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The middle year "8th run: given two-minute homework" that aimed at sub 4 in order to know the feelings of the runner

Why run 42.195 km? What is fun? I can not fully understand myself as a full marathon inexperienced person. Friends around me started a marathon, and that mystery just got deeper. The eighth run is the story of the Osaka marathon day and the next goal.

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Here is the seventh run

When I was watching the Tokyo marathon, my suffering at the Osaka Marathon and the feelings of joy after running ran Flashback.

Actually running 42.195 Km, I can understand the superhuman of Yuta Shitara who issued the new Japan record. Even if he runs his best, he runs at speeds that can only be hundreds of meters, or only a few meters.
  

By the way, I realized that I didn't write the result of the Osaka Marathon in the KING GEAR column. I wrote records and impressions on Facebook etc., so I felt like writing in the column. ..

Let's spell out the story of that time that I remember like yesterday. (First of allGo 7Please look back)

I entered Osaka a little earlier than Ryuta Yamamura (flumpool) and SEIYA (JARNZΩ) who had been practicing with me. I went to the venue of the Osaka Marathon Expo to get a number etc. before it was crowded.

There are lots of exhibitions and sales of huge Mizuno shoes and marathon related products.

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Also to Mr. Konoshi Kawauchi, the youngest of the three brothers in that Kawauchi! Mr. Konohi is currently president of K · K Sports Corporation.
 
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Buy a waist pouch to put in jelly and supplements to drink while running! Purchase jelly etc. in advance in Tokyo!

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Nutrition is essential to complete the unknown 42.195km.
   
And the next day (Osaka Marathon the day before) SEIYA also joined!
 
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I also met Master eyeron, who has set a goal of less than 2 hours and 45 minutes.
 
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 With such a long awake day, to prepare for the Osaka marathon next morning, we decided to make SEIYA the last dinner before the convention. Remembering from the large-angle coach that "Una-rice is good", I will search for shops that can eat Una-don.

This was hard. I walked around a lot and finally found a soba restaurant just before I thought I should give up because my legs seemed to be tired from the power of Unadon! There is also Unadon.

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We ate a bowl of bowl with less eel and went to bed without thinking about it. I can not sleep. Although rarely can not sleep, in order to run an unknown long distance of 42.195 Km, "I have to sleep a lot!" I put pressure on myself and eventually I could not sleep.
 
Calculate the start time of the marathon back and go to the breakfast venue at 5 AM. Ryuta-kun, who moved at the end of the live in Fukuoka, also joined. "I couldn't sleep at all," he said. I couldn't say "me too". ..

Take the bus to the waiting room before the start.

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I also finished the toilet and waited for the start.

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Take a group photo with TEAM KIAI that you put in and finally start!

Together we practiced and decided to follow up with Ryuta - kun and SEIYA probably about the same target time.

An accident occurred a few meters after the start. I immediately wanted to go to the bathroom. I run while checking the availability of toilets every several hundred meters. I can only see the toilet.

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As in the practice, the three of us were talking and running.

Ryuta "You haven't talked about the toilet since you started! I feel like I want to go, so please stop (laughs)."

SEIYA"It's too late, I came to want to go to the toilet with a sticky thing, as I will go when Kohei-san goes on, please say that!"

SEIYA I'm sorry (lol)
  

Another accident occurred. About 4km from the start, Ryuta asked, "How many minutes does Kohei's watch run at a pace of 1km?"

Because I only saw the toilet, I saw the watch for a long time, and it turned into a pedometer mode.

When I told him that, there was enough tsukkomi to look back on the runners around me. "Why isn't it!"

Now, apart from talking about the toilet, I don't know how fast I'm running. With this, I had to keep up with Ryuta & SEIYA even if it wasn't true.

Ryuta - kun 's running speed increases about 20% when receiving cheers such as "Ryuta - do your best !!" and support a lot on the roadside of Ryuta - kun who is the charity ambassador of the Osaka marathon.

The same is true when responding to high touch. To the self that seems to be leaked, the speed of this speed was taken into the body.

   
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Finally, I found a toilet that is not lined up around 15km! Dive with SEIYA. Even though it wasn't lined up very much, it was a loss time of less than 5 minutes.

The difficult time to catch up with Ryuta continued. I only know the number of steps, so when I asked SEIYA "How fast is it now?", He said, "It's dangerous. It's about four and a half kilometers." * Km ⇒ per 1km

Obviously over-paced. This is because it was a strategy to aim for Sub 4 at a constant pace of about 5 minutes 30 seconds to 40 seconds from the start to the goal.

20KmHe caught up with Ryuta - kun near the point and joined. For a while I was running running "shirts" etc. to distract you, but there was a strange change in SEIYA about 30 Km.

"I am going at my own pace because my legs are stuck, I will catch up with you again."
It is an unknown world from 30 Km for himself. There was departure of SEIYA and a sense of tension came out.

However, Ryuta runs with a smile responding to everything that is possible for the cheers on the road from the start point to the start. Normally amazing! I feel like I will not lose sight of his back.
 

I was desperately following, but at around 35km, the back of my left foot was stuck. Ryuta-kun's back was far away. As I walked, I thought, "Is this the end?", But when I saw Ryuta-kun's back running while responding to the cheers, he said "I can't lose!"

I was afraid of the toilet and thought that I didn't supply much water, so I drank water and sprinkled it on my whole body. I drank the supplement that was in the pochette. It may be too late because it's hung.

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I managed to catch up by running while dragging my left foot. However, at around 39km, the back of the thigh of the right foot, which is the opposite foot, got stuck. "The full marathon is odd!" How many times did you think so while walking?

I shook water as I did when I took the left foot and chased the last jelly I brought.If I shift a little bit, I feel like sticking my legs, catching up with a strange way of running.

The last 2 Km was again a fight against fear of vine. Rita-kun, who is running together, is responding with crying "cheerfully!" To the cheering like the start, while literally carrying the body with full bodily creation. There is nothing.
  

I could see the letters 4:01 from a few hundred meters left to the goal. It was the moment when the goal of Sub 4 was not achieved. Goal without hanging again! It was a record of 4 hours 2 minutes 14 seconds in net time.

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It may be an exaggeration, but there were various emotions in this 42.195km like life, such as going to the bathroom and budding a feeling of giving up.

Immediately after it was over, the impression was, "It was very painful but fun."

And the regret that I did not reach the goal for 2 minutes.

When I saw the iPhone that had been stored in the pochette, "Congratulations on completing the race! Let's go out because there is a half marathon tournament in Tachikawa on March 4th!", Said Mr. Kobayashi, the director of niko and ... ..

It was runners high, so if it's half, it's an easy win! I thought, "I will come out!" The next morning, I read it back with my tattered body and regretted replying with a glue.

That 's why I will be on the Tachikawa City Half marathon on March 4.
   
Continue to the 9th run

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