Former Morning Musume member�Yoshizawa Hitomi was another entertainer who finished the Tokyo Marathon on February 27th.

Afterwards, she expressed her thoughts and feelings on the marathon and her ambitions for the future.

Previously, I never would have guessed that I could complete a full marathon. At around 38km in, I thought to myself, �I�m almost at the finish line�.� I wanted to cry, but I told myself, �No no, you can�t cry until you finish this�. As soon as I crossed the finish line, I started to sob.

10km from the start, I was en route through Shiba Park and Ishikawa Rika-chan (former member of Morning Musume with Yoshizawa) was there cheering for me. She was waving a Maradona flag for some reason, because she had just returned home from work in Argentina. That made me really happy.

Afterwards, around 35km in, I was crossing over Tsukuba Bridge and Q-chan (relative of Sydney Olympics female marathon gold medalist,�Takahashi Naoko) ran up from behind me and said, �Yossi~ You can do it�. I was able to run thanks to everyone�s support.

I was supposed to do my first full marathon last September at the Sydney Marathon, but when I was there, I got lower back pain and couldn�t complete it. For this marathon, even though I did around a 100k pace per month for training, I ended up injuring my right leg earlier this February. However, I never once thought about quitting. Around 25km in, my leg started to hurt, but I regretted Sydney so much that I had to take my revenge and finish this race.

Hereafter, I want to appear at marathons like Honolulu and New York every year. For the next Tokyo Marathon, I mostly want to make sure my leg doesn�t hurt and I want to beat my time from this year: 6 hours, 46 minutes, and 1 second.