Friday 12 December 2008

Kawaguchiko marathon

A few pictures from the Kawaguchiko trip we did almost two weeks ago















My free ride pass from Fujikyu amusement park













Picture from Dodompa, worlds (or only Japan's) fastest rollercoaster. The word has it that it goes from 0 to 170Kmph in 3 seconds!















The start of the marathon, 7.30 in the morning, 2 degrees air temperature and after a breakfast of 2 onigiri (rice balls)















Fantastic view of Fujisan along most parts of the race















Even if running slow a marathon can be very painful, here glad to be back after spending some 4h15min in the cold but beautiful environment around Kawaguchiko Lake. Next marathon will now be Tokyo marathon in March, but Ulf and me got tickets to full marathon and Maki got a ticket to 10Km race. With 7,5 number of applicants to available tickets in the lottery we are quite fortunate to get a chance to start in the marathon, will be cool to run in the center of Tokyo with more than 30.000 runners.















Last picture in fron of the lake before going home.

2 comments:

Lina said...

Åh, det ser helt underbart ut! Måste, måste, måste verkligen se till att få mig dit nästa år. Bangar nog på Marathon dock, får räcka med halvmarathon tillsammans med Maki-san :)

Åsa said...

Fina bilder! ser sa harligt ut! Vi ar tillbaka igen hos anna och erik i kodaikanal for att fira jul har. MaPa kommerimorgon. Har rest runt och det har varit jattebra men resa med fyra smabarn kraver sin kvinna och sin man. Speciellt med 2 st 3,5 aringar med starka viljor.
Stora kramar till er och god jul!