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".

Tamagawa-jyousui

I hate wind,cold,sleepiness,hunger and staying still!

Kodaira-triangle is one of my favorite courses

Have you known there is a waterfall in Tamagawa-jyousui!

You can find many kinds of birds on Tamagawa-jyousui and on Nobidome-yousui.
This is a "Kamo" ,drake.

This is a ? .

This is a ??? .
Today's training: 21km slow jog
Monthly mileage for January: 185km

Snow Board

I like ski better than snow board, but I have my rule that I do snow board once a year so in this time I enjoyed snow board.

By the way, it'll be on night duty tomorrow so I'll restart my training from the day after tomorrow.

We stayed at senkyou"仙郷" in Oigami-onsen.

It was spectacular ice needles.

We enjoyed Onsen as well as snow board.

off

The Working Week has finished!! And from tomorrow ten members of critical care staffs including me will go skiing for two days. So off-days will continue... no problem... What kind of alchohol should I take???

Gakkyuu-heisa?

At the class of my older daughter Influenza is prevalent and many classmates was absent from school, so it was temporary closing of classes from today. And my wife has caught a cold from yesterday!! So today we'll drink Amazake not beer.

Today's training: off

Running in a cold wind

It was fine but very windy. A cold wind took my motive for running, but finally I could went runnning because of .........the BEER I could drink after running.
Ordinary a wind gives a harder time to runners than a rain, but sometimes the wind sounds like cheering in stead of getting in the way!

Today's training: 20km slow jog(still pain in left thigh...)
Monthly mileage for January: 164km

Snow in Tokyo again

In this time it's snowing more than before.
Here are scenery of snow in Kodaira from our hospital.




I'm on night duty today, so it's off today.

Off

In this week and the next week our ICU staffs go skiing separately. I belong to the second group, so in this week I have to work harder than usual as one of staffs staying in the hospital.


The ryokan(Japanese style hotel) the first group stay is one of the best hotel I have ever been. "仙仁温泉　岩の湯"

today's training: off

Ski in Hakkaisan

I woke up 4:00 o'clock and went skiing with my hospital staff. The Hakkaisan ski area is in Muikamachi of Niigata Pref. This area is famous for it's steep slope and irregular slope which they don't make even, so you can enjoy the "non-smooth slope".
Off course I have forgotten my pain of the left thigh???


In this area there are a rope way on which 81 people can ride, and you can reach the top fast.


Today's training: ski

A peaceful day

It's an off day today. My daughters and I went to Koganei Park. There are many kinds of slides,swings,mazes made of woods and so on.

The Green Road leads to Koganei Park.


You can feel the changes of the seasons in this park.


..........One daughter.......

..........Two daughters.......

Today's training: off

I love Gyouza!

I jogged slowly again. Although the left thigh has been getting better, there are still pain. Today's goal(the turn point) was Higashiyamato Central Park.


This is the best gyouza in Japan!!"Shinmikaku" I belive firmly...


The sauce "Tare" is very important point. Plenty of crushed garic is essential,but you can't have a talk with anyone at close range on the next day!!

Today's training: 10km slow jog
Monthly mileage for January: 144km

Snow in Tokyo

Last night it snowed first in this season in Tokyo. I feel excited a little when it snows even I have gotten older.
There was still pain in my thigh so I jogged very slowly.

Today's training: 10km slow jog
Monthly mileage for January: 134km

.........

After night duty I went jogging but couldn't run as I like.
To tell the truth, I got little injured again....... When I was skiing in Minakami I tried to attack the irregular slope and there I got my left thigh inside stretched too much! I'm afraid I can't run for a while....

Today's training: 12km slow jog
Monthly mileage for January: 124km

Ski in Minakami

From 12nd to 14th we went Minakami with our grandparents. We enjoyed skiing,sledging and snow itself.


I hope my daughters become to love snow!!



"Neko bus" made with snow


At night we drunk beer! I think this is one of the best beer I have known.

run in the cold rain

Yesterday we drunk much beer and syoutyu and had a good time, so today I have to wash out alchohol from my body. Running in the cold rain can make me cool down and
let me in the good condition.

Today's training: 10km jog
Monthly mileage for January: 112km

Yes! I did it,...kind of

In the morning I run and have a speed training;500m×1,1000m×2
But as I thought I hate it....

Today's training: 8km jog&run
Monthly mileage for January: 102km

I'm just running.

When will I start the speed training like interval or pace running?
Mmmmm..... Somethimes perhaps.... I hate the speed training.

Today's training: 16km jog
Monthly mileage for January: 94km

What are you thinking about while running?

I used to run to think about nothing at all,that is to say, run to forget all thing about work, duty, some human relations, and so on. I can make my head empty while running!
Nowadays partially the same thing can be said, but in addition I'm running to think about something fun.
Go forward and keep running!


What is this winter scenery? Answer: ice needles

Today's training: 21km jog & run
Monthly mileage for January: 78km

triage again

On this weekend,Saturday, I will make a lecture about disaster medicine and triage at Higashikurume-shi. It's a lecture for the public not for the medical staff, so I have to remake the lecture which I made last year.

In the evening my hunger and tiredness beat my motive for running.

Today's training: 6km run(2km max speed) in the morning
Monthly mileage for January: 57km

LSD along Tamagawa-Jyosui

The New Years Days have passed in no time. And ordinary life began again, but I belive there will be something new in the new year!

A Happy New Year's world made by my daughter

Today it was very fine and the best day for running. I could overcome the sleepiness and go for a jog. Today's course is the Kodaira Triangle which is consist of Green Road, Tamagawa-Jyousui and Nobidome-Yousui.


there are still miscellaneous small trees and pleasant path


Tamagawa-jyousui is very important for the citizens in Tokyo


Tamagawa-Jyosui-station is beside the Tamagawa-Jyousui

Today's training: 21km jog
Monthly mileage for January: 51km

Make up my mind.....

About one month has passed after I got injury and nowadays I can run as I like.
So the time has come to do "pace running" and "interval training" to prepare for the full marathon. But these hard training are the last one that I want to do.....
I will do it from next week!

one scene of the Green Road

Today's training: 15km slow jog
Monthly mileage for January: 30km

First run

After having a nice time with Prof. S’s family, we have returned to Tokyo just now.
In Yatugatake we enjoyed skiing(sledging), drinking and watching many deers!
And today is the first day of this year to run.


It's a nice cottage in the nice place!


drank much beer in the KOTATU


My daughters like sledging better than skiing.


They say the number of deers are increasing year by year.

Today's training: 15km jog & run
Monthly mileage for January: 15km

A Happy New Year

A Happy New Year and I wish you good luck in this year.


My family and I will start soon for Yatugatake where my superior has a cottage.
I will ski and drink a plenty of beer like last year.

Here is My target in this year!
1: 25th July, Mt. Fuji climbing race 3:30 (15min shorter than last year)
2: 30th March, Sakura Kenko marathon 3:00(perhaps this is the first and last full marathon. I don’t like full marathon)
3: on Octorber, Japan Mountaineering race 10:00(15min shorter than last year)

And an addion
18th May, Nobeyama Ultra marathon100km:While running, enjoy as much as possible!!

LSD in Sayamako

I feel tired when I woke up, but today was the last day of this year I could run.(I'm on the night duty tomorrow.) I decided that my last training menu was LSD and run through my favorite course "Hanakoganei-Tamako-Sayamako"
It was so called "Hashiri-Osame"?


In this year there were too many things that I never expected.
I appreciate all what I was given. And....


I regret a lot of my failure and many things that I did on my way.
Very sorry and please go aroud with me in the next year too.

Today's　training: 38km LSD
Monthly mileage for December 150km

ski

I woke up at 4:00 and went skiing with my staff to Kandatu where we can do Sunrise skiing. From 7:00 to 11:30 we skied very hardly so I had some muscle pain in both thighs.

Now I am writing New Year's Greetings. It takes much time...getting sleepy...

Today's　training: ski & 6km jog
Monthly mileage for December 112km

runner

At last I could "run" again, not jog.
When I was running as a kind of pace run,one runner talked to me while waiting a signal to change. Of course we have never spoken with each other, but have seen many times while running. He was belonged to Tama Racing Circle.

Today's　training: 15km run
Monthly mileage for December 106km

got drunk

In yesterday's farewell party we drunk much of beer and wine, I was still sick today. I promise again I'll not drink a few days?


Yesterday's　training: 8km jog
Monthly mileage for December 91km

Rehabilitation is going

I decided to run as LSD but couldn't run more than 16km.
My body is still heavier and stamina is weaker than before so it's necessary to get rehabilitation. (And there was a muscle pain of yesterday's skiing.)

Christmas Eve with Santa Rabbit

Today's training: 16km jogging
Monthly mileage for December: 83km

ski

We(my older daughter and I) went skiing for the first time in this year.Although it was raining in the morning, it was getting fine at noon. This year there is much snow than last year,so we can enjoy skiing much more in this year.



After going skiing, I let the hematoma punctured so the tension of the skin got much looser.

Today's training: skiing?

clean up

Soon New Year's Eve will come. Today is "the clean up day".
Although a house cleaning is one of the tiresome thing but if we regard it as a kind of training, it become a pleasant work.

Today's training: 6km run and house cleaning!
Monthly mileage for December: 67km

Yes! I run today!

I was very thanksful that I could run.
But, I felt me heavier than I used to be. My body has changed.
Weight: 54kg →58kg
Waist : 70cm →78cm
I'm afraid it will take a long time to be able to run as before.

Today's training: 10km jog
Monthly mileage for December 61km

blue sky and blue hip

Maybe I'm a champion of the most bluish hip in Japan!
It was fine today and the blue sky tempted me to run. The time has come when I could run again!!!

my memorial shot(sorry again for ugly photo)

Today's training: 6km jog(almost walking)

ganbattenai-papa

I was off for 9days. I'm afraid I can't run for more few days. My subcutaneous hemorrhage is descending and now reached to the right thigh. Pain is getting better but still here and there.]
Anyway I have to make a lecture about Triage on this Friday and have not yet finished the preparation. So in either case I have no time to run.

One point lecture" triage"
Triage is the process of rapidly and accurately evaluating patients to determine the extent of their injuries and the appropriate level of medical care required.
Priority is placed on providing care to victims most likely to survive; victims with such severe injuries that they are unlikely to survive are given low priority because they consume a disproportionate share of resources.
The most popular method is START(Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment).
START is an assessment of ambulation, respiration, perfusion, and mental status in a stepwise fashion to determine which victims require immediate transport for definitive care. START is easy to apply and designed for mass casualty incidents when time for comprehensive evaluation is nonexistent.

The system uses color-coded tags to identify patients and to designate their triage category: black is dead, red is critical, yellow is serious, green is not serious.


Anyway I want to run again.....

reading

I couldn't begin to run. Maybe it takes about 10 days to run again.
In spite of running,I read a book"博士の愛した数式". It was a one of best seller books and a few yeas ago a movie was made. It's worth reading it and I will try to see the movie.

Hematoma

From today I began to be able to work. I have to apologize to my hospital staffs. Very sorry for my making a mess....
My condition was getting better and better but on the other hand the hematoma on my back was getting bigger and bigger.

sorry for unpleasant photo

"Off" day continues.

ADL almost full

I was absent from job for two days. Because I was getting better and could walk around, my motive for running come out again. I have just applied to the Asahi Sakura Kenko Marathon(42.195km) held on 30th March. My target for this race is "sub three" to finish the race within three hours! But, I wonder when I'll be able to run again....

Off course, off

I'm in my house all day long. With self examination,reflecting on my past conduct.

But,.....I can't give up mountaineering race.

Mitake-san trail run: 15km
monthly mileage for December 45m

Mitake-san Trail run, got injured...

Recently trail run has become popular and there was over 900 entries to this race.

And this race in the last year was the first mountaineering race that I participated. I wanted to see the different "me" from that of last year.
As soon as the start I paced up,and kept high pace. Most of the first half is upslope, and then we dashed the latter downslope. To tell the truth, I had been getting much more confidence in downslope in comparison to last year. I paced up more and passed a few runners!!
In the steep downslope a root of a tree caught my foot, and fell down(just like "dive into the bottom world"). I was hit upper the right edge of pelvis. For a while I couldn't move from there,but shortly I could begin to walk and then jog slowly. Many runners passed me and saying " You fell down? Are you alright?" and I replied "I'm fine,thank you" but in my heart I shouted "never alright,couldn't regret more...butu-butu-butu-butu".I wonder whether I should continue the race or not, but there may be last 3km left so I kept running(jogging) and could reach the goal.

A tragedy came after that. My back pain got worse and worse. The pain was like that of burn or something like electric. Maybe the hematoma became bigger and the mass compressed the nerve. Finally, from the cable car station I couldn't walk any more(couldn't keep standing). The station staff carried me on his back and took me into my car. My wife drove the car and took me to my hospital. No fracture, and great hematoma on my right back. I was laughingstock in my hospital. I learned a new thing. A bruise can make a terrible pain derived from acute nerve compression and skin expansion.


great appreciation to my wife,my daughters,station staffs and hospital staffs.

Mitake-san Trail run, everything is ready!!

Yesterday Mitake-san trail run was held. It was only 15km, so-called a splint mountaineering race. My cold had got well and according the weather forecast it'll be very fine. Best situation for the race (except my short of training...).
After taking the Mitake cable car, we stayed Kuraya.

Although it rained and hailed much the previous night instead of the forecast, I could see the wonderful red sky, a mourning glow while mourning walking.

I will attend the Mitake-San mountaineering race tomorrow and from now go to Mitake and stay there tonight. It'll be fine tomorrow so the race will be pleasant and refreshing.

Running is better than Resting to make your condition good

I have been feeling a little bad in these days. I wonder the bad feeling come from being absent from running for several days rather than having a cold. So I started to run from today.

Today's training: 8km jog&run(6km race pace)
monthly mileage for December 30km

Amazake

Recently I can see ice needles on my way to the hospital. In such a cold day Amazake is the best drink to make yourself warm. You should choose non-sugar Amazake and take much of clustered ginger into it.


Today's training: off .....I have to change myself by tomorrow...

Cold again

Cold is rampant in these days. One of our staffs was absent from job and I felt a little chilly today. I'm afraid I had caught a cold again, but I will deny such a situation. On this month I never catch a cold, never......

Christmas in the restroom of my house

Christmas is coming soon

Christmas is coming soon. This year I can avoid a night duty on Christmas and Eve so I will be able to be a Santa crows!


we decorated our house for Christmas.

Today's training: 14km jog&run(8km in the morning and 6km at night)
monthly mileage for December 24km

The Last month of 2007

At last month my cold hadn't got well clearly. It was a kind of "a chronic cold"? So this month I will care of my health much more, to put it concretely, not to wear too may clothes, to have enough gargle, to keep warm after running and so on.

Christmas season has already come to Shinjyuku.

The illumination was fantastic but it was too crowded.

Today's training: 10km run(in latter part I did some interval training.)
monthly mileage for December 10km