Akebono, the 250kg/485lbs ex-sumo champion to run the Tokyo Marathon
Although it hasn’t hit the mainstream press yet, the morning TV “wide” news has been saying that Akebono Taro, the 64th sumo yokozuna/champion, is planning to run the 2009 Tokyo Marathon on March 22.
According to the machine-translated version of his “Diary of Amateur MMA — Akebono Taro vs 42.195km” the former champion says that he is turning, “40 years old this year and at 220kg[485lbs] a full marathon will feel pretty ‘tight’.” He went on to say that, “the time limit is 7 hours and so I am set for that time–I really want a good job.”
He must really want to do a good job because on his personal blog of his life at home in Hawaii, his latest post shows him training hard…
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February 12th, 2009 at 2:13 am
lolz 42km and 7h time thats 6km/h and about 3.75mp/h
thats just walking…