Tokyo is the most impeccably clean city I have ever visited. I was in Japan about 15 years ago for a business trip and I remember everything being neat and tidy but not like this. I went out of my way to find fault in Japanese discipline, Japanese hospitality, Japanese punctuality, Japanese cleanliness. I failed […]
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4 days to Tokyo Marathon 2017

Here we go… After 18 weeks of solid training, 3 pretty solid races (5k, 10k, half-marathon), umpteen training sessions including long runs of 20+ miles, temp runs, intervals, fartleks, strides, etc. etc. I am on the flight from LAX to Narita. The Phoenix-LAX flight was delayed giving me a slight scare that I will miss […]