Hakone Ekiden Road Race

I went to Tokyo to watch Hakone Ekiden, a long-distance relay or a road race, with my daughter Rina and mother-in-law Noriko yesterday and the day before yesterday.

Hakone Ekiden is one of the most popular Ekiden in Japan, which features teams of students from various Japanese universities.

Rina is a great fun of a long-distance road race and also a member of Utsunomiya municipal Ekiden team.

She was so excited to watch the race that even ran with the ekiden runners. I thought that it was good for her to feel the first class runners' running speed by herself.

We all enjoyed watching the live race very much.

I wish all visitors of this blog a happy new year.

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.