6th Koga Hanamomo Marathon by Eric Lebrasseur

It took me three marathons this Autumn/Winter to finally get a new PB ! Tsukuba 2:59:38 in November, Katsuta 2:59:07 in January and finally today Koga Hanamomo, with 2:57:26 net time which is 1min1s faster than my previous PB at Shizuoka last year in March.

Ahh, it feels so good to know that all the training was not in vain (well, running 42k as fast as one can seems quite a vain activity but this is another story :) ).

Yuki managed to run the 10k in less then 48min with very low mileage training.

We were very lucky with a perfect weather. Not even one time I felt too cold or too hot. No much wind. Lucky, lucky :)

Celine and Yuki, thanks for cheering and for the pictures. Derek, thanks for the group picture and the supplement of motivation. Harrisson, congratulation for you super PB and for your new hairs. Yuichi, see you again at Hasetsune 30k, let's have fun there ! David, it was nice to meet you. Mika your jumbo negative split was cool ;)

Congratulation to all the runners that have completed another marathon, and thanks to the organizers and volunteers.

Now it's trail time !

Album photo here.

Course here.