35days to go

It was a nice weather for a long running, I was supposed to run for over 30k at my marathon pace around the Imperial Palace. One old man closed up and asked me "How many kilometer is around?" Then I answered him "It's about 5km." Before becomig a runner, I had no idea it's 5km, and no interesting at all, but now I could have memories of mileage for running places in Tokyo.

Actually my condition is pretty good so far, I only worry about my left ankle which I twisted in mountain running in Karuizawa in this summer that's why I have acupuncture treatment sometimes. Due to my tainer's recommendation, I bought leg supporters that help to move from curf muscle to ankle. I tried to use them today, but I got sore legs, I think it could be worse if I didn't use them.

My mileage is still building up for around 110km as this weekly mileage, I would love to run a bit more, but saved my energy not to get huge distance and any injury.

I ran with Mary and my coach Steve, suddenly Christian came up behind of me around Takebashi, he was running very fast pace. Does he run for Ohtawara??? for a marathon??? Anyway, his condition also looks pretty good, Mary kept running just a little bit of slower than me, she is a poweful funky lady, but Steve got leg pain on curf so shame.

Today, there was a running event around the Palace, so it was crowded with lots of runners.
I was going to make even splits for 25km, first lap was the harder than 2nd lap, because my body still was not able to run at race pace, but just ran harder as much I could. I tried to count the flowers signs each 100m, just took 27 to 28 sec evenly, it was perfect as planned.
I took inside course of sakurada-mon and outside of Sakurada-mon altermately.
Had some water and gels twice as planned, I felt like running more after 25k, perhaps I might be able to make my PR in Tokyo International Women's Marathon.