sunday ekiden

sunday ended up being a nice day. the weather was perfect. no wind. not too frigid. just right. i ended up running 3.7 km. 17 minutes. not too fast. not too slow. decent considering the lack of speed training. i was the first runner and then i had a lot of time to wait for my team to finish. when we finished, we got 2 sports drinks, 2 ichigo mochis (mochi covered strawberries) and a bento. yay for free stuff!

now i have to focus on the next race. march 22. tokyo. training is going well despite the recent rainy weather. hopefully saturday will be good weather for me to get my 18 miler in.

saturday i cooked crepes for hiro and i. then we went swimming and ran some errands. we found a really cute cafe and had lunch! so great. the night ended with a birthday party for a few friends.

this week is going by pretty slow so far, but i cant believe its already the last week of february. today i had a lot of trial lessons for new students. they went pretty well. i think. i hope we can get a lot of students this year. but i dont know if/how that will happen.

well i am off to bed. tomorrow i'm getting up early to do pilates, then i am meeting the nozao's for coffee at starbucks. should be a nice time. i enjoy spending time with them!