After having a quick look at my blog entries for this year's Osaka Marathon 2014 review, it is time to take a quick visual timeline of how the race medal evolved from a simple metallic surface to its current rainbow medal ^__^

Osaka Marathon 2011 Finisher Medal (1st edition)

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I used the chance to explore around the Osaka Castle for my second visit since I only covered a small portion of Osaka Castle in November 2013 with a group tour. This time, I was able to cover at least 70% of the area and realized how great Osaka Castle area is great for an outdoor run since it is big, scenic with lots to see and gardens to explore ( Read more... )

When I first turned up for the race expo at Osaka INTEX on 24 October 2014 (Friday) near Cosmosquare station), there were direction marshals positioned at various points to guide runners to reach Osaka INTEX correctly. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I saw them and the walk was about 1km+ to the actual Osaka INTEX. Race Expo venue was a very ( Read more... )

After the race registration was done, air ticket and hotel had to be booked so that I could have a comfortable journey and stay in Osaka. The initial plan was to book Hotel Kikuei (菊栄) with my friends but realizing after that they were only coming to Osaka on Thursday night and seeking opinion from my Osaka native friend, I have decided to book APA ( Read more... )

Apologies for not updating the blog for a few weeks due to work and I am having a "long weekend" here (Monday is an off day for me tomorrow). As stated in today's blog post, it will be on my first overseas cum comeback full marathon in Japan (Osaka) in this 26 October 2014 (Sunday). Definitely feeling more excited than usual and I will do my best ( Read more... )

Did the 10km event which was one week ago and decided to blog about it. I did the previous year edition (see the summary of race description and workout records at http://nws-tbz.livejournal.com/2013/09/08/Read more... )

From 21 to 25 July 2014, I had overseas work and i didn't get to run as much as I will like to do so.
Even so,I managed to clocked 3 night gym workouts in the hotel I stayed in and it felt good! Photo of the hotel gym is as below:

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Workout summary for Week 10 from 3 to 9 March 2014 as follows ( Read more... )

Just finished my 5 days of army in camp training and indeed a tiring session. Great to catch up with my army buddies and to know that they are doing well in their civilian lives ( Read more... )

Finally reached Taipei around 3pm plus and now doing a quick blog entry here before I get super busy for these few days until Friday =( Of course until my boss comes at Wednesday night, it ( Read more... )