第19回中国四国県職員親善駅伝大会参加
昨年の徳島大会に引き続き2回目の出場です。今年の大会は、岡山県の開催で、旭川の河川敷を走る4.2キロのコースで6人のたすきリレーです。目標タイムは20分以内で走ることですが、駅伝は一応チームを背負うので走っているときは大変つらい、たった4.2キロですが、走っている間は大変長く感じました。結果は今年も最下位となってしまいましたが、何とか、来年は順位を一つでもあげたいものです。反省点は多いのですが、スピード練習を入れて10キロを40分を切るという目標をたて来年の大会に備えたいと思います。今後の目標、ストレッチを必ず行う。眉山のジョグを必ず入れる、10キロの大会に積極的にでること。以上です。今年のタイム 4.2キロ 19:22徳島出発 職員会館9;40 現地着12:20途中渋滞あり。岡山ロイヤルホテル泊 宿泊、懇親会、朝食 14200円ホテル出発 9;00 職員会館到着 11:15天候:曇り 夏場であったが、曇りであったので少しましだった。東條、山根、小杉、藤代、三宅、加藤ekiden An ekiden, sometimes called a marathon relay in English, is a long-distance relay, road race.Ekiden originated in Japan, although the concept of a long distance relay race is probably not original or unique to any country. The first ekiden race was sponsored by the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1917 , and was run over three days between the old Japanese capital of Kyoto and the modern capital of Tokyo, a distance of 508km, to celebrate the anniversary of the moving of the capital to Tokyo.The popularity of ekiden in Japan is unsurpassed in any other country, and its popularity has spread around the world with races run in New Zealand, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, China, Germany, France, the United States, Korea, and elsewhere."Ekiden" (駅伝) in Japanese combines the characters for "station" and "transmit". This name was coined by the poet Toki Zemmaro (1885-1980), who was head of the Yomiuri Shimbun's Social Affairs Department at the time. The original concept of the race hearkens back to Japan's old Tokaido communication and transportation system in which stations were posted at intervals along the road. In the race, each runner on a team runs the distance from one "station" to the next, and then hands off a cloth sash, or tasuki, to the next runner.The lengths of ekiden can vary greatly, with some local, amateur races covering 20-30km with five or six runners on a team, and larger national and international races running a full marathon (42.195km) or longer, also usually with five or six runners per team. Some races can stretch hundreds of kilometers long.One of the most popular modern ekiden in Japan is the Hakone Ekiden, which features teams of students from various Japanese universities. This race from Tokyo to Hakone and back is held over two days at the New Year, and is a popular spectator sport that receives full network television coverage nationwide. Runners in the race compete to set individual records as well as to support their teams, and the race is considered to display many aspects of Japanese culture and spirit, including individual perseverence, identity within a group, and the importance within the Japanese hierarchy of allegiance to a major university