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…

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…

I talked to my friends about Mile of Airlines recently. One of them was very familiar with it. He has Mile card with credit card function and it is connected to Suica. He has many business trip by train. Company compensates necessary money…

I had 2 big sad news about football last week. First, one of my favorite football players, Mascherano will move to China soon. He still plays very well in Barcelona but now he is not regular member. So, He decided to move to China for havi…

As previous post, I was thinking what will be effective way to use travel voucher. Finally, I found good one, Da Nang international marathon dated on 12 AUG. Cost is under amount of voucher, duration is only 3days, available for single. Th…

I checked itinerary of travel in U.A.E. I will miss travel in Oman due to my mistake of hotel booking. It will not take long time from Dubai to Muscat by bus but it will not enough time to enjoy traveling there. I regret so much. So below …

I realized that periodical dental check is really required after I had inplant operation. It was very expensive and took long time. I thought it was due to Singapore but actually it would be expensive everywhere. After this operation, I re…

There are 2 start times of Dubai Marathon. 1 is 6AM for elite runners and wheelchairs. The other is 7AM for masses. There are 2 big merits to for start at 6AM. It will be cooler because of sunrise time According to weather forecast, lowest…

I got a travel voucher as I belonged to champion team of relay race. I was very happy because I love travelling. But I face the problem. This voucher is valid for group travel mostly. I usually travel alone. So, finding someone to travel t…

2 big ekidens were finished. I have already missing them. I finished watching new year ekiden dated on 01 Jan 2018 on youtube today. There was no surprise. Top 3 were dominated by favorites, Asahi Kasei, Honda and Toyota. respectively. I w…

I found the tweet that Hikari Mitsushima and Kenji Ozawa collaborate to sing Lovely. I did not know this song but I was interested in this special collaboration. Fortunately, someone has already uploaded a music video of it on Youtube. I w…

I watched soccer lab on You tube. It was discussion of Toda, Hashimoto and Nonomura. They were discussing world cup in Russia. I knew Toda studies soccer a lot and he aims to be manager in the future. Now, he works as commentator on soccer…

Finally, I gave up using Garmin. It cannot be charged any more. Then, I restarted using TomTom. Still it does not have defective points. But, I am not satisfied with it because of below mentioned reasons. No lap by hand: it has stop watch …

I was really bad yesterday. I was supposed to collect prize from Asics and take part in training at Kallang track. However, it was postponed to today suddenly. So, I had to reschedule and change plan. I bought drug for cough and sore throa…

I started studying for TOEIC SW and restarted taking Rarejob lessons. It has been long time since last Rarejob lesson. Last time I took it was in this year January. I checked bookmark. Some tutors are still working and some of them seem no…

Finally I reached 3 days before the Fukuoka. It has been almost 7 months since Prague in May. I was satisfied almost all of training and race during this period. I think I did what I wanted to do for Fukuoka. Last night session was last sp…

Urawa won ACL last week. It’s their 2nd time after 2007. 10 years ago, they won with Hasebe, Tanaka, Washington, Turio, Abe, Ponte, Nene, Santos, Tsuboi, Suzui etc. Writing members at that moment, they seems very strong. It was not just lu…

I registered meta sprint duathlon team relay category. This rate consists of 2 members. one is runner the other one is cyclist. Runners run 3km firstly. After that, pass baton to cyclists and they cycle 18km. Finally cyclists pass baton to…

Travel in Fukuoka is around the corner. Only 11 days to go. I’m getting excited and nervous. Main purpose of this travel is Fukuoka international marathon. I will spend all of energy to it but I want to enjoy whole travel. Transit time in …

Finally international week finished. Many dramas happened this time. Especially, Italy’s fault is very big news. They lost against Sweden and missed the thicket for Russia world cup. I started watching world cup from 1994 America and Italy…

One of track & field club of Tokyo university member, Kondo is applied to member of Kanto selection for Hakone. His time of qualified race is best among members. However, he has to make good timing on 10000m race in end of this month. I th…

I wanted to watch NYC marathon 2017 on internet broadcast. My running friend posted link for watching and tracking our friends on our chat. This race started at 9:50PM here Singapore because of time difference. I was extremely tired and sl…

This year’s YBC Levain cup final will be very interesting . all tickets were sold out. Saitama stadium 2002 will be packed with fanatics supporters of both finalists. This year’s finalists are Kawasaki and C Osaka. Both teams had chances t…

I finished watching Izumo ekiden 2018 on youtube last night. Tokai seems very strong and can be rival of Aogaku in Zennihon and Hakone. Golden 2nd grade runners are now on fire, especially Seki and Onizuka. About running form, Onizuka of T…

I will start writing something in English when I have a time. Purpose is to practice writing for TOEIC SW. I will take it in March 2018. I have already asked my mother to buy texts and send them to me by air once ready. So, still I have no…