Livestreaming the Tokyo Quarter Marathon – Take Your Seats

This event is sponsored by Japan Podshow – launching shortly! LIVE STREAMING VIDEO PLAYER If I’m not streaming, the previous live-streamed video will play. (Go to http://www.qik.com/tamegoeswild to see a live-updated map of exactly where I am. There is also a comments tab – click on that and enter your comment – I will read […]

Livestreaming the Marathon hits the headlines

The folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a very popular site focusing on all things Mac, have just posted my story. There’s going to be a lot of eyes to carry on my head. Yikes.

Firing on all cylinders

My running the Tokyo quarter marathon whilst streaming live video seems to have caught people’s attention, with two major US websites now offering to promote it, and another Japan-based media organisation interested in interviewing me tomorrow. I’m raising money for Oxfam Japan. This has all come out of the blue. I think the idea was […]

A new bird feeder

Following on from my last post: having packed my rucksack with Macbook, clothes and shoes for work, water and stuff for my Japanese lesson, I realised it would be daft to try and run like that. Carrying so much weight would not be easy, and would probably leave me with mightily sore shoulders. So, instead, […]

Running across Tokyo to get to work (probably)

Just a quick post tonight, to tell you of my plans for tomorrow morning. After work tonight I visited the ‘citizens’ centre’ just down the road from the office, and asked about local gyms. Apparently there’s a council-run place in Kanda, about 20 mins walk from the office, and about 16km from home. That should […]

The Exercise Project

This morning’s short jog, minus the first section where I was trying to get the GPS on the iPhone to work. Did a restart in the end.Have you tried regular exercise over a prolonged period of time? I think most people probably have. For me though, it’s a first. It’s still early days. The jogging-three-times-a-week […]