Juergen wittstock's Blog – October 2011 Archive (4)

Today, a bigger group of runners ran the Turtle half-marathon cum 10k at Arakawa River near Kita-Senju. This is a very big race, about 16000 runners, 12000 in the half, 4000 in the 10k.

As some of us went there by themselves, I could not get everybody's results, so forgive me if I start  with my own race, the 10k. My target was a 4min/k pace, so Takashi Nobukiyo, our…

Yesterday, we had a beautiful day at Lake Saiko, with a course record for the men in 32:45 set by Onuma-san! Invitational runner Gerard Robb placed 4th in 34:46.

In the women's division, our flying Finn Saara Pekkarinen flew away from her competitors in 37:15, of course, this is also a course record, receiving a pair of Brooks shoes, an invitation to the Tengu Trails…

Shigeho Minematsu, well-known Kyoto-based artist and designer, and a star-organizer of the Kamogawa Eco 5k on Nov. 6., has lost a lot of weight during the preparation for the race! It is still possible to apply, come along an join Shigeho's diet plan!

On this picture, he is holding on of the…

Well, Christoph asked me to write a bit more about my training, so I decided to make it a blog-post. September was not a particularly interesting month - but I will try to amend my usually cryptic blog-style so everybody understands - hopefully. Would be nice if others did the same, so we could have some discussion about training here on the site.

3. 5k

4. 43k including darmstadt full - 3:51:56 - I ran this full marathon in Germany because I had made the pledge to run a 10k, a…