At a K2Fit event (a local workout group I go to) I met a couple people who are members of the Nike run club. My friend Nicole and I were invited to it.
While we were at the K2Fit event, e had a little fun with the skeleton decoration:
Back to the Nike run. We ran 3.5 miles through a pedestrian area. What is fun here is that it is where lots of people go to spend time and is over a labyrinth of malls, restaurants, and parking areas. We ran through one section of a mall that goes underneath a 10 lane highway. I vowed to go back and look around some more. It started at the Nike store. Afterwards they provided bananas and water. It was fun. Only our friend spoke English. But it is not required to understand in order to run.
It was a fun run. There were 3 groups of runners from fast to slow and we had a pacer with a light to follow. In the picture above is my friend Nicole and Ryan, a Chinese national who speaks decent English.
That weekend I walked back from a spoets store I normally go to. I wanted to see if I could make it back now that I am learning about how the labyrinth of underground malls and walkways go.
I decided to go back and look more in the new area from the run. I popped into a few other malls too. Fit anyone who knows me, I HATE SHOPPING! But I wanted to figure out directing knowing that in these spaces you can also get the metro if you need to.
This is a list of some of the sites in one small section of one mall.
There are stairs to go up and over and also under really busy roads.
There are great green spaces in this area. Water, bridges, spaces for people to be… Amazing…
The one mall below the arena is the most fun. As you walk down, there is a big screen playing Tom and Jerry.
There was a train, corridors that looked like streets, games for kids to play, video games set up here and there, food vendors, and lots of fun.
From this vendor I big sparkling white peach jasmine tea.
The corridor looks like streets and the shops like buildings.
It was easy to get lost. I did. I have learned to pop up out the next exit and see where you are. Not many chi under the street but I’m figuring it out. Outside the arena there is a big place to gather where prime roller blade, fly kites, etc.
They definitely love their malls here and I can see where you can get just about everything. I also like the ability to move quickly underneath busy roads or by pass the metro.
