It was an encounter by chance.
 
I read a magazine about trail running by chance. It charmed me and I feel like to start running in the mountains.
 
but
 
I didn't know where to run
i didn't know what i needed to run.
 
As a start, I ran in a nearby park with sneakers and clothes I had. I was not good at “running" and didn't like that, too.
But It was fun unlike running on the asphalt road,”Zak-zak Jaz-ja” the sound I made while running made me feel good!
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10 years later
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I found myself i run everyday.
Now running come naturally to me. I feel uncomfortable if I don't run.
 
Over the past decade many things have changed around me.
My drinking friends turned into my running friends . I was alone at race venues, but now I have many companies with me.
 
I could run only 3 km 10 years ago, but now i'm ready to run 100 miles.
 
Ten years ago i could run freely like a child
There were not so many trail running races, but everyone enjoyed running in the mountains.
 
Now the number of trail runners rapidly increases and the races has also increased in Japan.
 
It's fun to join races, but  most of the time we don't  produce results as we expected.
 
Sometime, I was depressed for not being suitable for trail running.
I felt I could not get faster unless I got to race even more.
 
Looking at SNS, I see people who have finished with similar time as myself goes to abroad and enjoy races.   I wish I could, but  I know that I can not do that, which makes me frustrated.
 
At least, I want to get to the domestic 100 mile race, but I have to get the ITRA points for that.
 
In order to take points, I have to finish another race.
Even if I have the points, I have to go through the lottery or terrible click battle.
There is no guarantee that I will definitely be in the race.
 
I want to race, but I can't
I can't  run  because I can't race
 
Now I noticed that unless I participate in a race,  I can not have fun to run, which's ridiculous!
It was a chance encounter.
 
Under cherry blossoms, i met friends who can sympathize with my feeling about trail running, races, running in mountains.
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We live in Yamanashi.
There are many fields to play.
 
As soon as you start running the trail is nearby.
You can become united with nature without being conscious of someone.
 
There are fields we can feel having fun when we start trail running. They are not only in races or abroad.
We can even take a journey of 100 miles just nearby us.
 
100 miles is not a special one.
If you have a body to be able to run, gratitude for running and have companies who can sympathize with that feeling, you can run anywhere, anytime.
 
 
“MUJIN100”
 
Even if we get old,  wherever you are, what you do, no matter what race you participate.
There is a place right here you can  loudly say"trail running is fun".

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