2011-11-24

《The North Face x Tsuyoshi Kaburaki》

The world’s number one outdoor brand The North Face® is devoted to promoting outdoor sports; supporting excellent and professional athletes from all over the world, the spirit of “Never Stop Exploring” is powerfully promoted. In 2011, The North Face is proud to invite famous Japanese trail runner Tsuyoshi Kaburaki to form a dream team with three famous Asia Pacific athletes Ryan S. Blair, Stone Tsang and Klayten Smith to participate in “Oxfam Trailwalker 2011” in Hong Kong. Striving for innovation and exploration, The North Face® is the world’s number one outdoor brand providing rock climbers, hikers, extreme skiers, endurance runners, and explorers with apparel of the ultimate fit and function.
Though it is Tsuyoshi Kaburaki’s first time participating in the Hong Kong competition, he is one of the top trail runners in the world; Tsuyoshi Kaburaki has received awards in many international competitions including 3rd place in The North Face® 50 Miles Endurance Challenge 2008 and Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 2009, 2nd place in Western States 100 and was the champion of The North Face® 100 in Beijing. Trail running emphasizes endurance, it requires a strong body, speed and balance training, and most importantly, strong will and good mental determination. Supported by his own strong will, Tsuyoshi Kaburaki has participated in several competitions over the past ten years, whose spirit is a perfect reflection of The North Face® mantra, “Never Stop Exploring”; The North Face® & Tsuyoshi Kaburaki is the dream team of trail running. Kaburaki usually runs in solo races so there will be some new experiences for him racing as part of our team as well.
  


M: mylifestylenews
K: Tsuyoshi Kaburaki

M: What is the most challenging obstacle for trail running?
K: It is about endurance and also body movement and balancing while you run on trail as it it unlike the normal surface that is so straight forward. You must know how to look about your knees, body twist and instant implementation to the surface and situation.

M: Is weather is main criteria for trail running?
K: It certainly is, say for example in Japan, the temperature on the hills/mountain is so much different from the ground, your body reacts to the heat and cool weather changes instantly. It also determine how you were trained to fit in to different weather.

M: Is there a trail in this world that you would like to run?
K: I guess I would like to go Africa mainly because it is not only scenic but also I like to feel how it is like when you run a  piece of vast land where there isn't any one close by. That could be interesting to me.

*Special Thanks to ec square PR @ the interview arrangement.

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