Go back to the US

3/16/2014 No training

'Cause for shopping a bunch of Japanese foods and packing them.
I got some souvenior for myself.

These various flavor soy milk are really awesome! They were caused by Japanese technology!
Left to right; yogurt, grape fruit, marron, mango, peach, healthy coke!(It's limited sales until this September. Hurry up, if you want!), Kinako; soy beans powder, mixed various fruits, chocolat, banana, and sesami and honey...
Oops, I forgot to get pudding flavor...


3/17/2014 No training

I left my house at 6AM. My dad took me to the nearest station. Thanks dad...
It took about 2 and half hour to NRT by train and bus.
This time, I succeeded to upgrade to business class! So I went to Sakura lounge operated by Japan Airlines and took breakfast!


JL010 from NRT to ORD


New business class seat was really awesome! It can be flat bed! We can access the aisle without minding the other people.
It equips low-rebound matress and pillow too.



And also inflight meal are nice!





appetizers for 1st inflight meal,

salad,

main dish; Sauted rosy sea-bass.

and dessert; Mascarpone Mousse!


Light meal; Soy-marinated sea bream carpaccio Ochaduke (steamed rice with green tea based soup) and Premium Malts my favorite Japanese beer!


Washoku; Japanese traditional meal for 2nd inflight meal.


And finally, I could enjoy "Ama-Chan (the girl of Japanese traditional female diver)", the most popular Japanese TV drama now!!!

The drama had already ended the last year. In Japan, it calls the sadness caused by the end of this drama "Ama-loss"... LOL
As a detail for "Ama-chan", please refer the following site (Wikipedia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amachan

About 11hrs30min later from the departure, I arrived at ORD.


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"Orehako" run

3/15/2014
Run 38.3km 4:27

My friends set up an running event called as "Orehako", coming from "Hakone ekiden" college long distance relay between Tokyo and Hakone.
Hakone ekiden is one of famous running event in Japan. It is held every January 2nd and 3rd.
About the detail, please check the following website (Wikipedia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakone_Ekiden

This time, we tried to run the second half from Hakone to Tokyo.
I was in charge of 9th section 23.2km from Totsuka to Tsurumi. But it's not enough for Ironman and I wanted to save the travel expense to Totsuka.
So I ran about 10km from my house to Totsuka too.


About 15 minutes later when I arrived at Totsuka, some runner in charge of 8th section arrived there. And we started a couple of minutes later.
The course is on the one of important road in Japan, called as "Tokaido".
The road is narrow and was crowded, so we had to run on sidewalk.
It was very smoothly, but I felt hunger little by little.
If possible, I wanted to run 10th section continuously. but I stopped at Tsurumi and took a rest to eat rice ball.




After the rest, I ran again because I wanted to run more.
But as you know, it was too hard to run again after the rest...
Fortunately, I knew there is nice hot spring at Kamata, about 6km far from Tsurumi. So I decided there as my final destination.


The hot spring was really awesome. The admission fee was only JPY450(USD4.50).

After that, I went to Tokyo for well done party by train.

The construction for renewal of Tokyo station had already completed.


I enjoyed a bunch of awesome Japanese foods with my crazy Japanese friends!







Thank you for all! See you!


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Weekday in Japan

3/10/2014 No training

I took breakfast at "Komeda coffee" because I didn't buy any food yesterday.

They're most famous franchise cafe in Nagoya (Central of Japan), and they provide half cut toast and boiled egg for free every morning.
Also in there, we can eat Shiro-no-waire, their original sweets which is put soft ice cream on the pastry.

In the afternoon, I went the dental clinic for inspection.
After that, I went to the bicycle shop to ask the conversion of parts from my old 26" Project M to 2008's Cervelo P2SL. Because I can't get 26" tubular tire anymore...
From this to this .

In the evening, I took a hot spring at "Manten no yu" and ate sashimi for dinner.


3/11/2014 No training

I went shopping for souvenirs and ate soy sauce ramen and small rice bowl with grilled pork for lunch.

The soup was made with fish. But it didn't smell fishy.

And I received some new year card from my friends and co-workers.
Mariko-sama, one of my favorite Japanese female talent suggested to send reply for new year card, so I wrote their reply. But it wasn't smooth because I forgot many Japanese Kanji...


In the evening, I had a secret drinking party with some co-worker when I was in Japan. Because they'll move to Italy and Akita, and I have no idea when I meet them the next time...

3/12/2014
Run 11.4km 1:05

I took an exercise for the first time in 6 days!
I had a running at Sakaigawa river in the afternoon. This is one of my favorite running course.
There is the smallest farm in Japan in nearby. We can eat hand made gelato there.

3/13/2013 No training

It was cold, heavy wind, and rainy day.
So I went shopping to get some Japanese foods I'll bring to the US.
I stopped by Mos burger, one of burger franchise in Japan, and ate rice burger with miso flavor mackerel.
Rice burger is their original menu. The paty is made by steamed rice. It's really awesome!


3/14/2014 No training

I had little bit fatigue because I have no chance for walking long time in the US...
So I took a rest in daytime.
And I had a good time with my friend at night. Thank you for taking a wonderful time!


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Go back to Japan

3/8/2014

I got up 5:30 and went to CVG by car. It took about 45 minutes.

AA3069 from CVG to ORD

It took about 1hr30min to ORD.
But we had to wait about 20 minutes until arriving the gate...

In this time, I had the ticket for premium economy seat of Japan Airlines, so I could use the lounge!
But it wasn't Sakura lounge operated by JAL...
If we wanna use Sakura lounge at overseas airport, we need the ticket for first class or business class, or need to fly 50000 miles or more per a year by Oneworld alliance flight. They're really hard for me...

I took Sushi and beer for breakfast. Of course, they were for free!

And fortunately, I got two free drink tickets! So I could enjoy one more beer!

JL009 from ORD to NRT

Everytime I use Japan Airlines to go back to Japan.
Because they gives good customer service, good Japanese food, and reliability, for the Japanese who works in the US .

B777-300ER for North American region was renewed in January.
The premium economy seat has big personal display, AC outlet, USB port, video input port, and low-rebound pillow.

And also the seat pitch is wider than the previous one.

Japanese premium beer "Ebisu" for welcome drink,

Teriyaki chicken for 1st inflight meal,

Sandwithch and chocolate cake for refreshment,

,and pasta with white sauce for 2nd inflight meal.

After about 12h30min flight, we arrived at NRT.

I went to the lounge for relaxing.

And then I went to the restaurant and ate Tendon (rice bowl with Shrimp and vegetable tempura) and buckwheat for early dinner.


I spent a couple hours at the airport and arrived home at night...


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1 week before to go back to Japan

I had a plan to go back to Japan from March 8th to 17th as "spring vacation".
So I was busy that week...

3/3/2014, 3/4/2014
No training by the prepare for going back to Japan.
Of course, "the prepare" was included not only packing but my work!

3/5/2014
Swim 1.1km 0:35
3/6/2014
Swim 0.4km 0:20
Weight training abdominal, back, leg press
I swam a little including individual medley and flip turn because I had no plan to swim in Japan.

3/7/2014 No training
Because I hadn't completed the packing of my baggage. It took until the midnight...


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Snow rusell run and private swim lesson

3/2/2014
Run 24.3km2:04
Swim 1000yd1:00

It was light snow on Sunday, but there was no information of cancelation for today's running.
So I went to Starbucks at Blue Ash, start point.

10 minutes before, nobody was there,
and 5 minutes before, nobody were there.
Wow, is it cancel???
But 3 minutes before, our crazy guys came there...

Snow became heavy little by little, and roads were froze.
Some guys slipped down, but I was okay.
It was really cold, so I took a coffee after the running.

And I had an appointment private swim lesson in the afternoon.
I learned butterfly and breast from junior olympic competitor...
The motion of his butterfly was really quick... I can't...


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Bike ride at countryside

3/1/2014
Bike 71.6km2:26


It exceeded 50 degrees! Snow is gone! So I rode bike at country side.
This course is almost flat and countryside, so we can ride almost all by TT form!
But my next Ironman is Lake Placid in July. It has hill climb bike course. So this course isn't good for me...

The picture is Plesant Cafe at Plesant Plain, a small village in Ohio.
It's village Christian school, but it looks like to open a cafe on weekend.

The village is very quiet and I guess it's one of American old style cafe.
But we can see a bunch of car there on weekend... I wanna go there at least one time, if possible with cute lady...


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spinning and swim

2/27/2014 No training
Caused by fatigue...

2/28/2014
Spinning 26.2km1:02
Swim free style, side kick 300yd0:15

I was done 1 hour spinning and swimming for relax at Blue Ash YMCA.
Actually, Blue Ash YMCA is out of the route for commuting, and monthly fee is about 3 times of LA fitness!
So it's little bit inconvenient for me.
But YMCA has 2 indoor pool (but both of them are yard pool...), 1 outdoor pool (I guess it's olympic pool...), and spinning with SPD pedal.
They're good for triathletes.
And the most important thing is that YMCA is our crazy guy's headquarter!

The picture is today's lunch at Benihana.

Benihana is the founder of "hibachi" in the US.
Americans speaks of grilled cuisine on the hot plate as "hibachi".
As you know, the true meaning of "hibachi" is a kind of traditional stove in Japan. But I don't know the reason why Americans speaks of the cuisine as "hibachi"...
And also most of Americans can't make truly pronunciation of "hi", so they say "habachi"...


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Treadmill and swim for relaxing...

2/26/2014
Treadmill 9.8km0:52
Swim free style, brest, butterfly 300yd0:10

Treadmill and swim at LA fitness Symmes.
Their treadmill are made in Lifetime fitness which famous for the products for serious atheletes.
So I tryed to run by maximum speed, but unfortunately I couldn't catch up at 10.5mph! And stopped it...
I apologize my poor running ability...

Swim was just for relaxing after the running, not for practice...

The picture is display for Easter at Kroger.
I think rabbit isn't born from an egg... What's your idea???


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