Here are some pictures from last weekend’s half-marathon
What better way to finish a long slow run than eating a healthy lunch?
Just after 5 am on Friday morning
A few snapshots of last week’s pizzas
Slightly different…you have to look carefully to see the difference
After a long hiatus from running, I decided to the 10k race at the 28th Nihondaira Sakura Marathon.
Of course, the name of marathon includes “sakura” which is cherry blossom in English, so here is an essential photo:
I convinced a friend to join me and we trained for about 12 weeks for the race. Here are some pictures before the race:
Notice the luxurious beard. I started growing it when we started training (Note: it was shaved off after the race)
Coming around the corner just before entering the stadium:
Finally, posing with our certificates of completion…
Now for the technical details from my NikePlus application in my iPhone…
November 24, 2011 – 6:56 pm
A beautiful morning at the beach.
Not great. Waves were better than when I took this picture…I suppose that is why I stopped surfing to take this snapshot.
November 12, 2011 – 6:26 am
I just got a new iPhone 4s. I am hoping that the convenience of mobile blogging will help me write more. Here’s a few pictures I took with my new phone.
Well, I haven’t been to the beach yet this winter… Hopefully, next week I’ll be able to get in a session or two.
Here’s a screen shot of my interview on Fuji TV a few weeks ago. I think they talked to me for about 10 minutes to make a 4-second clip. Haha
For those of you that don’t read Japanese, I was commenting about how difficult it looks to fold the book covers that the bookstores give customers.
Haven’t been in the water for a couple of weeks. The wave forecast wasn’t very optimistic, but I really wanted to get in a session.
I planned to meet at 6:30 at Yoshida but when I arrived, there was only 1 person there and he wasn’t getting ready to surf… Oh.
After taking a peek, I understood why. We then checked out Shizunami – it was a little better with about 20 or do surfers along the length of the beach.
Where was everyone? Katahama? Omaezaki?
Since it was a beautiful day, we decided to drive the extra 30 minutes of so to check omaezaki and here’s what we saw:
