Fastest 5k ever in my life? Wasn’t even sweating.
After a series of 2-hour cat naps, up for the day. Tight cruise-ship type of room. Managed the shower. Unpacked my run clothes. Marathon not ‘til tomorrow. Today, Osaka’s Happy Morning Run. Start near Osaka Castle, same run beginning as Sunday’s marathon.
Sunshiny skies, light jacket. Good to acclimate, get in a short run (after flying all-day yesterday). Just a 5k – not the distance that had me freaked. Japanese characters. Super foreign. Squiggle, 2 long lines. Box shape, arrow to the right. Crazy foreign.
Navigation: Google Maps to my destination, British app ‘What3Words’ would get me home. No tunes, no streaming. Phone fully-charged ALWAYS. Solo travel navigation tool.
Immediately outta the hotel, wrong direction. LOL> Ok, reset. Turnaround. Much faster my second try. Empty city streets. Saturday morning early. Two undergrounds, one long street – then, green park ahead AND other runners. [GREAT hotel location 😊]
Once in Castle Park, English signage & super friendly volunteers. Nicest folks. Upbeat, smiles, ‘good morning’. No blending. Giant white Gulliver far, far from home.
Brought my registration card. Bib pick-up easy peasy (just kept showing my piece of paper). ‘United States’ – VERY cool. An hour early. I’m where I need to be. Just follow the crowd – & soak in the experience. Sea of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Japan.
Announcements. Something repetitive. More Japanese.
WELCOME 🇬🇧 & an opening ceremony… DRUMS. Traditional & AWESOME! …& then we ran. 14 minutes. Garmin read 1.5 miles. Definitely notta 5k. Short & sweet. But… I got out. No longer hotel sequestered. Quick shower, change of clothes.
Focus: FOOD. Handful of cherry tomatoes not gonna fill the Buddha.
Happy Morning, friendly sunshiny Japan!
Osaka ‘Happy Morning Run’
He did the Mash, he did the MonsterDash. the MonsterDash. It was a graveyard smash… ♫ ♬ ♭
Halloween 2019 – been a crazy snowy one this year in Colorado.
SATURDAY. First marathon-free weekend since mid-August. Kicked off with a trail run/hike in Bear Canyon. Mud/ice/snow littered but GREAT to be outside, get some altitude, soak up the thin air.
Post run? Dinner theatre with Ash & Tom. Mamma Mia! SUPER fun, campy. LOVED LOVED! Mamma Mia Mai Tai’s & an ABBA sing-a-long storyline. Chiquitita, Waterloo, Winner Takes it All… and of course, Dancing Queen. FAMILY quarterly tradition. Home before season’s THIRD blast ❄️
SUNDAY. Louisville’s Halloween-themed MonsterDash. Afternoon start/stop in Community Park. Cold-motivated to a 3rd place old-person [Masters] finish. Get out & get it done. LOL>
11-year history: rain never ever, temps in the 60’s. Well not THIS year. 27 & SNOW. Brrr…
Post run? Hunkered indoors. Fireplace. Lasagna. Couch-watched the biggest flakes with Pup ❤️
MONDAY. 4WD to work; tight 12 hours between storms. A record FOURTH October storm Tuesday/Wednesday. Foot of snow, sub-zero windchill. Yikes! More trick than treat.
Daily Camera Retweeted #Boulder has received 11.2 inches of snow during this storm so far
Halloween’rs: Grab your EPIC pass. Lifts opening before Thanksgiving this season – earliest ski start in 22 years. Keystone, A Basin, Loveland, Winter Park, Eldora. Colorado HOLIDAY TREAT 🎃⛷️
MonsterDash Louisville
October 27, 2019 Results presented by SVE SoCal and timed by SVE SoCal
Participants: 238 Last Updated: 10/27/2019 4:55:41 PM
1162 KEENAN HAGA 00:53:21 10K M 08:36 min/mile
MonsterDash 10k
Memorial Day 2019
- Today we REMEMBER. Honoring those who Serve & Protect.
- Today we CELEBRATE our democracy/our freedom. USA – Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
After last year’s FUN RUN experience, vowed I’d never miss another Bolder Boulder. Memorial Day Monday, a Colorado tradition. Unfortunately, no convincing my neighbor to run 2019’s 10k – HA! – but me, alarm set, run shorts ready, RTD Bus to the Start.
Ran my first Bolder Boulder 2001 (almost 20 years ago) – long before I Colorado rooted. I knew, this place, somehow, someday.
7:13am. With so much marathoning in my life schedule, didn’t bother uploading a qualifying wave time. It’s a 10k, a FUN RUN – with 41,000 of my Colorado besties. HUGE! Super organized. Amazed how seamless this event kicks. Well done, Boulder 🇺🇸
Tight first mile. Legs stiff after yesterday’s near 7 hour, 50K elevation climb in Vedauwoo. But miles 2, 3, 4, 5 – Front Range Flatirons surrounded – the JOY was there. sub-8:30/min pace. Picked off ‘EA’ & ‘E’ wave runners, worked my way thru the double D’s.
Won’t have to worry ‘bout qualifying next year. Yep, already registered: May 25, 2020. Mark your calendar. Better yet – come to Boulder & run America’s BIGGEST BEST 10k, the Bolder Boulder. LOVE this place, this race! Gotta/hafta/MUST RUN ❤️
BOLDERBoulder
May 27, 2019 in Boulder, CO
EB100 KEENAN HAGA 8:18 8:25 8:33 8:31 8:23 9:11 53:40
Number of finishers: 41,197
Number of females: 21,676
Number of males: 19,521
Average time: 1:21:52
Memorial Day 2019
Bolder Boulder 2019
2019 EB100 KEENAN HAGA 53:40
2018 FB501 KEENAN HAGA 1:14:29.24
2014 DA255 K R HAGA 48:26
2013 DA218 K R HAGA 51:24
2009 H721 Keenan Haga 53:51
2007 JC370 Keenan Haga 57:34
2002 CA217 Keenan Haga 51:28
2001 CC373 K R HAGA 49:38