Immortalized in Japan

I will now live on in Japan forever and all I had to do was run 2km!
This past weekend I ran in a local 4 x 2km relay race near where I work. Some guys had asked me if I'd join their team and I figured any race practice is good, even if it is only 2000m. The team was sponsored by a local restaurant owner who can be seen in the centre of the picture below (ie the small Japanese man).

Somehow I ended up as the anchor for our relay team, even though I kept insisting that I have not been training for speed at in the past year. This pic is of me starting my leg of the race. I was in third here so I started going hard from the start.

After a tough up hill battle coming to the finish, I ended up making up the 50 seconds we were behind and finished victorious. Naturally, I had to pose like a star coming across the line.


Even the mayor of the town had to get in the photo's with these strange fast running white dudes.

This is the kid of one of the guys on our team. He know's we're number one.



The owner of the restaurant was so happy. He has posted out winner's certificate and team photo where everyone can see!