The Greater Perrinville Athletic Association

Last week (week 8) was a monster week of training for me at 19.5 hours. I realized that with an upcoming trip to the US, followed by some ...

This afternoon I participated in the inaugural session of Tokyo's Yoga For Runners. Micheal Glenn guided David Motozo, David Halle, Ke...

The Namban Rengo running club likes to run time trials. The last Wednesday of each month the club members powers through a punishing 5,000 o...

If you follow the Arakawa river trail far north of Tokyo, past the gleaming towers of Omiya, through quiet bucolic rice fields, deep into t...

Snow fell heavily on Tokyo this weekend. Today the Arakawa bicycle trail remains blanketed in snow and a brutal cold wind whips across the K...

The sidewalk around the Imperial Palace grounds in the heart of Tokyo provides a 5-kilometer loop of uninterrupted runnning. This is my core...

My current existence is an odd and occasinally disconcerting mixture of poverty and luxury. One of the luxuries is access to the Roppongi ...

The Japanese civil authorities seem willing to go to amazing lengths to avoid any risk at all of flood damage. One result is the constructi...

Ekiden is a Japanese word which roughly translates as relay race, the term deriving from the traditional practice of each competitor runnin...

I need to complete long, slow, steady runs in preparation for the full marathon. But the one constant in my life is on Wednesday night I go ...

In my first triathlon some six years ago the swim was only 400 yards. I searched for a triathlon with the shortest possible swim leg. I s...

I have been training for New Zealand Triathlon since early December. When I started training in December I did not really believe I would ...

I had concluded that someday, in the very distance future, say when I am back living again in Palo Alto, or Honolulu, I would attempt to ful...