“Actually, I never had a love of running,” says Tame, in an interview ahead of his marathon exploits this weekend. So, are Tame’s iRunning exploits just a happy coming together of two hobbies – running and technology? Joseph Tame – © Michael Holmes In the beginning He’s a one-man film-crew, broadcaster and marathon-runner. Throw into the mix six Energizer XP18000A batteries, which provide more than 104,000 mAh of power – “enough to recharge an iPhone about 72 times” – and you can start to imagine how much preparation, planning and expense has gone into this. And why on God’s Earth would he need that? “To demonstrate that Tokyo is safe and to promote the important work this non-profit does,” he explains. Tame will also be carrying a Safecast bGeigie Nano geiger counter, which connects to the iPhone 5.
The other is fixed on his helmet pointing outwards, but both will stream via HDMI whilst recording to the micro SD cards.
One camera is mounted to the end of a 360-degree swivel boom, which is attached to his helmet facing him. Tame has two of these LiveShell devices, covering each camera. “Now all I have to do is turn it on and it will auto-connect to the appropriate Ustream channel via my pocket WiFi unit and start the broadcast.” “The LiveShell is a real blessing – the developer is a local guy who has improved this over the past couple of years,” explains Tame. 2 x LiveShell live stream encoders: Purpose? To enable the Ustream broadcast.1 x Nikon mini boom mic, with wind guard: Purpose? Capture audio.1 x Sony Action Cam: Purpose? Capture video.1x GoPro Hero 3: Purpose? Capture video.1 x iPad mini: Purpose? Checking Twitter and Facebook – this is strapped to his wrist.
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But in 2011, Tame upped his game, building himself a fairly sophisticated social media studio featuring four iPhones, an iPad, iPod, Android phone, rotatable mounts, 3 WiFi units and a bird-feeding dish. In his inaugural full-marathon year, Tame live-streamed his run from a head-mounted iPhone, grabbing more than 13,000 viewers and attracting north of 1,000 tweets per hour.
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His first foray into organized running was the 2009 Tokyo 10km (a quarter of the full Tokyo Marathon), but he soon progressed to the full shebang, which he has completed every year since 2010. Then there’s his running art, which involves mapping out elaborate routes on Google Maps that resemble well-known ‘things’ – such as company logos or animals. It was there he met his future (Japanese) wife, Satoko, and they upped sticks and relocated to Tokyo in September 2008.įor the past five years, however, Tame has been garnering attention for his peculiar penchant for strapping gadgets to his body and broadcasting his efforts from the Tokyo Marathon to the world. Having spent a couple of years (unsuccessfully) trying to secure a work visa, he returned to the UK to enroll for a Japanese Studies degree at the University of Sheffield, eventually graduating in 2008. Hailing originally from Orcop, a rural village in Hertfordshire, England, Joseph Tame fell in love with Japan following a backpacking trip in 2001.
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