Juergen wittstock's Blog – April 2011 Archive (6)

Running great Mari Tanigawa, winner of the Paris Marathon 1994 (2:27:55) visited us at WIRED CAFE<>FIT today, Masako and myself were happy to see her again after a long time, and as beautiful as ever!

Today we had beautiful weather, but web-sources told of high radiation. Still, people had a wonderful time at our second event at Lake Saiko, the Spring 5k! Thank you very much for coming out, and many thanks to all the people who helped!

Hope to run with everybody again…

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Running hero and inspiration Ed Whitlock set another world record! He became the fastest 80-year-old ever, running the Rotterdam Marathon in 3:25:40!

The picture shows Ed a few years ago with our member, fellow Canadian David Deubelbeiss, himself a former World-record holder -…

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In spite of some navigation problems due to the fact that team leader James (Yorkshire Madman) Midgley forgot his maps we finished in just under 4:30h, achieving our target for the 40k around Yamanote Line in spite of running a full marathon (42:22 according to my Garmin).

Thanks to all of the people who watched us on Ustream - check out the videos (link above) if you…

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A beautiful day at the Path of Philosophy, and a lot of good people who donated for the earthquake victims. A young couple of runners who I had handed my flyer came running after me to hand me a 1000Yen note, and a group of foreigners celebrating under the cherry trees donated 500Yen each.

May go for a second run later…

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