【写真は私の庭の梅で、右下は倉賀野緑地公園です。画像をクリックし、拡大しすると臨場感が出ます。】
２月最後の昨日、余りにも春らしい良い気候でだったので「よし、今日は歩こう」という気持ちが高まり、午前１１時頃から暫くぶりに倉賀野緑地公園までウォーキングしました。右下の写真の通り、ここは烏川の畔にある広大な広場です。目的地への途中、横町の知人宅に立ち寄り、５分ほど立ち話をしました。息子さんがこの４月から小学校に入学とのことで、是非「PTA役員をした方が良いですよ」と薦めました。
「役員になると多くの異業種の方々と互いに知り合いになれると共に、親が役員をしてることで子供も張り切るものです。」と その利点を話しました。彼女は以前に私のブログをご覧になったことで、わざわざ私の家を訪ねて来て下さったことがあり、それ以来の知人です。
ところで、目的地の緑地公園の南を流れる一級河川・烏川の源流は倉渕町の角落山(標高1393ｍ)付近の「烏の口」と言われる岩から滴り落ちる水に始まり、高崎市を通り、玉村町で流域面積日本一の利根川と合流します。私が子供の頃はプールがなかったことから、倉賀野でも夏休みは多くの子供たちがこの烏川で泳いだものです。恥ずかしながら、小学生だった私は一度だけ深みに嵌ってしまい、水中を１０ｍほど流された記憶があります。叱られると思い、親には話せませんでした。
健康維持に、バランスのとれた食事と適度な運動は必須です。特に運動はストレス解消のためもあるので、毎日数K歩くなど無理な課題を自らに押し付けず、「今日は身体を動かしたい」と感じたときで良いと考えます。車社会にあっても、日頃から歩いて行ける距離は歩いて行く習慣こそ大切に思います。
実は、今日から倉賀野上４公園で朝６時３０分からの「ラジオ体操会」が再開され、３ヶ月ぶりに３０名ほどの仲間と会えます。この体操会は金曜日が休みだけで、これから１１月下旬まで行われます。上４公園は私の家から５００mほどの所にあり、結果的にウォーキング～ラジオ体操～ウォーキングと朝食前に３０分ほど身体を動かすので空腹となり、朝食が美味しい利点があります。このお腹が空くことが体内の循環にとても良いです。
Dear my overseas friends who are crazy about gymnastics and great music.
The simultaneous interpretation in English for your understanding will be done after my breakfast Japan time.
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Yesterday was the last day of February, and the weather was so spring-like that I felt like walking, so I walked to Kuragano Greenery Park after a long interval around 11am. As you can see in the photo, this is a vast open space near the bank of Karas River. On the way to my destination, I stopped by an acquaintance in Yoko-town and chatted for about five minutes. Her son will enter Kuragano elementary school this April, so I recommended that she become a PTA officer.
I explained the benefits of being an officer, saying, "You can get to know many people from different occupations, and your child will be more enthusiastic if you are an officer of PTA." In fact, she had previously read my weblog then she had visited my residence, so we have been acquaintances ever since.
Not change the subject but, the source of the first-class river, Karas River, which flows south of my destination, Greenery Park, begins with water trickling from a rock called "Beak of Crow" near Mt. Tsunoochi (1,393m above sea level) in Kurabuchi-Town, passes through Takasaki City, and joins the Tone River which has the largest river basin in Japan, in Tamamura Town. When I was a child, there was no swimming pool, so many children in Kuragano- town swam in the Karas River during summer vacation. I'm ashamed to say that I was almost drowned once in this river as an elementary school student and was underwater for about 10 meters. I didn't tell my parents because I was afraid I would get scolded.
A balanced diet and moderate exercise are indispensable to maintaining good health. Exercise is especially important for relieving stress, so instead of forcing ourselves to do difficult tasks such as walking several kilometers every day, I think it's fine to do it when we feel like "I want to move my body today". Even in a car-oriented society, I think it's important to have the habit of walking as far as we can on a daily basis.
In fact, starting today, the "radio gymnastics meeting" has resumed at 6:30am at Kuragano Kami-4th Park, allowing me to meet with about 30 friends after three months. The only day off for this gymnastics is Friday, and it will continue until the end of November. Kami-4th Park is about 500m from my house, therefore, as a result, I get around 30 minutes of exercise before breakfast, walking, then radio gymnastics, then walking again. It has the advantage of making me hungry and making my breakfast taste better. I think that being hungry is great for circulation in the body.
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