Yes! I did it!

I woke up 4:00 o'clock and run. It's good day today!


The moon before the dawn with trees

Today's training: 15km jog
Monthly mileage for February:217km

Blank

I could run after a long interval(4days blank).
Tomorrow I will not be able to run at night so I promise I'll run in the morning!
Perhaps? Maybe? I'm afraid not.... I believe "tomorrow"!

Today's training: 10km run
Monthly mileage for February: 202km

The Piano came home!

The older daughter is very interested in playing the piano. Till today she has practiced with a keyboard. Finally the piano came home, that my wife used to play when she lived at her parents' home.


She made the piano renewed(I don't know about it much).

First trail run in this year! I love trail run!

My left thigh has been getting better but isn't completely healed, so I gave up going skiing and decided to go trail running, although it is a little early to go trail running because of cold and snow.
From Mt.Takao to Mt.Jinba there were too many people but from Mt.Jinba to Mt.Ichimichi there were few hiker, so I could enjoy calm trail run.
Today I heard twitters of trees! At first I thought them twitters of birds, but I realized that so many trees creaked and made sounds like twitters!!


We have to keep mountains clean! Let's clean up


A lot of snow! Downslope was like skiing!


Of course I slipped many times.


Goal was 瀬音の湯 beside the Akikawa valley.


Today's training: about 30km trail run(JR高尾ー高尾山ー陣馬山ー醍醐丸ー市道山ー瀬音の湯)
Monthly mileage for February: 192km

Everyone has his own thought

Yesterday I had a drink with old friends of the medical class. I was surprised to hear that two of five will go abroad and live there for whole lives in the future! They said it was hard to live in Japan(Tokyo) because of the prices,an environment for children and so on. Of course I don't agree that but they said there was a better world than Japan...
As for me, the world(Tokyo) that now I live in is the best one and I'm really having a nice time,even if it is a small world.


Today's training: off

Stuck patients

I will have to write about "stuck patients in ambulances", but today I don't have the energy to write about that....

Today's training: 15km jog & 5km run
Monthly mileage for February: 182km

Storm hit her

My older daughter and I went skiing on Tanbara.Perhaps this was the last ski of this season, so we went out cheerily.
BBBut!!! She was knocked down at first ski lift riding because of the cold!!!
It was stormy, snowy and terriblly cold(the temperture was -8℃!! ).
She was just crying and crying so we returned home soon.

I'm sorry I couldn't take a photo of "storm"

Just after this shot, the storm hit her and she began to cry!

I felt imperfect combustion after returning home, so I went runnning to relieve my feeling.

Today's training: 27km jog
Monthly mileage for February: 162km

Exhibition

In the afternoon we went to see a exhibition in my daughter's elementary school. All students in the school made each works and displayed them.


Nowadays children have been getting poorer at handwork "using their fingers", because everything is more convenient and we have only to push by one finger.
But today I could see many wonderful works in the exhibition and was impressed by their talents!

Today's training: 21km jog
Monthly mileage for February: 135km

Worlds

Of course there is only one world, but we have many worlds in ourselves in our minds. We are living in each world in the same time ,so life will have many sorts of variations.
I will be Papa, work , run, study and experience a lot of things as much as possible!

Today's training: .............off?

Monster

In Japanese there is a Japanese-English word, Monster Patient. In English they say it Helicopter patient. I will make a presentation about the Monster Patients. There are many " Monster" , monster parent, monster mother and so on. Today I read "Monster mother" ,I'm the center of the world! http://www.amazon.co.jp/

Today's training: 21km run
Monthly mileage for February: 114km

What to write?(12nd February)

I have a lot of things that I want to write here!
But I will write nothing today, just keep going after this too!

Yesterday's training: 15km jog
Monthly mileage for February: 93km

Ski in Okutone

It snowed five times in Tokyo in this season,much more than last year.
And snow took me to the mountains!
Although it was three consecutive holidays, there were few people on the slope if you could arrive before the sunrise. I skied for about three hours to my heart's content.
Okutone in Minakami: a very small ski area but the slope is nice!

In the afternoon we played in the near park. Maybe this was the last snow in Tokyo?
Although three consecutive holidays, there was none except us! Perhaps they have gone to Onsen or had an outing.

Today's training: ski & 15km jog
Monthly mileage for February: 78km

ウルバニ医師

I attended a meeting in Urawa. There were many presentation and most impressive one was that made by NHK producer about "Dr.Urubani"(sorry but I don't know the exact spelling). He struggled against SARS and at last he also died of SARS .
http://www.nhk-book.co.jp/shop/main.jsp?trxID=0130&webCode=00808872004

Today's training: brain training?

run for what?

run for what?
Of course I can't find the best answer.
eat for what? work for what? play for what?
And live for what?
...... maybe many answers, so life is exciting!
While running in the daytime I can enjoy the scenery that I can see, but at night there are few things I can look out over, so I have more chance to think about everything.


Today's training: 15km jog& slow run?
Monthly mileage for February: 63km

Tama-ko

After night duty I always wonder whether I go to sleep or go running. Today it was so fine that my running motive overcame my sleepiness.


You can see a marvelous sun-set from this point!


Sayama-ko over there


There was still much snow around Tama-ko.

Today's training: 27km jog
Monthly mileage for February: 48km

morning run

I have a lot of things to do for preparing for a presentation, so I ran in the morning. There is still much snow,exactly ice. Watch out your steps!

Today's training: 10km
Monthly mileage for February: 21km

Snow is falling, we are playing!

After taking a nap, we played in the snow.
Let's make a snow man!!

My daughters and their friend in the neighborhood

Finished!! Wish peace for everyone!!

Snow is falling, I am running!

Today's course was Higashi"Murayama" central park.Running in the snow is a good training for flat method running, I think, because you have to put your each foot flat not to slip.

Green Road in the snow


exactly Kantubaki, "Camellia sasanqua"

Today's training: 11km jog
Monthly mileage for February: 11km

Mamemaki on Setubun

I couldn't have a time to run. I had to play "mamemaki" today because I'll be on night duty tomorrow. We usually play "mamemaki" on 2nd February which we call "Setubun".


Setsubun originally means " the day before the calendric beginning of each season" , but now it especially means " the day before the calendric beginning of spring, usually February third".



　On this day, special ceremonies are held in shrines or homes in order to drive away evil spirits and bring in good fortune.
In the ceremonies, People scatter beans and eat the same number of the beans as their age. People scatter beans while shouting " Oni-ha soto, Fuku-ha uchi." ( Evil out, happiness in ).


They are "Angels" but sometimes become "Oni".