Minokamo Showa Mura 1/2 2013

Minokamo Showa Mura 1/2 2013 by k_brown at Garmin Connect - 

Back to normal this week.  Kate was back to school and all was well in the world until Klaire started throwing up Thursday. I started feeling a bit crappy on Friday and by Saturday afternoon was afraid I was going to have to scratch the Minokamo Showa Mura 1/2  but by Saturday night I was feeling much better.  Then on Saturday night we got a call from grandma's house where Kate staying with her cousin for the weekend.  Of course Kate was not feeling well so I picked her up, brought her home and resigned myself to staying home to help Kaz with the kids but Kaz woke me up in time to make it to the race and shoved me out the door so not only did I manage to avoid the worst of whatever it was the girls got but I also got my 4 runs in including my third go at the Show Mura 1/2 marathon.

  My friend Nick has a great YouTube channel about his running life in Japan. He posted this bit about the race http://youtu.be/Ou9OQmOR8sU  I'm not as techy as he is so I leave all the hard work to him.

I finished the race in 2:16:xx which is down from last years of 1:59:xx.  I have my reasons though.  

Tawnee Prazak and Lucho  at http://www.EndurancePlanet.com/ gave me solid advice about how to run this race in this episode of ask the ultra runner  http://ow.ly/2ubmOy 

Basically they said don't race it. More specifically Lucho told me that with only a month since my marathon the Showa Mura event had the potential to hurt me more than help me and suggested I split it into thirds running each third at a progressively higher heart rate.  Zone2, Zone3, Zone4.  Great in theory but difficult in practice.  The Showa course has a lot of long hills and staying in the prescribed zones often meant walking.

  

Show Mura on Training peaks 

Sure hope  +Tawnee Prazak and Lucho see this and have some comments for me.  

The 2nd week in review.

Back to normal this week.  Kate is back to school.  All is well in the world.  Managed to get my 4 runs in this week including my third go at the Show Mura 1/2 marathon. My friend Nick has a great YouTube channel about his running life in Japan.  http://youtu.be/Ou9OQmOR8sU  I'm not as techy as he is so I'll let him do the hard work.

I finished the race in 2:16:xx which is down from last years of 1:59:xx.  I have my reasons though.  
My friends  Tawnee Prazak and Lucho  at http://www.EndurancePlanet.com/ gave me solid advice about how to run this race in this episode of ask the ultra runner  http://ow.ly/2ubmOy Basically they said don't race it. More specifically Lucho told me that with only a month since my marathon the Showa Mura event had the potential to hurt me more than help me and suggested I split it into thirds running each third at a progressively higher heart rate.  Zone2, Zone3, Zone4.  Great in theory but difficult in practice.  The Showa course has a lot of long hills and staying in the prescribed zones often meant walking.  
Show Mura on Training peaks

It was a good first week full of friends, family, running and skiing.

The First Week of 2013

  My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed waking up before dawn and climbing Hatobuki Mountain to watch the sunrise. Together with some relatives and about half the population of this little town I live in we welcomed the year of the snake.  I can't even remember the last time we climbed that hill together but I look forward to doing it many more times.   As if that wasn't enough exercise, Nathaniel from GIFU runners called me up and we did an easy (for him) 10k that included a stop at the shinto shrine Shirahige Jinja, where we clapped our hands and bowed our heads and threw a little money in the hopper.  After lunch and a shower it was off to a temple called Narita San for another Hatsumode.

On the fourth the whole family went skiing at Arkopia resort in Takayama.  A great family ski hill about 2 hours from home. http://www.arkopia.jp/

• Logged 47 km and feel like I am on my way to getting back to running the way I want to.  

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/2012/jul/02/transcript/

Here is the transcript(printed words) for an interview between the movie actor Alec Baldwin and a Pediatrician (children's doctor) speaking about the evils of the white stuff(sugar).

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/2012/jul/02/transcript/