"Don't despise the day of small beginnings!"

My first marathon - Country Music Marathon

God has provided me with a great running club in Tokyo

A club photo after a race

With Mrs. Hirayu and Mrs. Goto, two running buddies, after a GOOD race

The director of our running club is over 75 years old, and is still running marathons!

With Mrs. Ishimae - we have deep talks when we run!

Our running club, proudly holding up our team banner

2004 Tokyo International Women's Marathon

Only 500 women are chosen to run in this race

What I priviledge to be running the streets of Tokyo for God's glory!

After the race with my best running friend, Yuko

Many friends from church came to cheer me on

With our CRM director Roger and dear friend Yuko before a race

Our running community continues to grow!

After running this race, I found out we were having Kadin!

My running friends ran to our house in the snow to meet Kadin!

Mrs. Suzuki is my mom's age, and runs 100 km races.

A marathon come-back after Kadin's birth

February 2007 - Roger and I both ran in the Inaugural Tokyo Marathon

... and Roger and Lyndell joined us as well!

Two months later, Kadin joined us for another race

What a surprise to finish third!

Kadin let Mommy run a marathon on his first birthday

Even though it was pouring rain, it was an honor to run!

The course map

We were 2 of 30,000, chosen from a pool of 100,000 entries!

... and to pray for Japan as we ran...