{"id":4777,"date":"2010-02-28T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2024-10-17T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T19:56:49","slug":"tokyo-marathon-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/tokyo-marathon-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Marathon 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091726trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091726trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cheering for tokyo marathon 2010 runners\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091726trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091726trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091726trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day was cold. The day was <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/rain\/>wet<\/a>. But it is difficult to pass up a marathon running through town even in the most adverse conditions. So I got on the Tokyo Metro for a couple of stops to arrive at Iidabashi (\u98ef\u7530\u6a4b) to view the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091710trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091710trim-774x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wheelchair marathon tokyo japan\" width=\"774\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091710trim-774x800.jpg 774w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091710trim-241x250.jpg 241w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091710trim.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091949trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091949trim-800x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"iidabashi station wheelchair racers rainy marathon\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091949trim-800x467.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091949trim-250x146.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28091949trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got a position in the front row right next to a curve. I figured it would be a great spot to take pictures as I thought runners would be coming from my right before turning the corner. Unfortunately, my sense of direction got reversed by coming out a station exit I was unfamiliar with and runners actually came from my left which meant I couldn&#8217;t see them until a split second before they were past me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28092615trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28092615trim-800x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"top marathon runners tokyo 2010\" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28092615trim-800x633.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28092615trim-250x197.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28092615trim.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The male winner was a Japanese man, Fujiwara Masakazu (\u85e4\u539f\u6b63\u548c), for the first time in the Tokyo Marathon&#8217;s short, 4-year history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28093245trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28093245trim-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"japanese marathon runners in the rain\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28093245trim-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28093245trim-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/28093245trim.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I could no longer feel my feet (I stepped in a deep puddle early on) or hands (I had an umbrella in one hand and my camera in the other) I decided it was time to go home where I watched the last hours of the race on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day was cold. 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I got a position in the front row [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[176,236,30,265,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30294,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/30294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}