We all live in the Denenchofu - Todoroki area west of Tokyo. It takes us probably about 45 minutes to get to work on a sometimes very crowded train. About twice a week we swap the train with our running gear, put our suits into a backpack, enhance this sometimes with a laptop and run to work. We meet 05:30 in the morning and run through side alleys straight into the city. It is always amazing how little traffic there is on those small streets. From time to time there is a busier street to cross but for the rest you can't believe that you're running in the middle of the biggest metroplitan area of the world. One meets earlybirds on their way to work, night owls on their way home and from time to time a taxi driver who honks his horn probably thinking "baka desune".
We arrive after 70 minutes or so at our goal, a small capsule hotel in Hamamatsu-cho where we go for a shower and a hot bath "japanese style" (http://www.gry.jp/). We take the suit from the backpack, dress us properly and leave for a small breakfast in the area.
We arrive in the offices around 8:30am, still comfortably before the crowd. It feels good to see all those sleepy faces arriving in the office having exercised our heartbeats already.
Depending on the speed of the jog there is also quite a lot of talking either during the run, in the "ofuro" (hot bath) and definitively at breakfast. That's where ideas such as the Oxfam participation get born and that's where this started for us ...
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