Autumn Track and Field Competition

My mother-in-law visited Utsunomiya from Tokyo last Friday to watch my daughter's track and field races.
I took a day off on Friday and went to the Utsnomiya Municipal Track and Field Stadium with her and my wife.
The result was same as the race in last July: Rina was a runner-up and Ms. Kobayashi was the winner in both 800-meter-race and 1,500-meter-race.
Rina finished the race less than one second behind Ms. Kobayashi. It seemed difficult for Rina to beat her.

How can she beat Ms. Kobayashi?
How does Rina train herself?
What's the best practice to beat her?

Does anyone know?

After the competition, elder daughter Emi joined us and we went to Tachibanaya restaurant that was famous for eel’s dishes in Utsunomiya. We had really wonderful dinner there.

Tennis Tournament in Mohka

I participated in a doubles tennis tournament with Mr. Nakagawa even I have been suffering from a terrible backache since two weeks ago. Needless to say, the result of the tournament was very bad. I felt very sorry to Mr. Nakagawa for my bad physical condition. (:<) What was worse, I carelessly forgot to bring my digital camera with me. I have never forgotten bringing my camera to any tennis tournament before. So, I took a few pictures using a cell phone. The quality of the pictures is not good at all.

I brought back a colored leave from the tennis court and took a picture at the balcony of my home not with a cell phone but a digital camera. Autumn is a really artist, isn’t it. (^^)

Autumn Flavor, Delicious Pears

Hot summer is going. It’s cooler this week than that of the last week in Utsunomiya.
Today is a Japanese national holiday of Respect-for-the-Aged Day and the last day of the three-day-holiday.
We should show respects to the aged on this holiday. But I could do nothing to the aged, on the contrary, received presents from my mother living in Shimane.
The presents are autumn flavor, delicious pears.

Except for having given a thanks-call to my mother, I have nothing special to do these holidays. I just walked around nearby park, did web surfing, making a bunny video and uploaded it on YouTube site. If you have time, please watch it.



When our daughters were elementary school girls, we went to many places together to enjoy driving, hiking and sometimes camping in autumn. But, now, they have their own things to do: track and field training at junior high school and drama practicing at senior high school are the things they do on holidays recently.

Kids grow very quickly not only their height and weight but also their mind.
Sometime, parents feel lonely about it.

Annual Tennis Tournament

The first Saturday of September has come yesterday: it's the day of a local tennis tournament in the area of my company. I had asked my colleagues to take part in the annual tournament and five brave colleagues joined my team.
We won the tournament last year but, to our regret, could not this year.
We were defeated at the preliminary league.

They prepared for first league losers to make a consolation tournament.
So, we took part in the consolation tournament. Then we won the tournament. We got no trophy but little prize.
We vowed to win the next year’s tournament.
Anyway, I enjoyed playing tennis very much on wonderful Saturday.
:-)