Remember summer? It will come again!!

It's winter now:

Days of Sailing in Susnshine are few.

But to keep you warm and tuned:

a link to the Fukuoka Sunset Sailing videos 2014

click here:

YouTubes 2014

Greetings from Hakata Wan.

Salute.

Itoshima: Here we come...our yearly Kaki goya Run (2014)

December 23

is a national holiday in Japan.

That day is becoming our yearly 

Kaki goya Run Event.

(kaki=oyster, goya=hut, the place where you eat "bbq-ed" oysters.) 

As prep for the upcoming Xmas, 

End of the Year

and New Year Parties.

And of course as a SLD training for the 

Ibusuki Marathon in January.

Lucky us, as the weather was perfect that day.

Please click the video.

music: Rise & Fall by Steven Garcia @ Cafe del Mar.

Salute.

And so, the New Year has started with Happy Runs.

For Good Reasons, 

Japanese people try to visit 3 temples

 as soon as the New Year has started.

We decided to do it On-the-Run.

It's just after 5 AM, January 1st.

Our first temple is Kusuda Jinja.

This is the temple so important for Yamakasa.

The Temple Runners.

 It's not only Run and Pray.

Here we have a hot-bite in an umegai mochi.

The major temples (this is at Hakosaki) have loads of

food and drink stalls.

Yes, it's a big event this visit-3-temples-in-the-New-Year.

After our 3rd temple, it was a final 5 K stretch with horizontal snow....

brbrbr, but the hotspring is around the corner....

The next day....

Noriko and i decided to join Mr Sadaike for his amazing 

8888th run!

It's mind boggling how to keep track of so many runs.

And telling you, he runs at least 10K a day...

..that makes a total of at least twice around the world!

Congratulations Sadaike san.

Salute.