By The People art Festival - "The Demon Hunter"

I went in D.C. To check out the By The People art Festival (performances, original art installations, conversations, an augmented reality art hunt etc.), walked by Giant National BBQ Battle (cooking demos, free tastings and a lot of people), and watched a 90-min thriller play/workshop (fully-staged) at Spooky Action Theater: "The Demon Hunter" involving a struggling mother of a possessed child, a demon disguised as a therapist, and a homeless angel. The darkest yet intriguing play. BTW, I walked around about 5 miles. 

10 m run in Reston

I took advantage of a rain break this morning and ran 10 miles (16km) at 11:27 per mile pace in my neighborhood. Getting old and slow comparing with 10:26 per mile at 2014 Marine Corp full Marathon.

Taste of Reston

I used to bike 20 miles (32 km) round trip to check out events in Reston, but now only 3 miles (5 km) run round trip. There were a lot of restaurants participating Taste of Reston with 30-40 people long lines, but I did not taste anything since I still felt full from dragon boat lunchbox and bobble tea. I did stop to listen to live music and play with dogs.

DC Dragon Boat Festival 2018

Live from Dragon Boat Festival at Georgetown waterfront. My 8th year paddle for TECRO flagship. There were cultural exhibitions and craft demonstrations. I woke up 6 am to meet the group @ 7:30 am. I checked upon the Tsinghua Alumni Team a few times but they had enough female paddlers this year, so I did not paddle for them. A hot and fun day, although my team TECRO flagship lost all three races today.

Intrigging play: Swimming With Whales

I ushered at 1st Stage Tysons tonight for Swimming With Whales, an interesting story (I haven't figured out some parts) and creative stage design. As well put in a review article: "This is a gentle, and ultimately hopeful, play considering that death permeates it. The pacing seems to take its lead from the timelessness of sea and sand—it ebbs and flows and pushes and pulls and sparks up and subsides." I like this play.

food and mental health seminar

I was in Georgetown waterfront for a financial Meetup at Tony & Joe, then walked 1.5 miles across DC to Thomas Circle for an interesting seminar about the complex correlation between food and mental health, especially neurofeedback treatment and decoupling memory vs. response neru-links. I saw a group of people practicing yoga over a piece of grass land surrounded by traffic, and wondered how they handled the noise and maintained the peace and balance.

biked 21 m on W&OD trail

After replacing the rear tire tube with a friend's help and an adjustment by a bike mechanic, I rode my tour bike for 21 miles (34 km) in this overcast Sunday afternoon. As I did not ride since 2016, I did not engage my biking shoe cleats with the paddles to avoid falling. There were very few people on the W&OD trail due to thunderstorm forecast, and I only got rain at the last 5 miles. I saw five Virginia state birds: cardinals, three rabbits and one beaver looking creature (I did not see the feet so not sure, and the animal photos were found online).