from home to Mt Renghuang – about 3 km): Nevertheless, I went to climb the socalled 仁皇山 Mt Renghuang, situated in northwest of the city, sometime in early July or late June, 2011, and I found there was wet mud everywhere on the hill path. Unlike those in Hangzhou, the newly paved hill roads were rinsed with rainwater after a raining and therefore the roards were extremely hard to go through. There were little mountaineering after these two and apparently I didn’t go there for two months or so, as on November 5, 2011, I wrote: Resuming mountaineering: The weather these days looked quite warm. In later autumn, the temperature is still wandering around high 25 and low 15 degree celsius and I don’t wear too much: at home: I need only a shirt and a jacket. Raining is rare, so that the street is full of dust. I can feel the dust when I ride my bike on the street – here in Huzhou, I don’t ride bike very much, over the last months, because now I very seldom go to the mountain, which is 30 minutes of bike riding distant. Without mountaineering, my muscle has been shrinking quickly, as seen from the knees and legs. Therefore I decided to go to mountains again, at least twice a week. While in Hangzhou, I kept mountaineering every day, so that I have kept me quite strong. I didn’t record much about my mountaineering in my diary, and the next time it was already December 30, 2012 next year that something was worth noting, for example, my diary said, it was snowing heavily yesterday, temperature dropped to minus 6 Celsius and the water pipe at home was frozen, and I was unable to wash and cook, and thus I have to walk outdoors and enjoyed my sun shining. After half an hour walking, this time southwards, along the No 104 National Way, that is, Hangchangqiao Nanlu 杭长桥南路, I stumbled upon a finding that the Mt Daochang 道场山 is in fact not far away, about 40 min walking distance. I thought in the future I may go there for mountaineering, not Mt Renhuang. I thought I didn’t need half an hour bike riding, as needed to reach Renhuang. I thought I needed only about 15 minutes to reach Daochang Mountain, and I also thought climbing the Daochang Mountain will be feeling much better, because there must be fewer people and fewer artificial roads. (the original Chinese texts: 昨天下大雪。温度降到零下六度，水管冻老了，无法洗脸做饭，只好到外面散步晒太阳。 走了一个半小时，一直沿着104国道也就是杭长桥南路往南走。无意中发现那边的道场山其实不远，走路40分钟，自行车大概15分钟就到了。今后可以到那里去爬山，而不用骑车半小时到仁皇山了。而且道场山应该山的感觉更好些.) However, on January 2, 2013, only one day afterwards, I could not find a path leading to the hill tips, thus I still have to ride half an hour bike to climb the Mt Renhuang. Mountaineering has been, is and will be my real, only and greatest ambition, mission and life target of mine, not math, not languages, not money, nor women, nothing else. Over the last decade, since 2003, my life was dominated by mountains and mountaineering, and there shall be lots of stories out there on the mountains, but incredibly there was virtually nothing in my diary related to mountaineering, perhaps because this is my daily activity and I considered it routine and not those events which posed out very remarkably. Yet there shall be many stories to write. Because each time when I go to mountains, I always meet with new people, the landscape varies from season to season, and even from day to day – raining, snowing, wind, storm, and each day, the sun is new. It is a great pleasure to see the sun setting. It is also a great joy to hear to birds singing, and to watch all kinds of people passing by you; it is also relaxing in the fresh air atop the mountains. To touch the soil, the real soil of the mountains, to tread on the soil with my feet, to find the cats, and even snakes there, and to see the leaves falling, the flowers blossoming, and fruits on trees, and in one world, to enjoy the beautiful, no, wonderful Nature, is the greatest pleasure of life. How I am happy to live with the Nature? I shall continue with my stories with mountaineering later on in this part of my biography. So far for today. |
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