Today, I ran UP RUN Saiko Winter Marathon, and my time was 2:58:32. The course was around the Saiko (a lake in Toda city in Saitama Pref. in Japan), and its distance was 5 km for 1 round. I ran 8 rounds and 2.195km. It was small Marathon race. The participant number for Full Marathon was 73. There was also 30 km, Half, 15 km, 10 km, and 5 km, then the total participant number may be ~500.

As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved 12 consecutive week sub-3 as below table. This was started in the Gumma Marathon on Nov/3rd. In this period, I achieved 15 sub-3s so far. I survived 2-days Ultra-Marathon on Jan/6th and 7th between Ueno in Tokyo and Hakone in Shizuoka Pref. That distance was total ~230 km. This is amazing!!!