It seemed at the time that last year’s Hakone Ekiden had to have been a peak of some kind, with 4 new course records between Hakone’s 10 stages, a new Day Two CR, a new overall CR, and all-time top 3 performances on 5 other stages and the Day One course. But this year went even higher.5 stages, both Day One and Day Two, and the overall course had their records broken, 3 of the stages that didn’t
Following Aoyama Gakuin University’s scoring its second Hakone Ekiden threepeat, 4th-year Asahi Kuroda was awarded Hakone’s MVP and Kanakuri Cup. The MVP award goes to the runner who made the biggest individual contribution to the winning team’s success, with the Kanakuri Cup going to the outstanding overall individual performance of the race, as decided by a vote among coaches of the
No-nonsense moves for runners to finally make yoga stick
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Belgian runner Jana Van Lent has broken the European Record for 10k held by Eilish McColgan. Jana Van Lent has run an impressive 30:09 at the Prom Classic 10km in Nice this morning (Sunday 4 January). Subject to ratification, that improves the European Record held by Eilish McColgan by ten seconds. Eilish ran 30:19 at […]
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Innes FitzGerald and Jack Kavanagh ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this week (Thursday 1 & Saturday 3 January 2026). What is better than the opportunity to do two parkruns in 48 hours? Getting to do so twice in as many weeks! The cold weather and icy conditions meant over 300 parkruns were […]
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