An off week

I went up north to Sendai last week. I spent a lot of time with old friends so I missed a couple of runs. I finished with 52 miles which is not very good but it could have been worse. Highlights of the week were a workout on the track at Miyaginohara. It was kind of a long workout. 2 miles w/u 3 miles tempo at 7:10 pace. 4 x 1000 at 4:00 pace and then 4 x 200 at 40 sec. It is not so fast but quite long. That is almost 7 miles on the track. The other interesting thing about the workout was the other people on the track. It is a community track so anyone can use it. There were junior high, high school and professional runners all using it at once. The professionals, a womens team looked so good. It is kind of fun to watch really talented runners. They looked so smooth and fast. I was jealous.
I also ran from my hotel out to the ocean along the river. It is a course I used to run all the time when I lived in Sendai. It was about 15 miles.
Other interesting parts of Sendai, seeing old friends, Hide and Toshi. Toshi has become a part-time actor and has done many commercials and some TV dramas. I went to Hide's house, had dinner and watched a video tape of Toshi's performances. Anyway it was nice t return to my home in Japan and see old friends.