Hi Rod,
Welcome to the website. I hope it has everything you need. And if you need any running advice please feel free to ask. Otherwise just roll up to Juergen's training sessions at Oda Field every Wednesday.
Owain

Welcome to the site!
Great I am not the only one welcoming people!
Thank you for joining this website, and I hope to see you at a training-run or a race soon. We try our best to assist foreign runners to navigate to difficulties of the Japanese running bureaucracy, and fortunately, have a lot of Japanese members who can help with that.
I'm looking forward to seeing your blog-posts and other running-related content on this website!
Cheers, Juergen (website-creator)

P.S.: How about a nice profile-picture?

Yes, nice people here, and all love running. Good that my friend Owain, from rural Korea, contributes such a lot - sometimes the internet really does great things to connect people!