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2023 Champion Kamimura Gakuen Girls Ready for Sunday’s National High School Ekiden

Ahead of the Dec. 22 National High School Ekiden in Kyoto, the 2023 national champion Kamimura Gakuen H.S. girls held an open practice session for the media. 2023 was Kamimura Gakuen’s only 2nd national title ever. Can it make it two in a row?The Kamimura Gakuen girls won the Nov. 2 Kagoshima Prefecture High School Ekiden, its 9th-straight win and 31st victory overall in the prefectural

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12 Days of 5Ks: Spotlight on Morgan Sauer

By: Greg Koch​​Sometimes you come to a fork in the road with two clear and obvious paths. Then there are those rare individuals who find a third path—the artists, the innovators. That’s exactly how I’d describe Morgan Sauer, Marketing and Community Engagement Manager at 605 Running Company. Today, Morgan didn’t just join me for a 5K; she redefined what running in Sioux Falls could look like by taking me on paths I had never considered running before.This crea […]

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Saku Chosei Going for Its First Repeat Win at National High School Ekiden

Last year Nagano’s Saku Chosei H.S. won the National High School Ekiden boys’ race for the first time in 6 years, its third time winning the national title. Ahead of its attempt to take its first-ever repeat win at this year’s race in Kyoto on Dec. 22, on the day the school held an open practice session for the media it was sunny but windy at times, an unusually warm 17˚.Last year Saku Chosei won