Korean woman selling fish

Support staff at Dong-A-Marathon Center

Me inside Buddhist Temple

Only 1 day left in CheJu. Today was a quiet day which began at 6am with a nice jog around the center. It was hot- and sticky and wet, once again. I just don’t do so well in humidity which is why I live in Colorado and not the Midwest. A pretty low key day as the athletes are winding up main training and now just fine tuning what they can. The usually run to E-Mart for some coffee, and then back again for ice for the ice bath and it was already the afternoon. Before I knew it, it was staff outing time. Scott served as a great tour guide and got us to a few places. This island is a volcano so there are these crazy cliffs and rock formations made from the volcano flow. It’s pretty cool because you look out to the water and there are these stone islands sticking out of the water. They say that the gods got angry and chopped the top of the volcano off and threw it into the water to form one of these structures. I still have yet to get a picture of the island as it really never seems to be clear up there. It reaches a height of 1950m (but maybe not because that doesn’t seem possible, over 5,000ft- I will need to confirm). I hope to get to the top tomorrow night for a sunset. I will let my pictures tell my story as I’m prtty tired tonight- ready to drop quicker than usual. Enjoy…