Shocking my request of annual leave for travel in Europa was rejected by boss. I had already registered 2 races, half marathon in Germany and 112km trail race in Hungary respectively. For trail race in Hungary, I found that a refund would …

-Buenos Aires- The city I have been living for 6 months when I was university student. I ran around the city sometimes at that time. It was not for the race, just for keeping shape. The place where I lived was quite quiet area. I thing ide…

-Barcelona- The city I lived twice and visited also twice. I lived for one mouth and half total. Security is not good as Tokyo and Singapore. I will be afraid of running midnight alone. I think running culture is rooted there. So, maybe it…

-Singapore- The city currently I live and have been living for 4 years and 9 months so far. There are plenty of parks and runnable places. In addition, security is very good. I think safer than Tokyo. Everyone can midnight alone without fe…

I have read annual livable city ranking by Monocle magazine before. Top cities were Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Tokyo, etc. Singapore was around 15th. Import element for choosing where you live would be different. For example, number of go…

I met one couple of Argentine and Costa Rican When I came back to the hostel. They were traveling all over the world. We talked about many things like Football, World cup, Argentina, Traveling, Singapore, Japan etc.. they were very good pe…

We didn’t have much time when we came back to the hostel. So, I just ate 2 Paos. Tour guide for Cu Chi tunnel came to our hostel and picked us up. We followed him and went to other hotels to pick up other participants. According to tour gu…

I got up early around 5A.M. and ate breakfast for 30km tempo run. Fortunately, there is a park near the hostel. I jogged to there and started running. The park was smaller than I thought. 1loop was just around 500m. So I had to do 60 loops…

As scheduled, I traveled in Ho Chi Minh City. There is CNY in HCMC. So, there were less motorbikes because many people went back to their hometown. For me, It was first visit in Vietnam in recent 10 years. The last time I visit there was i…

I thought I would be very busy today because tomorrow is CNY holiday. Because, I thought I would have to do portion of tomorrow’s tasks today. That’s why I got up earlier and went to office in this morning to clear tasks as soon as possibl…

I read the article about Keiko Komuro yesterday. It’s really shocking and tragedy. She is still 45 years but she is suffering critical difficulty of the brain. She got subarachnoid hemorrhage few years ago. She got surgery and survived. Ho…

Bidan Karoki won RAK half marathon with course record under 60min. I watched some parts of race on You Tube. He looked not so skinny. Also his running form looked not so smooth. When I watched him on New year Ekiden, I thought he was amazi…

I did hill training in the morning on last Saturday at Bukit Timah. It was fruitful training. I ran from the bottom to top 10 times. There is very steep section at the beginning. After this point, the route is divided to 2. One is steps ar…

No. Year Month Country City Gross Net Age Age Rank 1 2005 MAR Japan Arakawa 03:23:44 03:21:19 19 2 2010 JAN Japan Katsuta 02:54:53 02:54:03 24 3 2010 MAR Japan Sakura 02:49:09 02:49:07 24 62 4 2010 APR Japan Kasumigaura 02:47:28 02:47:23 2…

Next my target race is Northbern 100 miler. I will run 100km trail. I cramped just after running 20km in Hong Kong last year. So, I want to avoid cramping at the beginning of race in this time. I ran 100km trail race in Japan in 2009. I ga…

I came back from U.A.E last week. I was busy but become normal today. Sadly result of the marathon was not what I desired . However, I enjoyed the race and entire travel. It was my first travel in middle east. I visited Dubai, Abu Dhabi, A…

-Mileage: 365.7km( in pool:2.6km) -Average: 11.79/day -Weight: Av.54.75kg -HR:Av.49.56/min -Weight and Core training x3 -Cross trainer: 60minx3 -Time trialx1: ECP park run:16:27 -Interval x9 -7.5min x4(r:1.5min) + 5min #1: 152/157/78/ (63)…

26JAN2018 7:00 start N:02:33:14 G:02:33:18 (42.28km 3:36/km byTomTom) Position: 22 プランＡ：Sub 2:33 プランＢ：New PB プランＣ：SuB 2:35 準備 福岡国際（12月3日）終わった後にやや体調を崩し、本格的な練習再開は12月18日～24日の週。 ↓のとおり…