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14 June 2015
Bicycle ride
It's already June, and it have been more than 6 months passed since I posted last article.
It seems I need some kind of reminder to write new article. In most of cases, I use evernote to write my draft article. So I can edit my article anywhere and anytime. In fact, I wrote some draft on my evernote, but I couldn't upload them to my blog due to some reasons.
Today, I'm going to write about the event that I joined a month ago. But before that I should write about my bicycle and previous event.
Last year, I bought another bicycle to make my holiday much fun. I have the cyclo-cycle that I bought 7 years ago, and last year I bought road bike.
Here is my new bicycle. Focus's CAYO EVO TEAM Replica. It's my first carbon made bicycle, and my first road bike. It's far light than my previous bicycle and have a better gears. Which means, I can ride faster and longer with this bicycle. Then I joined bicycle ride event in Sapporo last year.
Last August I joined Tour of Kamui Ishikari-Shinshinotsu stage, and rode about 140 km in a day. It's not race and there were 3 different groups which divided by average speed (25 km/h, 20 km/h and 15 km/h). I chose middle, but my group was faster than other groups then we needed to upgraded to the fastest group. That was really tough for me to ride about 100 km including mountains with average speed 25 km/h, but I arrived to goal with them.
I rode my bicycle several times last year, but I couldn't join any bicycle event except this one. There's cold winter here in Sapporo and we cannot ride bicycle during winter because snow covers road. Then I started to ride bicycle again in April, and last month I joined Tour of Kamui Sapporo stage. Which is same bicycle event I joined last year, but it's ride in different place. They have several stages and this time I joined Sapporo stage. There's no mountain and not so long stage.
Red line in the map shows my path of my riding. This stage was about 80 km long, and almost flats. But there's strong winds. The strong winds made us slow down to about 10 to 15 km/h even in the fastest group. That was really tough, but final few kilometres the wind stopped and good weather for bicycle riding. I will join these bicycle event this year too, and maybe I will write about the event that I might join.
Thanks.
29 March 2011
Team as one
After the earthquake, Japan Football Association and J. League decided to hold the charity match which called "Gambaro, Japan" charity match Samurai Blue vs. J. League TEAM AS ONE. Samurai Blue is Japanese national football team. J. League TEAM AS ONE is all star team from J. League clubs.
J. League is Japanese football league. There are 2 divisions and there are 38 football teams (18 teams in J. League division 1, and 20 teams in J. League division 2). They decided to hold the charity match in Osaka because it's tough to hold match in Tokyo due to electricity shortage.
Today was the day of the charity match. Of course, I watched the match on TV. I heard the match broadcasted around the world in live.
I felt the match was really nice. There was one very famous Japanese football player on the pitch today. His name is Kazuyoshi Miura (aka King Kazu). He's 44 years old and he is still playing at Yokohama FC (J. League division 2). He is the first Asian football player who played at Serie A in 1994.
His dance after his goal called "Kazu dance(カズダンス)" is really famous, and I believe many people who were watching the match wanted to see his dance. Well, we could see his dance!! You can watch his goal at the charity match from the video on top. (TV station might delete the video on YouTube.)
Finally, the Samurai Blue (Japan National Team) won the game, of course. But TEAM AS ONE (all star team from J. League clubs) played really nice. And luckily King Kazu did his wonderful job! I believe the charity match encourage people in Tohoku area.
Thank you.
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