{"id":1955,"date":"2012-03-11T15:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-11\/1955"},"modified":"2012-03-11T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T06:15:31","slug":"todays-kyoto-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-03-11\/1955","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Kyoto Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1955'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"107634\" href='\/i\/JF7_107634.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_107634_sm.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"\"\nid=\"i107634\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 cropped &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>3200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_107634.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_107634.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>The 0.078052 Percent <\/span>\n<br\/>This is how they take a Sunday-afternoon stroll\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Today was <a href='http:\/\/www.kyoto-marathon.com\/'>the Kyoto\nMarathon<\/a> <span class='nobr'>\uff08\u4eac\u90fd<\/span>\u30de\u30e9\u30bd\u30f3\uff12\uff10\uff11\uff12). <span class='nobr'>The guy above<\/span>, looking remarkably affable and relaxed, was not only\nleading the race at the 35km mark (about 80% of the way done), but had <span class='nobr'>a\nfull<\/span> 30-second lead on second place, and more than <span class='nobr'>a minute<\/span> on third. <span class='nobr'>I have no<\/span> idea whether he ended up winning or even finishing, but at this\npoint he looked solidly in command.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href='http:\/\/runnet.jp\/record\/userResultRaceResultShowAction.do?raceId=33419&amp;numberCard=10013'>he<\/a> won the race by 29 seconds, in <span class='nobr'>a leasurly<\/span> time of 2:26:21.<\/p>\n\n<p>He was, at that point, #1 out of 14,093 runners: 1&divide;14,093 is 0.00078052, hence the caption.<\/p>\n\n<p>The finish line was less than <span class='nobr'>a minute's<\/span> stroll from my front door, and\nprovided its own photo opportunities once <span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> my way back...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"108158\" href='\/i\/JF7_108158.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_108158_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"\"\nid=\"i108158\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 300mm f\/2 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>3200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_108158.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_108158.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Thrill of Victory in Front of the Heian Shrine<\/span>\n<br\/>after 3:18:27 of what I can only imagine as agony\n<br\/>( the two guys with raised arms are exactly on the finish line )\n<\/div>\n\n<p>While I was out taking these pictures, <span class='nobr'>I was chatting<\/span> with my brother\nMike in California (via the most excellent <a\nhref='http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/whatsapp-messenger\/id310633997?mt=8'>WhatsApp\nMessenger<\/a>) <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> about marathons, since he's run Boston and such in the\npast, with <span class='nobr'>a best<\/span> of 2:49:31. After <span class='nobr'>I returned<\/span> home and started the photos\nloading into Lightroom, <span class='nobr'>I was putzing<\/span> around on Facebook and found that he\nhad just finished the 35th Annual Catalina Marathon <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> hours prior. I'm\nhurt.... <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> know why he chose to run that one instead of Kyoto\n<span class='nobr'>(or both! :-)).<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2012-03-12\/1956' class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the Kyoto Marathon \uff08\u4eac\u90fd\u30de\u30e9\u30bd\u30f3\uff12\uff10\uff11\uff12). The guy above, looking remarkably affable and relaxed, was not only leading the race at the 35km mark (about 80% of the way done), but had a full 30-second lead on second place, and more than a minute on third. I have no idea whether he ended up winning or even finishing, but at this point he looked solidly in command.<\/p> <p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> he won the race by 29 seconds, in a leasurly time of 2:26:21.<\/p> <p>He was, at that point, #1 out of 14,093 runners: 1&divide;14,093 is 0.00078052, hence the caption.<\/p> <p>The finish line [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}