Tokyo Marathon

Set out at about 9am and ran north from Belmond Green with no plan but to run until I dropped.  After running for about 7km along the roads with no one else about I came to an area of sweety people which were either coming or heading to a park.  The park turned out to be the McRichie Reservoir.  There is a running track around the whole reserve which is a wood platform built above the ground and is about 10km long.  A very nice cool run.

Funny that I can’t find any pictures of the reserve but I think Google Map satelite is correct: http://maps.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&z=15&ll=1.346002,103.824148&spn=0.031791,0.039911

Heading out from McRichie Reserve I ran aimlessly and began to get sore shins bt pushed until I had reached my 20.09km target.  Before hopping in a Taxi home again.

I suffed up my leg on Sat by not streching first and then running. While its getting better slowly I still can’t run more than about 3 steps. Does anyone have any tips for a more speedy recovery ? I’m going to get some medicated patches called “shipu” tonight. The cool ones are supposed to be better for sport injuries, it seems.  

Its me, Graham from Reuters, joined the marathon .. and this is my first test post.

I went and bought a Camelbak Bike 2.0 a little while ago becuase I was feeling quite ill after the longer runs.  Unfortunately this pretty much guarenteed that I wont do a long run for ages so I have no idea if it is good or not.

Alright it’s Tokyo Marathon Quiz Time. Cue funky music and cheesy, over-illuminated set. Your bouffant host arrives with a couple of corkers :

Question 1. An easy one for warm up :

“What is the difference between Reza’s training regime and the item below ? ”

… ?

Question 2. A difficult one, for Quiz veterans only :

“What the difference between Paul and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ?”

Tricky that, so you get a hint …

Answers to the usual address on the back of a thousand yen note.

Results soon….  

last night just to get an idea of speed for 5k.. i pretty much ran flat out and finished at 24 min. took a rest for 3 or 4 min then headed out for another 10k. 24.min. 30.min. 33.min total time (not counting the break) 87 min for 15k. gonna try another 20k run this week & hope it goes better than the last one!

borrowed a book from Mr Lee Jewett titled ‘The Triathletes Training Bible’ thats pretty interesting. Im primarily looking at the running section that has some good info on biomechanics & how to run ‘effeciently’ wich is needed for long distance.