Running with Eric Wainaina.
Last Saturday when I was running alone around the Imperial Palace, I met Eric Wainaina, Eri Hayakawa and their coach Nakajima-san. I was actually runnning clockwise to expect if I could encounter some friends or famous runners and it was bingo!
As I once interviewed Wainaina for Runners Magazine, he somehow remembered me and ran a lap with me!!! He was doing cool down jog after 800m intervals at that time and he said to me it's OK to run at my jog pace, but I tried a bit hard to run faster than my usual jog pace. It was so honoured to run with the 3 time Olympian (bronze at Atlanta, silver at Sydney, 7th in Athens), and he even gave me some advices for my running form. Wainaina-san, arigato!
He will run Hokkaido Marathon this August for his 4th victory there. Let's check it out.
Last week run
Mon: rest
Tue: 17k jog
Wed: 23.6k (10.6k jog in the morning, 13k at the Oda field and out & back jog)
Thu: 10.6k jog
Fri: 10.6k jog
Sat: 17k jog (5k with Wainaina!)
Sun: 17.5k at Kamakura trail (Jay, thanks for organizing)
Week total: 96.3k
posted by mika t. @ 10:39 am
4 Comments:
Mika, that's so cool that you ran with an Olympic champion. My dream (or is it fantasy?) is to have a run with Q-chan ;-)
You certainy have got the km up now. Please be careful. I think it will make you strong if you can keep it up, but I am just a bit worried about the risk of injury. Maybe it is because I feel so fragile myself at the moment. Get some massage and don't forget to do hip flexor (clam) and core strength exercises ね！
Steve, thanks for your advice. Yes, I think I should do some exerises for my core muscle. Maybe yoga is good as I don't like weight things...Or swiming.
Happy Birthday Mika!
I wish we would have known earlier so we could have had balloons and streamers.
Jay, thank you so much!
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