Taeko joined our team for the first time and will be running with us for the 9 am to 3 pm shift and then return to her blue team. I took advantage of the opportunity to run with her and joined her for her leg of 10 miles and then ran my 10 miles. She jumped on the bike and cooled down riding beside me for a little while. The horseflys here are like Siberian tigers. Perhaps they are related. They are so huge you swear you can see their stripes! Even the 30 degree celcius heat wasn't a deterrent for the swarms. It was such a new experience that I was a little concerned at how many there were at the end of our 10 miles running together and told Taeko that I was going to run ahead just before the finish to open the van door for her. I took off and tried shouting to the pilot car people who were waiting at the exchange point that we were being chased by a swarm of hornets. My humility hit the sky when I arrived at the van to see that the van windows were open and that they were simply everywhere. At that point I also realized that they were just horseflys. Nothing could be done as I turned around and helped Taeko swipe them away with a towel. Blue Planet Run fun!

Poem of the day:

Across the vastness of my perceptions
I came by the split of my thoughts
Seeing that my judgment arrived before the decision
To take life too seriously and lose the lightness
Feeling the inclination to be tired and become distracted
Holding my breath while breathing and not being able to run while running
Then in an instant some part of me decided it wasn't separate
The sky looked down, I looked up and the world decided
I was a part of it.
I became light, focused, relaxed and connected.