Hi! I'm Yuto! 

Today's theme is full marathon. I challenged a full marathon!

I participated Makomanai Marathon in 11/3. There were 2 types of full marathon and 10km marathon. This year, the number  of participants was about 1,700, the highest ever.

First of all, Why I challenge the full marathon. It's because I was wondering how hard. A marathon is very simple. However, I don't think there are any other sports that are so simple and hard.   I think that it is easier to challenge the competition of other sports because it only runs.Even I can participate. So I wanted to experience the difficulty of a full marathon. 

The Marathon started at 9:00. It was nice weather. but peak temperature was low of 9 degrees. There are pacemaker that run at various time in this tournament. I ran at pace of 6 minute per km.

I was worried before the race. Can I finish? In practice, I ran up to 20km. The running course has large difference in elevation. So it was harder than I expected. I hurted ankle, knee and hip joint one after another. Obviously, I was a lack of practice. I manage to keep pace up to  30km. After 30km, my legs became difficult to move. From there battle with me. I wanted to stop again and again. Especially close to 35km was hard. After 40km, I ran with just energy. And finally finished. Immediately after the finish, my legs felt like jelly. The recode was 4h 29m 04s. My target time is 4h 30m, So I achieve the goal!!

It was my first full marathon. So I'm very happy to be able to finished the race. If I challenge a race also next year I want to finish within 4 hour.

As I said at first, the purpose of this participation is to experience the difficulty of full marathon.　i tried and understood. It's so hard. And much accomplishment!!!!!

I feel so accomplishment! If you haven't run yet, how about it.

Thank you for reading! 

Next theme is about BUMP OF CHICKEN concert!!