To start the week Lindie Naughton brings us all the Irish endurance action and news from the weekend just gone (Monday 2nd December). Five times Olympian Fionnuala McCormack (Kilcoole AC) not only ran a personal best but also finished 11th in the Valencia Marathon in Spain on Sunday (December 1). McCormack’s time of 2 hrs […]
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Japan-based Kenyans dominated at the revamped and improved Kumamoto Kosa Road Race across all three of its main distances. Agnes Ngetich from the Canon team got things started in the women’s 5 km, blasting a 14:48 that left Japanese NR holder Nozomi Tanaka almost 40 seconds behind. Tanaka, whose 15:25 was technically a NR, was only 10 seconds up on Nanami Watanabe, who
Two of Canada’s brightest distance running talents, Athena Andrecyk and Yemane Mulugeta came out on top in the U20 races at the 2024 Canadian XC Championships
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Yuya Yoshida winning Fukuoka in CR time was a great story, and here’s another one. Kana Kobayashi didn’t run track or ekidens in junior high, high school, or at Waseda University and just ran for fun, but after a 2:36:54 debut at last year’s Osaka International Women’s Marathon and a 2:29:44 PB there this year she got an offer from the Otsuka Seiyaku corporate team. After a good championship
