A monument has been erected at Todoroki Sanso Lodge in Higashiagatsuma, Gunma where four-time Hakone Ekiden winner Toyo University does its summer training every August. In 1991 former alumni association president Tsuneyoshi Kosuge proposed Todoroki Sanso as a training base, and it was built with the support of Mitsutake Todoroki. Ever since then summer training camps in the lush nature
To start the week Lindie Naughton brings us all the Irish endurance action and news from the weekend just gone (Wednesday 21st August, a little late due to Editor Robbie racing the Leadville 100 in Colorado). In his second race in four days, Sean Tobin (Clonmel AC) was the winner of the Cork City 10km […]
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Jornet is tackling as many Alpine 4,000m-plus peaks as he can, and you don’t want to miss a thing
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The Diamond League returns on Thursday with a visit to Lausanne. The Swiss city hosted the first Diamond League after the Tokyo Olympics and does the same following Paris, just ten days after the Olympic Games drew to a close. James Rhodes previews the middle-distance races. The historic meeting of Athletissima is no stranger to […]
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The Paris Olympics have just ended and the Paralympics are set to kick off next week on the 28th, but the focus is already shifting to the Los Angeles Olympics 4 years down the road. International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, 70, will step down from his position at the end of his term next June. The word is that IOC member Morinari Watanabe, 65, president of the International
