A watercolor painting of Tomo Morimoto and Chieko Yamasaki is featured in a new poster (see below) that the organizers of the Vienna City Marathon will sell at this year’s race to raise relief funds for the victims of Japan’s ongoing disaster. Many thanks to our friend, race director Wolfgang Konrad, for taking this initiative. Tomo and Chieko were both members of Japan’s Tenmaya team when they went 1-2 in Vienna in 2006. Chieko has since retired from her competitive running career.

The Tenmaya Department store group also has a Japanese restaurant called “Tenmaya” just off the Graben in the center of Vienna. It is just a short walk from the Staatsoper and St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Stop in and have a meal next time you are in Vienna. We are working to make the poster available at the restaurant, and will order copies to be sent to us here in Boulder, as well as to the Tenmaya team in Okayama, Japan.