gunma ken marathon! (in my case only a quarter marathon)

this sunday, after spending most of saturday drinking wine at the coco winery harvest festival, i ran the 10k "marathon" in maebashi. my friend lisa and i entered together and we were initially very apprehensives as neither of us has ever (in our lives) ran that much. we were nervous as we listened for the much-awaited starting gun. however, our fears abated as we kept our pace slow and steady (we both read the "turtle and the hare" story when we were youngin's).

to our surprise, it was easy. i am still sort of shocked that i was not really that tired afterwards. and today i am amazed that i am not sore at all. when did i turn into a running machine? truth be told: i haven't. but that's not what it looks like in this photo. no? fine.

anyway, i ended up finishing 381st out of about 800 women. my time being: 1hr 4min 00sec. if you want to study some japanese you can search for this on the certificate. we also received t-shirts and free water. bonus.


p.s. still going to korea. woohoo!