Saitama Running Club (English)

about Saitama Running Club

2010-11-22T11:28:00.002+09:00

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

2010-03-28T22:36:00.003+09:00

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!

2010-03-21T23:41:00.002+09:00

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

2010-03-11T23:50:00.004+09:00

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

2010-03-06T22:13:00.002+09:00

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

2010-03-05T11:48:00.003+09:00

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

2010-02-26T18:08:00.003+09:00

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

SRC's 3rd Time Trial Result

2010-02-24T15:01:00.002+09:00

We did a 5km time trial yesterday.
here is the result

1 yoshino 17:45
2 ogata san 19:38
3 arai san 20:22
4 michael 20:45
5 morodome san20:42 (net time)
6 obayashi san 24:42
7 nakajima san 28:36

LSD to Minuma Nature Park

2010-02-20T12:26:00.003+09:00

We ran toward Minuma nature park today. Most of us ran about 18km taking 90-100mins.

Just a little info was released about the tokyo marathon cheering??

3 guys from SRC is running tokyo marathon next sunday.

The people who want to cheer us up will gather at Hibiya Kadan Mae

and the after-hour party will be held at Norubune, Odaiba brunch.

That's all I know for now, so as soon as I get the detail information,

I will email.

here is the photo of michael and yazaki-san

Today's practice at Besyonuma park

2010-02-18T22:31:00.003+09:00

8 people came today including 2 new comers (one Australian (New Zealander mix?) guy

and one Japanese lady)

He's the first foreigner to join the Saitama Running Club.

Since I haven't updated this english version of the blog,

I should do some update.

I started the club in the middle of October when only one lady was the member.

But the number has been increasing quickly and now it's about 30 people in the club.

The ages of the members range from mid 20's to late 40's.

The club is for all runners but do the same training with different intensity.

and that is my philosophy for running, which the training for each person shouldn't differ

too much although the intensity can be different. That's why all of our runners

do interval workouts, tempo runs and even calisthetic training.

Anyway, the club promotion is still on so if you know anyone who might be intersted

in joining us, please let them know. It's only 2000yen a month till the end of march.

can't beat it! the average cost for running club in tokyo is anywhere from 6000-12,000yen/mo

TIME TRIAL

2009-12-03T22:55:00.003+09:00

Time trail is going to be Held on the 13th of Dec.
Stats at 9am Aokicho-park (by Nishi Kawaguchi station)
please email me for details.

Cancelation of training session due to weather condition

2009-12-03T22:53:00.002+09:00

If it's raining, please check saitamarunning.blogspot.com to see if the
training is canceled or not. (available only in Japanese)

Party info on Dec 11th

2009-12-03T22:45:00.002+09:00

We are having a little gathering party on Dec 11th.
Loacation: BOKURYUTEI restaurant at 7pm
Address: 5-3-11 Shimoochiai, Chuouku, Saitama city
TEL 0488-853-6887
Home made style cozy restaurant!
Cost 4000yen (not all you can drink but a few drinks included)
Schedule
7pm-8pm running training
8pm-10pm PARTY!

if you need to cancel, please do so by the latestest by 12pm on the day of.
please call me or email me direct for cancelation
ihsoy98@docomo.ne.jp
090-5210-0877