今日は、あるイベントで都内を15km歩いてきました。（遅れた終電で帰宅したライブの日の翌日で６時半に起きた自分に驚きつつ。）昨日の雨が嘘のように晴れた今日は、ウォーキングにはまだ少し暑いくらいの陽気で、案の定腕が真っ赤です。コースは六本木ヒルズを出発し、新橋を通って皇居をほぼ一周。永田町を通ってヒルズに戻るというコース。約４時間後に戻った時には足が棒のようでしたが、途中、皇居に戻られる美智子様に手を振ったり、一緒に歩いた友達といろいろ話せて楽しいウォーキングでした。そして３時半頃ようやくお昼ご飯にありつき、その美味しかった事！！おいしいご飯の為に歩いたという気すらする。ホノルルでは何を食べようか？などと話しながら中華を楽しみました。（そしてあの杏仁豆腐．．．傑作ですね。絶対また食べに行く！）
一応、今回のウォーキングは１２月のホノルルの前哨戦という位置づけなのですが、実はホノルルは１０kmなので今回の方が距離が長い（笑）また景色も気候を違うのでとっても楽しみです。そしてタオルやらシンボルマークのビンパッジ、スニーカーの靴ひもやらいろいろもらったのですが、戦利品の１つはこのマグカップでした。疲れた私たちは「荷物になるぢゃん」などと文句を言っていたのですが、デザインがかわいかったのでもらう事にしました（笑）そして口も広くなかなかカワイイ。
忙しい日々が続いた最後にこのウォーキングがあり、どうなる事かと思ったけど、参加してよかった。楽しかったです。ホノルルも楽しみだ！
I paticipated in a walking event with a friend. We walked 15 km (9.3 miles) around cetral Tokyo. It had been raining but it cleared up and was such a nice day for walking. In fact, it was quite hot (it's October!!) so my arms got tanned a bit. It took us about four hours. We were quite exausted at the end and coudn't think about anything but what to eat for lunch, but we enjoyed a lot. We happened to be walking in front of one of the gates of the emperor's palace when the empress came back by car. (We actually run into the emperor and the emperess five years ago when we took my Swiss friend there, so it was our second time to have the honour of seeing her! What are the chances??) We also could catch up during the walk so that was a good walk. We should be ready for Honolulu now ;-)
We finally had lunch around 15:30, which was amazing. We almost felt that we walked for this treat. We already started to think about what to eat after the walk in Honolulu, haha !
They distributed towels and shoe strings for free for participating this event, and one of them is this mug. We were not goig to take this first because we didn't want anything heavy to take home but we found out that it looked quite pretty and practical so we decided to take it :P
Personally, I had been having busy week with very little sleep, so it was so hard to get up early today but I'm glad I participated. I'm certainly looking forward to the Honolulu walk!
