It is Autumn and with it comes a spate of 'Marason Taikai', literally Marathon (running) events. None of them actually involve a full 42.142km marathon, but in Japan anything over a thousand meters qualifies as a marason. Inspired by Daddy's example (as opposed to being shamed by the steady uptick in the weighing scales), both Sanae and Cian have embraced long distance running. Last weekend saw us all up at Forest Kozan for the annual Green Race. Cian ran 3km, Sanae successfully completed her inaugural 5km, and Daddy avoided the bears on his slow 20km through the woods.
This weekend sees the debut of the Santa Land Hiroo marathon, sorry, marason. Cian has his 'Saturday Morning Variety Show at the Mizumoto Palladium' tomorrow morning straight after which we jump in the Mazda for the four hour drive to Hiroo.
Long distance driving before the long distance running.
The race is on Sunday, and again the Gaynor-Takahashi family plans to dominate the 3km, 5km and 21km events. Then we all pile back into the Mazda and drive another 4 hours home and wonder if we have enough energy left to watch any of the weekend's rugby.
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