{"id":672902,"date":"2026-11-02T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672902\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T18:30:13","slug":"lazy-running-becomes-fresh-way-for-tokyo-runners-to-build-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672902\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lazy\u2019 running becomes fresh way for Tokyo runners to build community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a sun-drenched morning in Tokyo\u2019s Nakameguro district, a group of runners gather, form a circle as they stretch and respond to a crucial ice-breaking question for any runner: What is the best post-run indulgence? (Coffee, beer and smoothies are popular picks).<\/p>\n<p>The group is called the Meguro River Lazy Runners, although that\u2019s a bit of a misnomer for people who may be casual runners but are nonetheless getting their cardio in at an early hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not training for a marathon. \u2026 It\u2019s very casual,\u201d says Alice Gregg who formed the group around three years ago after sampling other running clubs across the city and finding many to be intensive, training-focused and \u201cquite hardcore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a sun-drenched morning in Tokyo\u2019s Nakameguro district, a group of runners gather, form a circle as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1348,8916,499,103,61,60,106838,6627],"class_list":["post-672902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-exercise","tag-expats","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jogging","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}