Assistant Producer: Yuri Kimura
Navigator: Hisako Yamaguchi
Members: Ben Pedersen
Interpreter: Togo Sasaki, Ito Shunsuke
Thank you very much for the excellent show, members and radio staffs, especially to the only member this time, Ben chan for sharing the interesting story from the Miyako Salmon Half Marathon.
He completed the whole half marathon with his time of 2 hours and 17 minutes while the cut line was 2 hours and 20 minutes. That's remarkable.
Ben chan also told us that while he was running, he was saying (he thought he was saying) that he was tired in Japanese to the people whomever talked to him, but they looked him weird.
That's because what he was saying was "ISOGASHII" which means "busy" in Japanese.
So, I assumed it was like:
Audience: Hey, Benchan!! How's your running!?
Benchan: I am freaking "BUSY!!"
Well. It might sound like "Can you see me running, dumb it!?" *LOL*
I am just kidding. It should not be that bad.
Yamaguchi san, the navigator, said that Togo san and I also would need to join the marathon next year. It was very funny to see Togo san exhausted already just by thinking himself in the marathon after Yamaguchi san mentioned about it. Me? No. I am good at watching them run, not running.
So, I was not very positive about myself running the marathon, neither Togo san nor Yamaguchi san. Even the assistant producer, Yuri san, said that she did not like marathon too much in the ending part of the daily radio programs. Hashimoto san, the producer, was like:
"You guys are discouraging the people in the Miyako Salmon Half Marathon. *LOL*"
Benchan asked us if anybody there know any story of the marathon during the show.
I did not say any story then, but now I remember one story, so I write it here:
It's about Ms. Yuko Arimori, who won the silver medal at Barcelona Olympic.
While she was running marathon, the audiences there kept saying her nickname "Animo! Animo!"
So, she was very encouraged by that and could push herself to the goal, then she won the silver medal. But what "animo" actually meant was like "ganbare (hang in there)" in Spanish.
It was good misunderstanding, she said after the Olympic.
And this is the weekly cover picture this time.
Thank you very much members and staffs!!
I will see you next week!!