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PEACE RUN 2013 Running Across Australia & New Zealand

Getting ready for the next epic journey in the southern hemisphere.

This is going to be the 2nd continent for my PEACE RUN Running 40,000km (25,000miles) Around the World on 5 continents.

I'll start my run on September 1 leaving Perth, Western Australia.

8000km(5000miles) in 8 months to go...which is as long as the quarter of whole my trek.

The longest stretch of vast desert plain is the Nullarbor, where I have once ridden across by bicycle on the way riding across Australia in 1995.

Wait for me! I'll be right there soon!!

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I've Made it!!

About noon on Sept. 12 I finished my "PEACE RUN 2012 Running Across Japan Part2" at Kagoshima Station after running 3482.3 km (2164.2 miles) from Wakkanai, Hokkaido.

There were so many people on my way I talked to and I shared happy moment with.

So many things happened every day, most of which I had never imagined and expected.

Life is a drama with no scenerios. That's true.

I am so sorry that I have been lazy about writing this journal on my blog.

But I kept writing my everyday story on my KAY'S BLOG in Japanese.

http://kaytaka.blog35.fc2.com/

Lots of photos are there. You can enjoy them.


Thanks so much to those who have supported me on the way.

Next time I'll run across New Zealand and Australia in 2013.
Life's been good so far. But I will keep on searching for what I got to do while running around the world!

Day 42: Ono-Iwaki

I always love the local routes, where traffic is not so heavy even though the shoulders are narrow.
Prefectural Highway Route 41 is one of the kind of my favorites.

It runs along JR Banetutousen and the Natsui River runs along the highway.

Quiet and comfortable to enjoy running into the central Iwaki City.

I didn't notice I had been running with a doggy until it barks just beside me!

Usually I stop running as I see the dog and walk quietly so as not to scare the dog.

But this time the situation was different.

So I kept running for a while as fast as I possibly could.

After I ran about 2 miles (about 3km), the dog gave up running after me and it went away.

This is not America! All the doggies should be leashed.

*Distance today: 28.6miles (46.0km)

*Total Distance from Wakkanai:1038.9 mlies (1671.56km)


More photos on KAY'S BLOG

http://kaytaka.blog35.fc2.com/blog-entry-2033.html

Day 41: Towa-Ono

Following mountain route 349.

There are not always sidewalks and shoulders.

They sometimes disappear and appear again.

Traffic is busy with trucks and trailers, which work for reconsturcution of tsunami affected area.

Abukuma Highland lies at 3000 feet above sea level.

It's been cool enough since it's cloudy.


I have run from north to south of the Pacific coast line to see what's going on around Tsunami affected area.

But I have noticed the fact I have never ever known, which mass media have never reported.

Mass media don't tell us everything we want to know.

We sometimes have to go and get what we have to know.

Those who are not the victims of 3.11 have to see anything from the point of the victims' view.

Seeing is believing...That's absolutely true.

Everything has both causes and results.

Earthquake caused Tsunami.

Tsunami caused fatal accidents of the nuclear plants and then radioactive contamination.



*Distance Today: (38.9 km)

*Total Distance from Wakkanai: (1625.56km)

More photos on KAY'S BLOG

http://kaytaka.blog35.fc2.com/blog-entry-2032.html

Day 40: Minamisoma-Towa

I took DeTour route to avoid the area contaminated by radioactivity.

Minamisoma is just 10 miles from the area.

We still cannot go farther south.

Following the Fukushima R-12 and National Highway R-349.

After I crossed the Yagisawa Pass, I entered Iitatemura Village.

Iitatemura Village now open to public after


But there are few people who come back.

Most of the young generation have moved to different places such as Iwaki, Fukushima or Koriyama.

I felt as though I had been running in the ghost town, which I often saw in the Mid-West of the US.

They didn't want to move out but they had to.

All of sudden people were gone.

City hall, post office, stores and houses are all empty except a few .

I saw a signboard on the door of the store which said 24-hours OPEN, which made me feel sad.

I entered Kawamata Cho next to Iitatemura and talked with a woman at the grocery store.

She moved from other town which now belongs to the radiation warning area.

"Without Nuclear Plant...everything would be OK...people, houses and business..."

But it's too late.

"Fukushima would not be what it used to be if nothing had been changed."


*Distance Today: (54.0 km)

*Total Distance from Wakkanai: (1586.66km)

More photos on KAY'S BLOG

http://kaytaka.blog35.fc2.com/blog-entry-2030.html

Day 31:Kamaishi-Rikuzentakata

Today I had a partner who ran with me all the way.

A friend of mine, Mr.Yamamoto is a ultra-runner who has already done 70km-marathon in May.

And a photographer Midori drove to Kamaishi with him.

The route was full of variety, tunnels and climbing hills here and there.

Long way to Rikuzentakata.

We had a scattered rain in the afternoon.

I said goodby to Mr.Yamamoto and Midori at the supermarket in Rikuzentakata.

Pitched my tent after the supermarket was closed.

*Distance today: 36.5 miles (58.8km)

*Total distance from Wakkanai: 795.miles (1279.26km)



More photos on KAY'S BLOG

http://kaytaka.blog35.fc2.com/blog-entry-2022.html