February 17, 2017
Hello Nanbanners, On Saturday, 11th February, I completed the Shinrinkoen half-marathon, in Saitama, in a time of 1:33:56. This was the third race of my first competitive running season – […]
February 4, 2017
Net Time 1:35:37 This was the 5th time that I had run the Chiba Marine Half Marathon since my first time in 2012. I was supposed to run last year, […]
February 4, 2017
January 29th marked the 15th running of the Shinjuku City Half Marathon (plus 10km and family/children’s events). The convenience and novelty of running in the center of the city and […]
November 12, 2016
Unlike last year, for this year’s Namban Rengo Run & BBQ (Nov. 6), we got the beautiful weather we deserve. A strong wind was in our faces on the return […]
October 4, 2016
Namban Rengo participated in this 3-hour relay charity ekiden in Tokyo’s Odaiba district and came away with a surprising 5th position overall out of 184 teams. The event was held […]
June 25, 2016
This road race is an offbeat challenge, and one of the few races where I carry my phone to take photographs because the scenery is so beautiful. Mt. Norikura of […]
June 9, 2016
A laid back low key event, you can enter via Runnet, but I managed to get us in a month before the event. There is a marathon(ish) length run and […]
May 27, 2016
Start time 5:00am This was my second 100km ultra marathon after running Hida Takayama (Gifu prefecture) 100km in June 2015. I experienced so much from that event, but was also […]
March 21, 2016
The Tamako Ekiden (March 20) is a relay race around Lake (reservoir) Tama, about 25 minutes west of Shinjuku. The distance is an exact 7.242km, the course is rolling the […]