Man. This is inspiring. When we're all dead and gone, they'll be singing ballads about the Japanese marathoner who left everything he had, every time, every WEEK, on the race course.
Man. This is inspiring. When we're all dead and gone, they'll be singing ballads about the Japanese marathoner who left everything he had, every time, every WEEK, on the race course.
Here's an hour's worth. You can skip ahead and dial in at the 1:50 point.....The time is in the upper right corner......
Running is poetry in motion. I saw with every stride he took that he was bleeding but fighting through. Reminds me of Paula Radcliffe. Happy for the guy :D
He didn't chase them down. They pulled away from him.
Fluffie the Wonder Rat wrote:
He didn't chase them down. They pulled away from him.
Not 2nd place. About same gap at the end.
Dude looks like he's turning himself inside out to try to catch those 2 Africans. Meanwhile, the 2 Africans looks like they're just jogging and strolling. Maybe they're pushing it hard but just making it look easy, but it looks like completely different effort levels. I wonder what the WR would be if some Africans turned themselves inside out like Kawauchi does.
sayer of dude wrote:
Dude looks like he's turning himself inside out to try to catch those 2 Africans. Meanwhile, the 2 Africans looks like they're just jogging and strolling. Maybe they're pushing it hard but just making it look easy, but it looks like completely different effort levels. I wonder what the WR would be if some Africans turned themselves inside out like Kawauchi does.
2:09
Kawauchi is BACK BABY! But was he RELAXED? It sure doesn't look like it.
I didn't have the patience -- did he actually pass anybody in that last 10 minutes?
Fluffie the Wonder Rat wrote:
He didn't chase them down. They pulled away from him.
He chased them for miles, hardly giving an inch. At 35K, he was 15 seconds behind them. At the finish, he was 14 seconds behind Makau and 23 seconds behind Tsegay. So "they" didn't actually pull away from him. But yes, he did end up losing to the leader by an amount equal to less than one second per mile.
He certainly chased them down the stretch.
Brett Larner:
"Kawauchi injured his right calf while training on Nov. 12. In his final tuneup race for Fukuoka, the Nov. 20 Ageo City Half Marathon, he could do nothing more than a slow jogging pace. "I don't know what I can do in Fukuoka," he said. "How far can you go on limited training? It will be very tough."
He should miss more races and get enhanced recovery
Fantastic. Thanks for the video!
That dude that went from 2:17 to 2:10 in one race is almost as inspiring. He ran out of his mind.