湘南を走る - Run for Full View of Mt. Fuji

目が覚めたら疲労で動く気がしないくらいだるい。
昨日は奥多摩から峠越えを予定していたのだが、本格的な冬の到来で雪も降った後だし凍結も怖いので、友人と湘南国際村、三崎港、三浦海岸を巡る海岸線ルート68kmを走ることに変更。アップ・ダウンを何度か繰り返したのがきつかったみたいだ。でもこちらは暖かさも違うし、特に三崎口から剣崎に向かう215号線は眺めも楽しめる快適な走行ルートで気に入った。
で、身体は重いのだが、今日はリア・ディレーラーRD-7900の調整をもう少し追い込みたいし、昨日見えた白い富士山をもっと全面展開で満喫したいと考えて、東名平塚あたりまで行けば展望が開けているし、片道25kmくらいなら消耗することもないだろうと、意を決して11時頃に自宅を飛び出した。

走ったルートはなかなか走りやすくて、鎌倉の長谷から藤沢まで32号、駅の北口に回ってからは辻堂まで線路伝いの一本道。右にカーブして北上、新湘南バイパスの下を寒川（茅ヶ崎中央）まで行く。ここまで来ると富士山は目の前にかなり大きく見えるので、あとはそれに向かって西に走っていく感じだ。僕は岡崎大橋からの眺めで満足したので、その先のセブン・イレブンで小休止。帰り道は134号線まで下って、海岸線を激走した。



I woke up in the morning and felt as if my entire body was filled with huge fatigue. I ran yesterday 68km along the Shonan coastline including Shonan Village, Misaki harbor and Miura beach with a friend of mine. Originally our plan was a hill climb in the northern pass of Tokyo, but the weather went into the complete winter last few days, with some snow and possibly frozen roads, so we decided to avoid risking ourselves. Minura Peninsula was warm and the Route 215 from Misaki to Tsurugizaki was so comfortable to run and offered plenty of nice views.
We also enjoyed clear and white Mt. Fuji yesterday, and I thought of even wider view of it to capture along with a finer tuning of RD-7900 derailleur, so I tried to compress my dullness and ran out of home around 11 a.m. heading for somewhere near Hiratsuka of Tomei expressway. It shouldn’t be exhausting since the distance is 25km or so.
The route I took was good for bikes mostly, although bike riding is not generally safe in Japan: I took Route 32 from Hase, Kamakura to Fujisawa, then went to the north exit of the station. From there to Tsujido was a straight line of road in parallel with the railway. I then took north up to Shin-Shonan Bypass. There was an underway beneath the Bypass. At Chigasaki Chuo, the Bypass splits and by that time Mt. Fuji can be seen in front and larger. I simply kept heading west watching the mountain and ended up with Okazaki Ohashi bridge. As I was already content with the view there, I took a short break at Seven Eleven store a few hundred meters ahead. The rest, I went down south to the coast and accelerated my pedals on Route 134 back home.