The last big women’s race of championship ekiden season, the Kitakyushu Women’s Invitational Ekiden saw 8 corporate teams square off against 19 of the top high school teams in the country over a 27.2 km race. For corporate leaguers that was divided into 5 legs, with the final leg, 10.4 km, split into two legs for the high school teams.Kairi Ikeno put National High School Ekiden 8th-placer Suma
In a lot of ways this was one of the more interesting races in National Men’s Ekiden history. 2 of the country’s current top high schoolers, Fukushima’s Yota Mashiko and Hyogo’s Haruki Niizuma, made sure the race got off right with a CR-pace attack from the beginning. Everyone went with them, but it quickly shook down to the 2 of them and Miyagi’s Hiroto Suzuki, a relatively unknown factor.
A quick reset for the backs of your legs
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Laura Hesketh and Harry Sinclair ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this week (Saturday 17 January 2026). After over 300 parkruns were cancelled last weekend due to Storm Goretti, service returned to normal this week. Those out to complete a 5k at 09:00 on Saturday included Laura Hesketh and Harry Sinclair, who top […]
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Keely Hodgkinson will make a much-anticipated return to the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais on Thursday 19 February. A lot has happened since Keely Hodgkinson last competed indoors. That is understandable, given over 1,000 days have passed (1,048 at the time of writing, to be precise). The long-awaited return of the Olympic Champion to the indoor oval […]
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