Toyama Limpid Stream Marathon RaceiThe 16th)

Date: Sunday, May 19, 2019 Weather: Fine

Location: Toyama City, Toyama Pref.


Details of Race:

Race	Full	Number of Runners	800	*
	**		**	*
	Entry Fee		Yen 5,000
Contact	Secretariat of Toyama Limpid Stream Marathon Race Tel: 076-491-8118
Gift	Running Socks
Free Service	Sports Drink, Foods
Remark	Time Limit: 7 hours

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Running Socks


Records

5 km	33 minutes
10 km	1 hour 05 minutes
15 km	1 hour 41 minutes
20 km	2 hours 14 minutes
Middle point	2 hours 22 minutes
25 km	2 hours 50 minutes
30 km	3 hours 28 minutes
35 km	4 hours 09 minutes
40 km	4 hours 56 minutes
Finish	5 hours 17 minutes

Impression

Sunday, May 19

• After finishing the work in the morning, I got on the "Hakutaka" of Hokuriku Super-express train to be left at 13:50 from Ohmiya Station.
• I saw a lot of foreign tourists in the train. The foreign couples sitting next to my seat were eating fried bean curds stuffed with boiled rice and rice balls with chopsticks.
• I drank Japanese sake in the train after a long interval and was drunken a little bit. The train reached Toyama Station just before 16:00.
• I bought a Trout Sushi at the station for dinner. I found the price increased from Yen 1, 400 to Yen 1,500. Anyway, first, I checked in the hotel.
• Then I went to the convenient store to buy the food. Coming back to the hotel, I ate Trout Sushi drinking red wine. As soon as I finished eating, I felt asleep and went to bed.
• Next morning, I got up at 5:00. It was fine outside. According to weather forecast, it would be fine all day and the maximum temperature would reach to 25 degrees Centigrade. It seemed to be hot.
• After eating rice balls, I checked out the hotel at 6:45. I went to the station to get on the shuttle bus. I could catch up with the first bus to the marathon site.
• It took almost 20 minutes to reach the marathon site located on the bank of the branch of Jintsu River. I could clearly see Mt. Tsurugi and Mt. Tateyama covered with snow far away.
• After registration, I changed wears in the tent. The race would start at 9:00. I had spare time of more than one and half hours. I did not know what to do with my time.
• The race was only full-marathon. By the way, I did not know the details of race and I found that the runners had to go around 14-km course three times to complete the race. To tell the truth, the go-around race was not desirable for me. It was very careless of me to find that I had to run 14-km course three times on the marathon day. But I had seconf thought three rounds might be acceptable for me.
• The number of runners was less than 800. It was not so large. More than half runners came from other than Toyama Pref.
• After typical opening ceremony, the race started at 9:00. I started from the tail end. The loss time was one minute.
• First, runners ran the winding golf cart trail in the small golf course. (Golf course was closed.) Then the course became the narrow path on the bank with a row of cherry trees to the first turn-around point.
• Returning from the turn-around point, runners continued to run on the bank to the broad bank road alongside Jintu River.
• The broad bank road extended to the second turn-around point (9km-point). I could see the bright blue flow of Jintu River.
• I could also see the planes left/arrived from Toyama Airport over Jintu River from the second turn-around point.
• At the second turn-around point, a rubber ring was given to the runners to prove that the runners surely passed the point.
• The distance from the second turn-around point to the original stat point was 5 km.
• The temperature gradually rose, however, cool wind was blowing and thus I did not felt hot when running against the wind, but I felt hot when running under wind-wing situation
• I could manage to complete the first round. Soon I reached 20 km point and felt a little bit tired, but continued to run.
• I completed the second round and started to run the third round. However, the temperature further rose. Actually I was getting disgusted to run one more 14 km distance of the same course.
• But I was forced to continue to run. I finally reached 30 km point, but the running speed drastically slowed down. Although the speed slowed down, I tried not to walk.
• I could reach the second turn-around point three times. I could get three rubber rings. However, I still had to run 5 km to the finish.
• I ran very slowly. The speed was almost the same as that of walking. I reached the 40 km point, but I felt the last 2 km was so long!
• The food at the aid station was abundant. I could get bread, steamed bean-jam bun, banana, orange, lemon, water melon, etc., etc. Trout Sushi was also served.
• Owing to hotness, my appetite was getting lost and I always felt thirsty. I drank heavily at each aid station and my stomach was filled with water.
• Just before 40 km point (?), I was passed by old man wearing a piece of cloth indicating "81 years old: completed 140 and more full marathon races!" To my regret, I could not catch up with him.
• To finish, I had to run up small slope, but I could not. I was forced to walk to the finish.
• Anyway, I could complete the race, but the finish time was 5 hours 17 minutes. I could not finish within 5 hours. By the way, time limit of this race was 7 hours.
• A lot of runners already completed the race and thus the finish point was calm and quiet.
• After the race, Udon noodle was served to the runners. I was tired and lost my appetite, but tried to eat. I could not eat all noodles.
• After changing wears, I got on the shuttle bus bound for Toyama Station at 15:00. It took 40 minutes to reach the station.
• I thought I could catch the train between 16:00 and 17:00; however, all reserved seats were occupied.
• I finally got the sea of "Kagayaki" to be left at 17:07. But I was forced to wait more than one and half hours at the station.
• The train reached Ohmiya Station at 18:54. I arrived in Higashi-kurume around 20:15. I got home at 20:30.
• It was hard for me to complete the race this time again. I lately always think I am getting old. Anyway, I cannot compete with 81 years old runners!!

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