Race Recap Tokyo Marathon 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มี.ค. 2023
- Tokyo Marathon was an incredible experience. I got my third star, and I also came home with a new PB! Here's my breakdown.
0:48 kit
3:29 nutrition plan
4:58 aid stations
7:15 race morning
9:28 corrals
11:17 congested start
13:48 5k-15k
15:02 half marathon
17:26 25k-35k
19:47 35k-40k
22:43 the last k
24:53 post race
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Sounds simple, but yet so powerful. "Just say yes" every time the marathon asks you, "Do you want it?"
That bit around min 22 about the mantras (the question the marathon poses and the answer you give, "Do you still want to hit your goal? Just say yes"; "This is what I came here to do") is extraordinary, awesome motivation. Thank you so much for putting it into words.
I hope it makes sense
@@kofuzi It does indeed. I, for one, not only understand, but "feel" and apprehend your message.
@kofuzi what watch do you where when you train? Do you race in a different watch?
My first marathon was Chicago last year. I thought I was ready for the day. I got to mile 20 which was the longest training run I had done in preparation for the day. At that time, my brain convinced me to take a break and walk a bit. I’m sure now that I was physically capable of continuing to run but when the marathon ask me, I was unprepared and answered poorly. I need to spend more time focusing on my mental training for Grandma’s in June.
that's a great place to run a great time
@@kofuzi I do agree. Chicago 2017 is still a my PB 2:53:00, and I really enjoy the race. Gotta be back soon.
The 2.5 min ‘mantra’ section from 20:20 is the best content I’ve ever seen from you. Absolute gold. Massive congratulations on your PB 💪🏻
I love that you showed us that running a marathon it is not easy. Ive watched lots of ppl doing these videos after they run a marathon and they try to make it look like it is easy and almost anyone can do it. Thanks for make it REAL for us. Congrats of your marathon!
it is not easy
Hi Ko, you are so right, the doubts in the last 10km can consume you, it is harder too when there is a noisy crowd and you feel you can’t hear to think - i say: “you are there to get a job done, no regrets, get it done”. see you in Boston (love the content, always top notch)
Congrats on your new PB! And yay Pocari Sweat, it's my fav. As for the course being quiet - spectators were discouraged from yelling "more than necessary" as part of the Corona countermeasures. All the big races here, like the Hakone Ekiden, have had cheering/yelling prohibited for several years, so I think that played a part, too.
You can find Pocari Sweat wherever you can find a Japanese market in the US! (San Francisco, San Mateo, San Jose, Torrance, etc) I grew up having it as a drink option!
Massive congrats!!!
“Just say yes!” and “What did we come here to do!?” Thanks so much for sharing! Definitely will be thinking of this in Boston next month. Nice work!!!
Brilliant! 🙏
Great accomplishment!
So happy for you! Thanks for sharing! ☺️
Huge congrats on the PB!!!
This is the best marathon recap video I’ve seen! You’ve got me so excited (& nervous) for Rotterdam marathon in a months time!!
Great recap. Congrats on the PR.
Heartfelt congratulations!!
Congrats! You really are running strong 💪 right now. Keep up the great work.
Congrats on the PB!!!
Just say YES. Loved it!
Congrats! I appreciate your insight, very motivating!
More great stuff thank you sir!
Well done, Mike! It looks like such a cool race and experience all around.
Congrats on the PB and thanks for sharing the details of your inner struggle to hold pace over the final 5K, that’s so inspirational. I’ve run only one full marathon but that was enough to fully appreciate the pain one feels in the last mile.
Congrats on your PB.. well done 👏🎉 love hearing your race reports+awesome clips 👌
Well deserved, loved the videos coming out of Japan overall
Congratulations! The inner struggle is real... thanks for sharing before my first marathon :)
Hell yeah! I love how you felt with the thoughts of doubts. Acknowledge and let them slide off !
Grandma's recap series was my favorite, but this now takes the cake. It gave me goosebumps, it was that good. As everyone else has mentioned, the mantras and meditation. Love it and thanks for bringing this one. Looking forward to Boston plans. I'm planning to come down for the weekend for the activities.
Your mantras are fire. Great video. Congrats.
Yes! I love the race recap videos!
Thanks Doc!
Enjoyed greatly your Tokyo experience Kofuzi ..thank you so much for sharing your athlete experience 💪👍
Somehow to fight with the mind and physical in the middle of the marathon and still able to film these amazing content just insane, love the breakdown! 💯 😁
What an awesome race recap! You made such a good point about saying yes. Way to dig deep Ko!
I love love these recaps on how the race went. So helpful in knowing the mindset, things to consider and how you were doing at each 5k. Thank you
Hi Kofusi! Thanks for sharing all your experiences🙏 Best wishes🙏
Great breakdown of your race Cousin Ko and the Mantra to keep you going to the finish is inspiring to me. Thank you!
Bro I love your breakdowns. Your videos are so insightful and helpful.
This is the most inspiring recap, and I still kept watching couple of times with your Tokyo race video!
Congrats, Kofuzi on the PB. Just say yes!
Kofuzi! Way to bring it in! Im going to use that mantra!
Great effort @Kofuzi! One day I will be able to do the 6! Hopefully one day the Caribbean will be a location for a world majors marathon!
Wow! What a great combination of race information for folks looking to race Tokyo and how the race was for you!
Wow!,Great race and race cap. Want to do it just to get the pancho.
It’s so good
Huge congrats on the PB Kofuzi. Really enjoyed watching your Tokyo Marathon vlogs. You've inspired me to hopefully definitely do this marathon one day🤞. Cheers man :)
The whole Tokyo series has been great, and this was my favourite of the lot. Interesting and useful.
Just say yes. I will take this with me on my next race. Thanks for the content!
love the detailed breakdown of the kit
amazing bro!
Thanks for the gear run-through. Appreciate the encouragement to "just say yes", congratulations on the new PB!
Congratulations on the PR Kofuzi. Looking forward to hopefully spotting you in Boston. We are around the same pace so maybe I’ll be able to use you as a pacer 😊
Awesome recap, loved the Tokyo coverage! Can relate to everything you said for my Tokyo race. Congrats again on your PB 👍Best of luck in Boston!
Glad you had a great race! Congrats again on the PB. That guy running in flip flops... wow!
Super congrats man. Love the recap, much like others have said about how you respond to the marathon asking you ✌️
AWESOME!!! Thanks soooo much for sharing your thoughts during the race and the mantras that helped you cope, THAT is extremely useful and I'm looking forward to seeing if my brain will go that way for my fast approaching Paris marathon. I'm still at the just-trying-to-run-the-whole-distance stage, and my godsend mantra is "if it hurts to walk and it hurts to run, you may as well run"!!
I’ve watched all of the race recaps and this one was the best. The mantras that you were describing were so powerful. Incredible what the kind can do when the body wants to quit. Great advice that I will use for my BQ attempt in Toronto. Congrats on a great PB.
"Do you want it? Just say yes!!" .These are great. Thank you.
Love that part about the meditating. Definitely felt like that on many hard long runs and last year when I ran my first marathon and really struggled from 22 and on. Your mind starts to run wild and say "this is hard you should stop", but deep down you know you can keep going and have to keep pushing 😈
congratulations. great vlog. happy for you.
thanks Michael!
I got emotional when you got emotional Kofuzi. 😊 just say yes! Love this and congrats!
Huge congratulations on the PR Ko! The bit from 20:20-22:38 about mastering your mindset and saying yes are extremely powerful, not to be understated nuggets of wisdom. Thank you for sharing with the running community!
It is great to hear your thoughts from one of the most biggest marathon held on earth
Definitely learned some of the tips from you for the upcoming race that I will have in October
Let's go Kofuzi! Practice& Hard work doesn't make a man perfect, but it makes IMPROVEMENTS! Let's goo on the new PB, this is the result of dedication on what you love- RUNNING!!! YESSIR!
Those ponchos look niiiice! Way to go! Hope to run this one day
These are great. As I’m getting ready for my 2nd marathon, going though the mental side of it is very helpful.
Good luck on your next race!
During those moments in my races I always repeat this quote to myself which has helped my get through a lot.
“How bad do you want it? To realise your potential you must respond with some version of this answer: More”.
Congrats on your PB! Been a longtime lurker and you definitely inspired me to tackle the marathon again. The breakdown helps and the approach to nutrition is key. Currently I would be lucky to keep up with you for a 5k but slow and steady. I liked your travel vlog. Getting lost in the mall doesn’t sound fun and I started to learn Japanese, especially the alphabet starting with hiragana
Congrats on the PB!
One of the best race reports I've seen, I was with you by your side for the whole race, thank you for taking the time to put it together.
Great description of the mental aspects of running a marathon.
I’m sure I’ll remember your words when running Tokyo 2024.
Congratulations to your race well done sir.
20 mile warm up for a 10km race. I experience the same self talk. Usually I tell myself that I have put in this much work (in training and to this point in the race) to be so close to reaching my goal - Don't give in now! So happy you were able to finish and get a PB.
The Tokya content has been really good. Thanks Ko
20:58 this whole general point is the single most useful piece of content I think you’ve posted. This is gold and will be something I come back to for race days. Thanks Ko!
congrats Mike you legend, this is so awesome to watch!! mega PB! Tokyo!
that whole 22nd minute of this vid should become an instant motiviational classic. that's what it's about.
I'd been saving it for a Run Motivation video, but I felt like it was the right time to share it here
well done dude!!
YES !
Nice recap! I always enjoy and take note of the mental strategy and mantra portions of these recaps. Congrats again on the PB!
thanks Sean!
Thanks for putting that part around 21-23 minutes in, I know it could've easily been cut from the video but with my A race coming up on Sunday and I'm having the doubts set in already I really needed to hear it. Thank you
EXCELLENT video. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
There is a lot of valuable wisdom in this video. Thanks man.
thanks for watching!
I spotted myself at 14 minute mark in the pink next to the hedge. I also ran a PB and first time under 3 hours (2:57:44). Great recap video and bought back that unbelievable feeling.
great job!
Very impressive 👏🏻
congrats on the third star and, as always, i'm so grateful for your amazing content. I'm preparing to run LA marathon this sunday (it will be my first marathon), and your channel has been such a huge source of inspiration and motivation for me throughout this training block. I'm somewhat new around here and continuing to enjoy your older videos as i try to keep my psych high for this weekend! forever grateful to you!
take it easy on the uphills!
Go get it Karan. All the best.
Congrats on the PB. I was going to ask you to do a video explaining how you have been training in recent years to get your sub-3 marathons, but then you mentioned at the end of this video that you are going to do that. I am looking forward to seeing those videos and hopefully incorporating some of those ideas into my own training.
Training methodology video coming up next week
Sounds tough but somewhat worth it and a bit fun, enjoyed the video 🎉
Congrats 🎉
excellent!
Pocari Sweat is available at Japanese markets in the CA Bay Area. I buy the concentrate and it's really nice to be able to control the sweetness of it.
Awesome video, and series, thanks for sharing and congrats on your PB!! Here's a tip on getting accurate splits in big city marathons (I run London, a *lot* slower than you!): get yourself a Stryd pod, their focus is on measuring power, but a side effect of that is that they are very, *very* accurate on pace/distance measurement, and you can set your watch to display that, rather than GPS. It works great, even in a skyscraper jungle, guess that will be handy in Chicago too? By the way - Chicago is a bucket list marathon for me, my parents studied there and would love to come and run the marathon there someday!
Congrats man. You ball out and it's a big inspiration for me. Hopefully i can meet you one day and personally thank you for helping ne achieve my first marathon - i played american football in college ad an offensive lineman. We're not supposed to be able to do this, but i did!
Congrats again!!
I hope we can meet soon!
Great great video, I watch it twice 😊. Last marathon I used your “yes I still want it “ , got me to Boston ❤❤❤
yes!
Kofuzi is legend
Pocari Sweat was offered in last year’s Soldier Field 10 in Chicago. I haven’t seen it anywhere else in the US but I grew up drinking it growing up in Malaysia & Hong Kong.
running my first marathon next year in Tokyo, your video really motivates me, thank you and wish me luck!
Have fun! 🍀
Nice recap. Next time I will tell myself yes I want it to hit the goal🤗
great vid. congratulations on your time. Go get that 4th star in Boston
Kudos to giving it all to make this a PB. As a marathon runner from HK, Tokyo has been the most desirable major I want to go. Kudos to pushing yourself thru the last 5K. My self-talks in the last 5K is very similar to yours, when my body was under so much stress and the energy level was so low. I am glad I didn't give up trying, even though I was shy of the goal time.
NYC had a drink station every single mile. I worked at the mile 19 station along 1st Av and I actually saw you run past!! Love your content.
btw @kofuzi you looked incredible! At mile 19 most people looked like death; it was so hot and lots of people were struggling but you looked like you were having the time of your life :P
Just keep on crushin it! Great job! Sub 3 again!