Tokyo Marathon

As promised to myself, and the scores of tokyomarathon.net readers, I actually went running today. Well, more of a spirited amble. Popped around the Imperial Palace, a route of 5Km. Time .. well, err, 36 minutes.

The important thing to do, is not to multiply that by 8, to achieve a time for 40Km ( Marathonesque.. ) of 288 minutes, or 4 3/4 hours. There was no way I could have run another metre at the end of that, let alone done it twice. Forget it, eight times around the Imperial Palace ? On the same day ? I’ll be lucky to log that this entire month. Still, I have actually started, so …
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