January’s Hakone Ekiden has a big impact on the shape of the fall season for Japanese collegiate men. The top 10 teams at Hakone run this past Monday’s Izumo Ekiden, where 6 runners per team run an average of 7.5 km. 11th-place and lower run Saturday’s Yosenkai, the half marathon used to fill the 10 remaining slots in the Hakone field and the lineup of the select team made up of top-placing
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