Mr. Donut

- I manage a 36:22 10k at Ohtawara last Sunday despite my feeble mileage.












- Solette, Staffan, and Mary from the US all are captivated by the unique Japanese running experience













- In the end it is all about coffee and honey-dips at Mr. Donut

Fast Seattle Women

I wished to get in at least one quality training session during my 3 weeks in the US.  So last night I returned to Seattle's Green Lake track to run with the unfriendly running club mentioned in my June 28 post.  

The group may not offer a warm welcome, but they certainly provide a rigorous workout:

4x1000 at 3:25 with a mere 60-second rest, then after a brisk 10 minute run we launched into 4x400 in 77, 75, 73 and finally a blowout 69-seconds.

I was roughly in the middle of the group of about 30 runners.  Maybe that is not surprising.  But get this - running right around me (and ahead of me) were 7-8 women, several around 40 years old.  So much for my dismissing all American woman runners as overweight, 7-hour marathoners carrying balloons and raising money for charities. The woman next to me, Susan, was 39-years old and had run a 2;47 marathon last year.