Cycling Namsan & Haengjusanseong in Seoul
I'm not sure if it's okay to go cycling while we're practicing social distancing due to COVID-19. But since it's outdoors and I felt like I was getting depressed from all the pent-up stress, I decided to head to Namsan (a mountain in central Seoul).
We rode to the National Theater and chatted face-to-face for the first time in a while instead of online, waiting for everyone to gather before riding up Namsan. Two of us sprinted up as if they'd been training just for today, while the other two took a break halfway up. Still, the weather was so nice that everyone was in a great mood for the ride.
I took a few photos, but I'm just leaving text in case anyone doesn't want their face shown. If either my FLY12CE or FLY6CE (bike cameras) were still alive, I would have roughly edited and uploaded the footage... but both are dead. (Seems like a flawed product. Compared to Samsung or LG, seriously, ugh...)
I was going to grab a coffee and wrap things up before heading home. But the weather was just too perfect today, and since I'd been stuck at home for so long, I wanted to go to one more place. So I bought everyone some bread, and once they ate it, I dragged them by the collar to Haengjusanseong (a historic fortress), telling them we needed to ride off the calories. I guess I wasn't the only one feeling cooped up, because there were so many people out on the Han River. I can deal with the crowds, but I really wish people wouldn't ride their bikes while wearing earphones.
The headwind and the crowds made the ride there incredibly tough, and there were too many cars, so we couldn't actually go up to Haengjusanseong and just came back after eating some noodles. Since we had a headwind on the way there, we had a tailwind on the way back! There were still a lot of people on the path, but since my legs were totally spent from riding for the first time in a while, it felt great to just pedal along leisurely. Hehe.
I made up my mind to write about all sorts of things on my blog, and I planned to start writing about my bike rides this year, so this is the first result. Now that I've written it, it's just as boring as my travel posts, and there aren't even any pictures. By the way, should a cycling blog post go under the hobby category or sports?