| Member Since: Jan 15, 2018 Gender: Female Goal Type: Other Personal: Attended Japanese high school and finished in March 2020. Was very lucky to be able to be a member of a very good team of runners at my high school, even though I was injured most of the time and was not able to be much of a contributor. Am currently doing an Engineering internship at a large manufacturer of Automotive transmissions, etc. It is really exciting. In spring of 2021, if COVID-19 has subsided, I am planning to serve an LDS mission, after which I plan to go to college and study Engineering. |
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| | The doctor said if I took it easy, I could start joging on my ankle starting in May, so today I did some very easy jogging.
I jogged 400m, walked 400m, jogged 400m and walked 400m for a total of 800m jogging and 800m walking. Felt good.
I will keep it at this distance for at least this week, and will work on increasing the jogging distances over time.
The track coach told me that the teams last track meet of the year will be at the end of October, and that I could run the 800m if I wanted. He said I could run it at any speed I wanted and that I didn't have to worry about time.
It is good to have something to work toward, but I need to be careful not to push myself too hard too soon.
I think one of the hardest obstacles that I will have is mental. Right now I am constantly afraid that I will do something to break my ankle again.
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| | Last week was a good week of jogging. No pain in my ankle.
I am increasing my distance this week to
600m jogging - 400m walking - 600m jogging - 400m walking
for a total of 2000m.
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| | Today I went to the ITU Yokohama triathlon.
It was so exciting. It was my first time to attend a triathlon race.
It started out with the swim. There were so many people watching the race and I was not able to get to a spot where I could watch the swim well, but I did watch it from a far distance.
Next was the bike portion. I couldn't believe how fast they rode. You could hear the whirling sound of the wheels as they passed by. It gave me goose bumps watching them.
Finally was the running portion. After the bicycle portion, all of the athletes looked so tired. I couldn't imagine them being able to run fast in that condition. Also the temperature was in the 80s. But all of these athletes surprised me. They have so much determination. There was even one runner from France that had a crash in the bike portion, and had blood running down his face during the run, but still kept going. The winner was from Spain and ran 10K in under 30 minutes.
It would be fun to try a triathlon someday, but first I would have to learn to swim fast and to ride a bicycle.
 
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| | This week I have increased my distance to
800m jog - 400m walk - 800m jog - 400m walk
for a total of 2400 m.
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| | Went to a pancake restaurant with my boyfriend.
The pancakes were delicious!!!!
I am attaching photos. I am still learning about how to add photos to my blog, so I hope they appear.
 
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| | I want to add more distance. I haven't had any problems with my ankle with the distance that I am running, but I also don't want to injure my ankle again, so I will try to be paitent and just continue adding distance a little at a time.
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| | Increased my distance by quite a lot today and decreased the walk between jogs. Maybe it was too big of an increase all at once, but since I have had no problems so far with my ankle I was sure I could handle it. I had no pain so I will continue this week with this distance and see how it goes.
1000m jogging - 200m walk - 1000m jogging - 200m walk -1000m jogging -200m walk
total distance = 3600m
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| | Increased my daily distance for this week to:
1200m jogging - 200m walking - 1200m jogging -200m walking - 1200m jogging - 200m walking
Total distance: 4200m
My coach told me to keep doing what I am doing by increasing the distance every week until I get to where I can run 5000m with no walking, and then we will start working on adding a little more speed. I still have a little over 4 months to get ready for running my 800m track race in October.
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| | Today we had a coach from one of the top univeristy Ekiden teams come and talk to us about "core" training and the importance of doing "core" training.
It was very interesting. He explained the importance of having a strong core from a scientific point of view, and how having a strong core can improve running speed by reducing inertia losses during running.
I now have a new desire to strengthen my core. Six pack here I come!
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| | The hydrangea are in bloom now in Japan. They are beautiful. There was this little creature on one flower yesterday that was looking back at me. :)
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