about Saitama Running Club

starting on Dec 1 2010
Saitama Running Club is going to restart without coaches.

Practices
Tuesdays
1,3,5 at Asaka Track& Field
2, 4 at Jingugaien or Outside of Asaka Track

Thursdays
Besshonuma Park

Saturdays
1,3,5 at various locations (minuma, yoyogi-park, oomiya-park, takao-trail etc)
2, 4 Saiko park in toda

Monthly fee.. 0
Initiation fee 2000yen

to our foreign members

as you probably already know, our blog has been moved to here
it's a japanese site but i'll throw english in there. of course you can leave comments there too.
and when you view the blog, please click the icon that says "マラソン”　at the end so that
it helps our ranking in blogmura to go up. Thank you!!!

Arakawa Marathon canceled!

i was supposed to go cheer up SRC memebers for the marathon race.
when i was about to leave, one of top gear coaches called me and told me about the cancelation.
i've never heard any races get canceled so i was really surprised.
i feel really bad for those people who have trained really hard for the race.
oh well, what can we do...
hope they can forget about it and move on.

Michael's last practice at Bessyonuma Park

I can't remember the last time the weather was decent... it's been really cold and rainy.
The last two practices, only a few men came to run. Today we had 13 people showed up including two 2 comers,
one from Hiroshima. She's on a business trip.

Anyway, today was the last day of practice for Michael. He's going back to Australia!
He's lost 4kg since he joined! so SRC's diet program has been working well for him! but not for me...
I want to lose 5kg... I've been eating too much. lol

anyway, one announcement.
this saturday, an acupuncturist from Uchida chiryoin is going to come to our training session.
He should be able to assist or help anyone who's injured.
so feel free to come join this saturday!!

today's practice at Minuma

We did 100mins easy today. 5 guys came to run today. what happened to all the females???
about 40% of our club members should be female..
anyway, here is the map we ran today. Mr Arai game me the link. so thank you Arai-san!

we also did some hill repeats at the end.
it is so difficult to find hills in saitama. it's all flat and that was the only place we have hills during minuma runs.

Congratulations to Ogata-san and Ono san. They both broke their PR for a half marathon race. Nice job!

Tokyo Marathon Hero interviews

Two of us from SRC ran the tokyo marathon last sunday.
Hara-san cut down his PR(personal record) by 26mins
finishing 3:39. I finished in 2:51.
The temperature was so cold that during the race it started
snowing. we got totally wet and cold and i saw a lot of people
quiting the race along the way.
anyway, my race did go okay... thinking about how much training
i put in. i was training just once a week. less than 100km/mo.
i really think my barefoot training is kicking in so that i run
more efficiently.
my next race is san diego rockn' roll marathon in the begging of june
so i hope you can break my pr for that race.

here are some video clips from the after party of the marathon.
please enjoy.

NHK World Live Interview

here is the link to the interview
because it was live, I got really nervous...
damedesune...