***<\/p>\n This is going to be yet another massive photo album upload with stray comments here and there.\u00a0 It seems like the right way to go.\u00a0 So scroll along and peruse the sights of the Tokyo Marathon — no need to spend too much time on any one image, just let it wash over you.\u00a0 Feel the photos flow through you.\u00a0 Because there’s a lot of themand this is probably a kind of boring post save to me as a memory archive.\u00a0 But that may be true for 99.95% of runkevinrun.com.<\/p>\n Pre-race meetup in the lobby of the Keio Plaza Hotel.\u00a0 We caught up with Felicity and a few of my TravellingFit compatriots.<\/em><\/p>\n Heading to the Start Line.<\/em><\/p>\n And we’re off!<\/em><\/p>\n I chase you, Pickachu!\u00a0 I pass you, Pickachu!<\/p>\n I chase you, Sgt Pepper Paul — it was twenty steps ago, I passed you on the long and winding road….<\/p>\n I<\/em>‘m not sure if this was sushi Nemo or if that was just in my head.\u00a0 Freaked me out either way.<\/p>\n On the road and on the run.<\/em><\/p>\n I think this is the mascot for taxes.<\/p>\n When Steve was on study abroad here in college, he brought me back some of his favorite drink from the area – Pocari Sweat!\u00a0 I never loved it but it always makes me think of him, which was a nice motivation on the road.\u00a0 Drinking it, it’s a sweet, sugar water vibe that once handled has the sticky sensation that somehow you’ve rolled around on the floor of a second run movie theater.<\/p>\n At the finish — the long march to baggage check and the tour bus back to the hotel was easily a mile.\u00a0 While the volunteers were enthusiastic and cheered us on, my fellow runners were like the walking dead — shuffling and silent.\u00a0 It was a weirdly disheartening experience.\u00a0 I was pretty happy with my time — it was no BQ but that was because I tried to stop and shoot some photos that I could digitally add in Godzilla to at a later date.\u00a0 I’m still trying to find a decent monster shot to composite in.<\/p>\n Mom got sent all the wrong ways and I feel awful that she trudged through the streets of Tokyo.\u00a0 But I’m really glad she came.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was cold at the start but not as cold as I thought it would be. In the direct sun, it was downright warm. But any breeze or any shade made it cold enough to cut through whatever layers one had… and though I had gone for running pants I opted for a short sleeve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4813.jpg\")
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