Juergen wittstock's Blog – May 2011 Archive (3)

The winning Team!

The picture shows this years winners, James, Ko-san, Yoshi and Juergen! Great teamwork, we ran almost the time we predicted, 16:44/16:30, we lost a few minutes because we got off course once, and had to return to a check-point because we forgot to "Check Out". As we are new to this race, it…

Through the love of running, and the love that runners have to help others in need, on April 30th, Waves of Hope for Japan run/walk held at Ormond Beach, Florida raised over $27000 for earthquake victims. 233 adults and 54 kids attended the event!

Ho Tsai, the organizer, who had been in Japan when the quake struck, said she had been inspired by our charity at Saiko Eco 5k. Of course, we would have been happy if she had come, but as her absence gave her the chance to organize such a…

Yoshi, James and Juergen checked out the course of the OXFAM TRAILWALKER yesterday, with navigation prooving more of a challenge than expected. We started at Odawara, running up the course to Lake Ashi, James and Yoshi took the bus back to Hakone Yumoto, running about 35k, yours truly ran down another 19k to…