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Chesang Wins Osaka Women’s Marathon in 2:19:31, Yada Drops 2:19:57 Debut NR

This year’s Osaka International Women’s Marathon was a race run with a high level of methodicalness, starting slower than the planned 3:19/km but ramping up until the lead pack was skimming around the 2:20:15-30 projected finish level. After hitting halfway in 1:10:13 with a group of 6, by 25 km only 4 were left up front, sub-2:19 runners Workenesh Edesa, Stella Chesang and Bedatu Hirpa, and the

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Nobeoka Nishi Nippon Marathon Elite Field

The Nobeoka Nishi Nippon Marathon is the most overlooked part of Japan’s late winter marathon season, far from the nearest airports in the Asahi Kasei corporate team’s remote hometown of Nobeoka, Miyazaki. Traditionally it’s a race for people debuting or at the end of their career, but with Beppu-Oita, Osaka and Tokyo all catering to way faster times it’s also now the best choice in the season