- - - 10/2/2011 - - -

Sagamihara Ekiden

Filed under: — Andy @ 5:01 am

My Swiss friend invited me to run an ‘ekiden’ with him and his running group. We had a total of 4 men/women mixed teams of 4 people each running about 5 kilometers. My friend, Daniel, and I were on different teams but we were both running the second lap. I didnt have much time in the previous month to train for the run so I was going into this without any preparation. Daniel’s teammate arrived first and so had a head start. My teammate arrived about 3 minutes later at which point my goal was to catch up with my friend somehow. I started off pretty fast and was passing a lot of people, but around the half-way point I started to cramp up. Regardless, I continued on. Around the 4 kilometer mark I finally caught up with him!, but at that point my stomach was very cramped and I didnt want to run anymore. Yet I kept fighting the pain and kept running trying to keep up with my friend who had a steady pace the entire time. We crossed the line and handed it off to the next runner about the same time. I sat down to rest.

My overall time for the 5k was about 22 minutes.


My team.


My friend.


The starting runners.

Comments

  1. WOW! Great job. Maybe you’re faster than me now? Your friend must have been so elated! I remember "helping” my friend in a team race. I went second as well. He beat the entire field but when we finished 10th or so he was like, "man, what happened?”

    Comment by ken — 10/11/2011 @ 11:45 pm
  2. You mean SAGAMIHARA, right?

    Comment by mamamegami — 10/12/2011 @ 9:23 am
  3. Oops, Yes I did.. Fixed.

    Comment by Andy — 10/12/2011 @ 11:44 pm

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