Miyazaki Rika, a 38-year-old businesswoman, has posted footage of herself training for HYROX, a race that combines 1-kilometer runs with workout stations. She shared the video on Instagram on November 4.
On July 15, Miyazaki was found guilty of evading corporate tax and other charges. The court handed her two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, meaning she will not serve the term unless she reoffends within that period.
In the November 4 post, she wrote that messages had come in after she put the training on her Stories, including one thanking her for "laughter and hope to live." She added that she herself was "10,000 percent serious." Her trainer had told her the session was "a bit dangerous," she wrote, and while she believes no one can match her spirit and guts, "I feel like spirit alone doesn't quite do it."
She also wrote that she was training in earnest but that "it doesn't look earnest in the video." Followers replied with messages urging her to be careful of injury and to keep going, with one telling her not to give up.
Earlier posts drew concern over weight loss
In a Stories update on September 5, Miyazaki said that a few months earlier she had been so thin that walking for 10 minutes was genuinely hard, and posted a photo of her gaunt frame. Comments at the time included worries that she looked thin enough to need hospital care and concern for her children should her health fail.
Miyazaki uses Instagram to post about her daily life.