Ehime Marathon Eve

　　This is the Ehime Marathon Eve and I recalled the days over the course of the past year. When I was seeing the scene of the finish of the Ehime Marathon last year tomorrow, I made up my mind to join next year's marathon. It was lots of runners' beaming smiles to give me a push to take up jogging. I've trained myself to run longer by expanding the running distance from 2 to 3 km to 40km bit by bit.
　　It has turned 9 o'clock. I'll wake up at 5 o'clock tomorrow. Better be going to bed. One of the pictures shows the marathon suit that I'll wear tomorrow!

(Vocabulary)
beam にっこりほほえむ, (喜びなどで) 顔を輝かす
beam at sb/sth ＜…＞に向かってにっこりほほえむ
beam with pride/pleasure/excitement  得意そうに［喜びに，興奮で］顔が輝く
Connie beamed with pride as her name was read out. 自分の名前が読み上げられるとコニーは得意満面だった．