Tokyo Marathon

Weight : 68 Kg
Kilometres since last blog: 5
Total Km : 15
Positivometer : 8

 Went with Joe again. Same time ( 32 mins ) but it felt a lot easier. Thats it for this week.

Seems my body got fatter as I snoozed. Fat percentage over 19% this morning. Well, according to my scales, which have an electronic fat meter on them. Appears to work by measuring the electrical resistance between the right and left foot ( going through the body of course ), combining it with your weight ( as you are standing on the scales at the time ) and height ( which you program in ).

Doesnt work very well.. at least +/- 5% increments depending on time of day, and I seem to observe, dryness of feet. Wont go into that deeper

Weight : 68 Kg
Fat % : 16.8
Kilometres since last blog: 0
Total Km : 10
Positivometer : 8

Went for another run around the Palace, this time with Joe-san. Managed it in 32 minutes this time, mainly due to me hiding behind Joe’s slipstream. Still, improvement.

Postivometer: 8

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 …
Positivometer: 9