Okinawa Yanbaru Ultra Camps

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Uruma-shi, Okinawa
Okinawa Yanbaru Ultra Camps

Run your first 100 km ultra. Okinawa, Japan. Nov-Feb. Coached by a 14-year ultra veteran.

23/07/2026

Found this on Oodomari Beach, Ikei Island. Picked it up, stood it in the sand, took the photo.

A bottle completely encrusted with barnacles — it had been in the sea for a long time before washing up here. Still standing. Still intact.

I don't know where it came from or how long it was out there. But something about it felt right for the last post of the season.

Whatever you've been putting off — the first ultra, the big race, the thing that scares you — the time is now. Inquiries close July 31.

Send me a message at [email protected] or use the form — link in bio.

18/07/2026

The Beach of Sosu. Exactly on the 100 km route.

Storm clearing. Sun breaking through. Rainbow over the sea stacks. I stopped, took the photo, stood there for a moment.

This is one of the places we pass on Day 6. I'll be here with the camp participants — running through it, not just looking at it from a car window. That's the difference.

A few spots left for October. Link in bio. Link in bio.

16/07/2026

This is not a beach. Not a forest. Not a running route.

Gyokusendo — one of the largest cave systems in Japan. Blue underground pools, stalactites that took thousands of years to form, complete silence except for dripping water.

I went here with my family on a rest day. Okinawa keeps surprising you like this. You come for the running and end up somewhere completely unexpected.

That's the island. There's more to it than anyone tells you.

Seven nights here in October. Running, coaching, and whatever else the island decides to show you. Details in bio.

11/07/2026

The sign still says Spool of Time.

This abandoned souvenir shop sits right at the start of the 100 km route — at the Ogimi Village observation deck, where Day 6 begins. I noticed it while scouting the course. Stopped. Stood in the entrance for a while.

There's something about an abandoned place that makes you think about time differently. About what you're doing with yours. About whether the thing you keep putting off — the race, the challenge, the hard thing — is worth attempting before it's too late.

The 100 km starts just outside this door. I thought that was worth noting.

If that thing you keep putting off is your first ultra — October is when I'm running this route with a small group. Details in bio.

09/07/2026

February. Last evening before flying home.

Three months on this island. I stood on the shore and watched the sun go down and thought — I'll be back.

Okinawa does that to you. It's not just the running. It's the light, the pace, the feeling that time moves differently here.

I'm coming back in October. This time with a small group of marathon runners who want to find out what 100 km feels like.

Camp opens October. Link in bio.

If you're a marathon runner thinking about ultra distance — check the details. Spots are limited to 5 per camp.

04/07/2026

After a long training run. Shoes off. Ikei Beach.

On sunny days the water is warm enough to swim. Some afternoons during camp that's exactly what happens — a hard morning run, then this. Feet in the sand, nothing to do, nowhere to be.

Recovery is where the adaptation happens. The run breaks you down. The rest builds you back stronger. Most amateur runners get the first part right and skip the second.

Don't skip this.

02/07/2026

Fukuji Dam, deep inside Yanbaru. December.

A single pine tree above the reservoir. No sound except wind and water. The forest rolls in every direction as far as you can see.

This is the interior of the island — the part most visitors never reach. During camp we run roads that cut through this landscape. It looks nothing like what people expect when they think of Okinawa.

That's exactly why it works.

27/06/2026

Shuri Castle. Naha, Okinawa.

The Ryukyu Kingdom ruled these islands for centuries before Japan absorbed them. The castle was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt. It burned down again in 2019. They're rebuilding it again now.

I came here with my family on a day off. Stood on these walls with a shisa lion looking out over the city and thought about how many people had stood in roughly the same spot, looking at roughly the same view, thinking about what comes next.

Ultra running is a small thing by comparison. But the instinct is the same.

25/06/2026

End of day. American Village, Okinawa.

The sun drops fast here. One moment it's golden hour, the next it's gone. I learned to stop what I was doing and watch it properly.

Three months in Okinawa does that to you. Slows you down in the right ways. Makes you notice things you'd normally walk past.

Recovery is part of training. So is this.

20/06/2026

Before the start of the Okinawa Crazy Survival Run. November 2025.

450 km around the entire island of Okinawa. Hydration vest loaded. Shoes laced. That particular stillness before something very long begins.

I've been doing this since 2012. Norseman. Badwater. Gobi. Spartathlon. The gear changes. The rituals don't.

If you're a marathon runner thinking about your first 100 km — this is the same feeling, just at a different scale. The preparation looks the same. Consistent. Patient. One step at a time.

That's what I teach.

住所

Hamahiga Island
Uruma-shi, Okinawa

ウェブサイト

http://www.okinawaultra.run/

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