Yay Wakanomori!

[asakiyume]

Let's give a big round of applause to Wakanomori!! He just finished the Boston Marathon! Official time, 3:22:03, average pace, 7:43.


Go, Waka, Go!

Comments

[usha123.livejournal.com]

sounds like a great timing..is this his first?

[usha123.livejournal.com]

sorry, I think I got an Indianism in there..would you say 'great time?'..now I am even more confused!

well, what I meant was that (with a son who runs marathons) 3.22 sounds very very good to me :-)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice that, but now that you mention it, yes, I guess in American English we'd say "it was a great time." I thought it was good too! But he had been hoping for a faster pace.

So your son runs marathons too? Cool! How many has he run?

[usha123.livejournal.com]

I think around six..five in India and the NY marathon a year or two back...plus several half marathons including one in Reading near London last month..he talks about 'times', so I have some idea :-)

also that wakanamori could speed up towards the end..that really sounds great!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of marathons and half-marathons! We need to get your son and my husband together one day!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No, this was his second--because you need to have a certain time to qualify to run in the Boston Marathon (and actually, you need to be sure the marathon you run in to qualify is certified as a qualifying marathon). His first one was last September.