Track And Field Competition in Kanto, 2011

Rina runs right side on the track. Her grandpa cheers her up loud.

Rina went to Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium in Tokyo to attend the track and field competition in Kanto.

Kanto includes Tokyo and six prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa.

The population is said to amount approximately one third of the total population of Japan.


Rina was nominated from Tochigi prefecture as an athlete of 800-meter-run and 1,500-meter-run this time.

Rina’s competitors were so strong that she finished XXth out of  YY members.
XX and YY are secret numbers withheld by Rina’s earnest request.

Anyway, she had a wonderful experience. Congrats. Rina.

Track and Field Competition

I went to see a prefectural high school track and field competition a couple weeks ago.
My younger daughter 16-year-old Rina took part in 1,500m race of the competition. She could barely join the sixteen-member-finalists of the race. Then she ran through the goal line as 16th.

She has been a member of track and field club since she was a junior high student.
Yes, she keeps practicing long distance running over five years.
But, she couldn’t beat her own record that she got when she was 13 years old.

Like many women athletes, she seems to be struggling against becoming rich female body.

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.