A day after the qualifying race for January’s Hakone Ekiden, the corporate leagues held their qualifying race for November’s Queens Ekiden national championship. 30 teams raced the 6-stage, 42.195 km Princess Ekiden to try for the 16 spots left alongside the 8 auto-qualifiers from last year’s Queens Ekiden.After a slow start Uniqlo moved up to take the win thanks to a stage win from Paris
Amos Kurgat and Loice Chemnung soloed new course records to win Sunday’s Tokyo Legacy Half Marathon, with Paralympians Tomoki Suzuki and Wakako Tsuchida winning the wheelchair races.A late addition to the field, Kurgat took off and immediately left it behind, going through 10 km in 27:48 and never looking back. Although he slowed on the uphill back up to Tokyo’s National Stadium in the last 5 km,
Kevin Smith of Mississauga cruised to a 55+ national half-marathon record only a few weeks after completing the Berlin Marathon
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With high humidity, mostly sunny skies and temps reported as high as 30˚ it was just too hot for fast times at the Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai, the half marathon qualifying race for January’s 101st Hakone Ekiden. Individual winner and last year’s 1:00:16 CR setter Shadrack Kipkemei from Nihon University and runner-up Brian Kipyegon of Yamanashi Gakuin University lasting the whole way on sub-1:01
For this mom of two, Run Your Way means running when and how she can
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