It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that I have "retired" from the 100km walk. I made it 52 km, which is further than I have ever walked in a day before. I could sit here and blame the rain and headwind, which was not fun at all, but in reality the rain has stopped. The reason I have to quit is that my pace was way too slow and I was about to "timed out" at the next checkpoint. So I opted for a warm & cozy convenience store to wait for a ride home. 

The reason my pace was so slow was that I did zero training for this event. I have been nursing a bad ankle for a number of months and was trying to take it easy so that it wouldn't swell up during this event. The good news is that my ankle is doing fine. The bad news is that my lack of preparation left me woefully unprepared for the necessary pace to finish this event. That was a big mistake on my part.

Thanks to everybody who supported me. I will do some proper prep and try again in the future!

about 30km now. Light rain but not too bad. My feet hurt but I have a long way to go. I am taking a short break now.

100キロ歩行のイベントが5/3（火）ついに開始しました。

現在開始後約3時間です。雨の予報ですが、今はまだ降ってきておらずいい感じです。

スタート地点の後楽園では、NEOの生徒さん関係の方たちもいらっしゃいました。

大会主催側の松田先生を始め、レッスンで毎年このイベントの話を語っていらっしゃったRさん。

無事にスタート地点で会えています。

同じように初回参加されるRadio MOMOのCさん。緊張されていましたが、とうとう当日がやってきました。笑顔です！

ボランティアの貼り紙を見て、サポートスタッフ登録をしてくれたY子さん。彼女自身はふだんはランナー。

10キロ歩行したところで、土手になりました。なんとそこにはMさんが！しかもNEOのサインつきで！That must have cheered Dave Up!!!　このMさんもランナーです。

さて、私Ayumiは50キロ地点にあたる備前中学校まで車で行って応援する予定です。

雨がどれだけもつでしょうか？？？

Tomorrow I will participate in a 100km walk from Korakoen to Shizutani School and back to Korakoen. It will begin at 10am and there is a 24 hour time limit.  

I will try to post some updates on this blog as a I go, so please check back here tomorrow!

Do we have any Marvel fans at NEO? I have been a fan of comic books since I was a kid, and I enjoy seeing them come to life on the silver screen. I think the Marvel movies, such as Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, have been especially good. I’m a bit of a Marvel geek.

On Friday, April 29th, the next installment in the series hit screens in Japan. This one is called Captain America: Civil War, and it features many of the heroes pitted against each other. If you watched the Avengers movies, this is an exciting time.

There have been 13 Marvel movies so far, including Civil War. Below is a timeline that shows all the movies and TV shows that are part of the universe so far (you can click it to make it bigger). You don’t have to watch them all, but you should try one or two and see if you like them!

Vocabulary:
silver screen: movie screen
geek: fanatic
installment: part of a series
hit screens: came to movie theaters
pitted against each other: fighting each other