Maria Wong

my fav question is “why?”

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

15 Year Anniversary 🐇🐐
15 Mile Run (24km) to celebrate!

15 years ago I waited for her to catch up
10 years ago she kept up with me
5 years ago she started surpassing me on long runs & now she’s the better Marathoner

My best friend in this life & this 🌎I am forever lucky! ☺️

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

So proud of @mwmaria! 🐰

🥈Female and 🥇30-49 at Today's @suzakamarathon 10K 📈⛰️

Most きれい course, but it was painful as we climbed 📈⛰️, dropped 📉 and then climbed again 📈

My time is unofficially 39:38, split 5k 20:18 going up and 5k 19:20 going down and up 🐐

Lets eat!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Spending the night in the city! 🌃

Tomorrow, we celebrate our anniversary, going on 14 strong years! 🐇🐐

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

What an amazing day with @my_honey_M! After a fun walk in Yoyogi Park & brunch, we enjoyed a great view from the Metropolitan Building. I was so surprised when she brought us to the Tokyo 2020/@WATokyo25 exhibit!! 😀

We had the opportunity to HOLD AN OLYMPIC GOLD Medal🏅 すごい!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

¡Vamos con todo! 🐇🐐

The City of Osaka & the @osakamarathon experience have been amazing so far 👏🏼

There is the possibility of snow in the forecast, & the event may be canceled, but we will be ready to run!

Great to see @xxtoooooraxx on our shakeout this morning! Let's go! 🏯

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Last week, we served as guest speakers at @FordhamNYC's "Messaging That Makes A Difference" class!

It was surreal to recap the memories and motivation behind QDR and the Queens Marathon, we enjoyed the experience and appreciated the amazing questions from the students! 👏🏼

[c h r i s @mych3micalswift]

i think about this quote often

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Our last activity in Japan? Visiting the beautiful rabbits 🐰 at @Moff_rell!

Feeding and playing with the adorable rabbits is such a relaxing activity ☺️

Let's go home! We will be back for more rabbit activity in 2025!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

We completed our last Long Run in Japan for this trip!

2hr run 🐰🐐☺️

The Arakawa River is my favorite path to run on this earth 🌐

It goes on forever, and you're surrounded by athletes of all ages engaged in multiple sports. So peaceful yet so active.

48 houts until 🗽!

[Maria Wong @mwmaria]

@kevinamontalvo @Moff_rell Kawaii!!!

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

- Charles Dickens, from “Great Expectations”

[Maria Wong @mwmaria]

@kevinamontalvo @fubinicrafts 😂🤣

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

36! 🐐🐇🎂🎂

The 23rd & 27th of January is always special for us. We celebrate having found each other 🌐 over double the cake 🎂, good deal!

There's 128 📸 in 36 (not intentional, promise) seconds covering 18 days from our latest trip to 🇯🇵 in the reel 🎥

Here's to 2024!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

We are back home 🌐☺️ 🐇🐐

After taking a 3 month break from running to focus on school & let my body heal, I am ready to train again 🐐

Beautiful 10 mile run with Maria-san to start our Sunday 🌄

To all of our friends in Japan, もありがとうございます！ また会えますように!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Our last day in Tokyo is complete, we caught up with our friend Yu-san, who surprised us with birthday presents 🐇🥰🐐🥰!

We offered our prayers at Kanda Shrine, then enjoyed going for a ride in a swan rental and walked around the city 😊

Today was goated!
Tomorrow: 🛫 🌐🗽

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

We woke up early to start our final long run of our trip in Akabane (not far from Tokyo) and jogged past lots of runners walking to the start of a 🏁. The path along the river was full of families enjoying activities with the Tokyo skyline visible.

Ready to return in 2 days 🗽🌐

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Very happy that Maria finally reconnected with the woman she raced in Okinawa last year.

Maria and かすみ (Kasumi) finished 🥇&🥈 in their 10km 🏁 that day. We are grateful to her for showing us Hakone today!

Kasumi will make her Marathon debut at @nagoya_gowomen in March!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Happy New Year from @mwmaria and I!

Osaka was an incredible place for us to close 2023. On to Hakone to watch the @hakone_ntv!

[Kevin Montalvo @kevinamontalvo]

Timeless moments that we will never forget in the Gion district in Kyoto!

We waited until sunset 🌇 for tourists to leave, then we enjoyed walking around the historic roads of this district.