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I Walked So I Wouldn't Break the Streak

継続の糸が切れないように歩いた朝
September 6, 2026
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Back from Thailand, this morning I went on my usual morning walk for the first time in a while. When I walk at a hotel gym on a trip, I watch the distance on the treadmill, five hundred metres, one kilometre. As I walk, I imagine where I would be in my usual park by now. This morning it was the other way round. I remembered my gym walks and thought, when the treadmill showed five hundred metres to go, it must have been about here. To tell the truth, I wanted to skip this morning's walk. But I know that once the thread of continuity breaks, it is hard to mend, so I told myself to walk no matter what, and I went. My ordinary days begin again.

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No. 243Tokyo · morning
日本語 — Japanese
ひらがな — Hiragana
たいからもどってきて、けさはひさしぶりにいつものあさのうぉーきんぐにいってきました。わたしは、しゅっちょうやりょこうでほてるのじむでうぉーきんぐをするときに、あるきはじめからごひゃくめーとる、いちきろめーとるととれっどみるにひょうじされるきょりをみながら、いつものこうえんならあのあたりをあるいてるなあと、そうぞうしながらあるいています。けさはそのぎゃくで、とれっどみるにあとごひゃくめーとるとひょうじされたのは、このあたりのことだなあと、じむでのうぉーきんぐをおもいだしながらあるいていました。
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久しぶりひさしぶりfor the first time in a long while
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