Saturday, March 31, 2018

Japanese Record of consecutive 22 week sub-3s

Today, I ran the UP RUN Katsushikaku Arakawa Kasenjiki Horikiribashi Marathon in Tokyo, and my time was 2:56:33. It's very flat course. The participant number for Full Marathon was 38. The total participant number was ~500.
As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved consecutive 22-week sub-3s, and achieved 28th sub-3 in these 22 weeks. The consecutive 22-week sub-3s may be the Japanese Record as far as I know.
I don't know the World Record on this. If you know it, please let me know.

Below pictures are finisher certificate, participation award, and 1st place awards.






Saturday, March 24, 2018

Japanese Record of consecutive 21 week sub-3s

Today, I ran the Kashiwanoha Haru Ran Run Marathon in Chiba Pref., and my time was 2:53:35. It's very flat course. The participant number for Full Marathon was 93. The total participant number was ~600.
As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved consecutive 21-week sub-3s, and achieved 27th sub-3 in these 21 weeks. The consecutive 21-week sub-3s may be the Japanese Record as far as I know. Former Record of consecutive 20-week sub-3s  was achieved by Mr. K. C. in Tokyo, Japan in 1995.
I don't know the World Record on this. If you know it, please let me know.

Below pictures are finisher certificate, 3rd place award, participation award, and sights of the event.





Monday, March 19, 2018

The status of 20-week sub-3 in a row is below table. In this 20 weeks, I achieved 26 sub-3s. And I ran 41 Full-Marathons and 2 Ultra-Marathons.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Today, I ran the Itabashi City Marathon in Tokyo, and my time was 2:56:06. It's very flat course. The participant number for Full Marathon was 15,000. The total participant number was ~20,000.
As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved consective 20-week sub-3s, and achieved 26th sub-3 in these 20 weeks.


Below pictures are sights of the event.



Thursday, March 8, 2018

Today I ran full-marathon in Challenge 2020 1162nd day. My time was 2:58:35. Pictures and articles are posted by organizer in below link.

https://www.facebook.com/c2020marathon/posts/1991465841171464
(In Japanese only. Sorry...)

As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved 19 weekly sub-3 in a row as I mentioned previously.
And this was my 280th Full Marathon.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Today, I ran the 14th UP RUN Inage Kaihin Park Marathon in Chiba Pref., and my time was 2:58:41. It's very flat course, but the wind was very strong today because the park is on the sea side. The participant number for Full Marathon was 27. The total participant number was ~300.
As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved consective 2-day sub-3s, and achieved 24th sub-3 in these 18 weeks.

Below pictures are sights of the event, participation award, and 1st place award.




Friday, March 2, 2018

Today, I ran the 3rd Sportsmaterun's Katsushika-ku Awakara Kasenjiki Horikiri-bashi Marathon in Tokyo, and my time was 2:55:57. It's very flat course, but the wind was strong when I ran toward upwind because of river bed. The participant number for Full Marathon was 37. The total participant number was ~300.
As I achieved sub-3 today, I achieved 18 weekly sub-3 in a row, and this is 23rd sub-3 in these 18 weeks.

Below pictures are sights of the event, participation award, and 1st place award.