rie and i headed out to watch the nagoya international women's marathon yesterday and we were rewarded with a great race and a great result. rie's colleague from tsukuba university, fujinaga-san, won and will now be going to the world championships in berlin. it was her first marathon and she won by running a controlled race, coming from behind at around the 37km mark and winning comfortably in the end in a time of 2 hours 28 minutes 13 seconds. very fast. it was also the last race for crowd-favourite and former olympic champion takahashi-san (more famously known as Qchan). took a couple of photos on my phone:
Qchan
Fujinaga-san
it was so cool watching all the runners come in. it gave me some inspiration for my marathon debut at the end of this month, but also some fear after seeing some of these high-class runners really struggling at the end of the race. it's a long way! but as rie said, "it's your first marathon so whatever happens it will be a personal best!". nice, i love my wife!
Fujinaga-san
it was so cool watching all the runners come in. it gave me some inspiration for my marathon debut at the end of this month, but also some fear after seeing some of these high-class runners really struggling at the end of the race. it's a long way! but as rie said, "it's your first marathon so whatever happens it will be a personal best!". nice, i love my wife!
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment