[📝] Today Was #178: Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail Day 1: Yongduam - Songaksan

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The first day on the Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail, a day when I opened the road with my body from Yongduam to Songaksan.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223984781979
• Naver published at: 2025/08/27 07:23 KST
• Original category: Today’s proof

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.8.26 Tue

Goals: 0/0

To-dos: 1/1

Habits: 4/4

Bets: 1

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goals

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach more than 1 million monthly active users (MAU)

Goals for 2025

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG plan

• 🎯 Think through platform-related business and revenue models

• 🎯 Consider a B2B pivot

• 🎯 Market research: planning document, included apps, business and revenue models, … (+ AI)

• 🎯 Validate core hypotheses: collect materials on the effectiveness of gamification

• 🎯 Survey

• 🎯 Organize hypothesis-related materials in Notion Workspace

• 🎯 Temporary roadmap (not final): develop at least five built-in apps (modules) for the Life RPG platform

• ✅ 2025.08

  iD Note

• A gamification app that stores academy/PT lesson records and lets users gain experience and level up through attendance checks, homework, and more

• 🎯 2025.09

  Oharu (Today Was)

• A daily-life gamification app with an internal social feature for setting today’s goals and sharing completion status with friends

• 🎯 2025.10

  Pianolic

• A music gamification app for managing piano practice records and collecting practiced pieces and albums

• 🎯 2025.11

  Running Party

• A running gamification app that tracks running records and offers running matching with nearby users

• 🎯 2025.12

  Auto Vibe

• An education gamification app that gathers tips and lessons on automation tools and vibe coding and suggests learning guidelines for each user’s goal

• 🎯 2026.01

  Open the Life Store

• Officially open the Life Store, the platform’s core. Users can buy app access rights in the store, and developers can register new apps.

• 🎯 2026.02

  Apply for the Preliminary Startup Package

• Apply for the government-supported Preliminary Startup Package to validate business potential and secure support for platform growth and stable operation.

• [Reading]

• ✅ Models - Mark Manson

• 🎯 Fail Fast, Fail Often - John Krumboltz · Ryan Babineaux

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 14.5 kg (89.5 kg -> 75 kg)

August Goals

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• Oharu (Today Was)

• 🎯 Write PRD

• [Reading]

• ✅ Models - Mark Manson

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 4.5 kg (89.5 kg -> 85.0 kg)

Goals for the Third Week of August

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• Oharu (Today Was)

• 🎯 Write PRD (a daily-life gamification app with an internal social feature for setting today’s goals and sharing completion status with friends)

• [Reading]

• ✅ Models - Mark Manson: 337/337

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 2.5 kg (89.5 kg -> 87.0 kg)

Today’s Goals (⚠️ Required)

• None

🔂-📌 To-do Management Routine System

Today’s To-dos (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Complete 1/4 of the Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

• ✅ Strength: At least one strength I discovered in myself today

• I push myself to the limit with cliff-edge tactics and achieve it with indomitable will.

• ✅ Gratitude: At least one thing I was grateful for today

• Grateful that I could ride safely and healthily to the destination without trouble.

• Grateful for the feeling of, ‘May I really enjoy something like this…?’

• ✅ Exercise: at least 10 minutes of cardio/strength training

• Detailed record in the brief reflection

• ✅ Routine: Check today’s goals / to-dos / habits

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bets (⚠️ Required)

• Yo-yo recovery and 50,000 won recovery challenge (🏆 Reward: +50,000 won)

• By 9.1: 89.5 kg -> 85.0 kg

• 8.18: 89.5kg

• 8.19: 88.6kg

• 8.20: 87.3kg

• 8.21: 87.5kg

• 8.22: 87.9kg

• 8.23: 88.0kg

• 8.24: 87.3kg

• 8.25: 86.9kg

• 8.26 - 8.30: unable to measure because of the Jeju trip

🤔 Brief Reflection

Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail Conquest Challenge / Travel Record

✅ 8.25 Mon: Arrive in Jeju and stay at a guesthouse

✅ 8.26 Tue: Complete 1/4 of the Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail (Yongduam, Darak Shelter, Haegeoreum Village Park, Songaksan)

🎯 8.27 Wed: Complete 2/4 of the Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail

🎯 8.28 Thu: Complete 3/4 of the Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail

🎯 8.29 Fri: Complete 4/4 of the Jeju Fantasy Bicycle Trail

🎯 8.30 Sat: Stop by Gunsan to see family, then return to Seoul

< Accommodation (Haena Guesthouse) - Yongduam >

People were snoring on both sides last night, but it was okay.

I was tired from flying in anyway, so I probably slept while snoring too lol.

The atmosphere is really cozy and nice.

The owner’s vibe-filled BGM selection was good too.

I was so right to wait for breakfast…

It was such a delicious meal.

Especially the crispness of that bread straight out of the oven was almost unfair.

Finished renting a preeemium bike from J Bicycle for four days (2*40,000 won)

Arrived at the Yongduam certification center at 10:15.

Race start!

< Yongduam - Darak Shelter >

(about 21 km)

But less than an hour after starting, I began to regret it intensely.

Jeju’s blazing sun under a constant heat-wave warning was another level.

Bought a lot of ion drinks for hydration.

Found this not long after filling my stomach with ion drinks.

The famous Yeondon bolkatsu I had only heard about!

The famous ttuyulchi I had only heard about!

A water stomach and a food stomach are different things.

I inhaled it.

Ridiculously delicious.

Kill… me…;

My knees feel like they are going to burst.

You can assume I drank more than four Toreta Zero bottles on average per course.

That is how insanely the sweat poured down.

One-line course note: There are… quite a few uphill roads?

< Darak Shelter - Haegeoreum Village Park >

(about 21 km)

Emerald!

My knees already feel like they are going to burst… lol.

I think I started this for no reason.

Hallelujah in the middle of all that.

Exchanged photo favors with a rider who happened to be standing and resting.

The occasional signs gave me strength.

Because the goal and indicators were clear, I could keep going no matter how hard it was.

Next year I will lose weight and come with a girlfriend.

Certification center, why are you here…?

This is the middle of the road.

One-line course note: In the middle there was an urban section where I had to ride entirely on roads/sidewalks, so it was very dangerous.

< Haegeoreum Village Park - Songaksan >

(about 35 km)

Here, it was almost only uphill roads from start to finish, so I thought I was going to die.

There was not much to take pictures of either…

It was just endless uphill, and just a road with cars constantly speeding by.

Just endless uphill.

Uphill.

Uphill.

Uphill.

Ugh…

Are you going to give up? Or not? Will you? Won’t you?

Will-you-won’t-you-will-you-won’t-you-will-you-won’t-you

I cannot give up… damn…

I already booked lodging near the Songaksan certification centerㅠㅠ

Cliff-edge tactics succeeded.

Later, when I talked about it, one rider said they simply walked through this whole uphill section.

Maybe I was the only one stubbornly grinding up in low gear for no good reason lol.

But then again, I cannot resist the challenge spirit.

As soon as the endless uphill hell section ended and I entered town, I rushed into the first Lotteria I saw.

After eating, I felt like I could live… I really almost died.

Around the time I was almost there (7 km left…), it finally showed me one grand view.

Still, at least the uphill ended… I climbed almost 20 km of nothing but uphill… insane.

Seriously, just to take this one photo…ㅠㅠ

One-line course note: Exactly how high are we going?

< Songaksan - Accommodation (Sanbangsan Carbonate Hot Spring Pension) >

(about 7.4 km)

It was a long… day.