What do you remember about winning the silver medal in the 1999 World University Games half marathon?
The World University Games were a lot of fun. I led the whole way, then in the last few hundred meters I started getting dizzy and a Brazilian went by me. He beat me by about 20 seconds. Did you know that Brazilian, Dos Santos, has won New York twice and run 59 minutes for the half marathon? What? Really? That’s really good! I don’t feel so bad about losing to him then! 59 minutes is amazing. Nishida, #11, with teammate Ryosuke Fukuyama at the start of his retirement race, the 2009 Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon. How did you get onto the S&B Foods team? It was because of the name I mentioned before, Yasuyuki Watanabe. He had run for S&B, along with a lot of other runners I admired like Katsuhiko Hanada and Jun Hiratsuka, and at the time S&B had a reputation as a really strong team. The famous marathoner Toshihiko Seko was S&B’s coach, too, so I wanted to be a part of that. Could you describe Seko as a coach and as a person? He’s a great man. What should I say about him as a coach, though
