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Nobeoka Nishi Nippon Marathon Elite Field

The Nobeoka Nishi Nippon Marathon is the most overlooked part of Japan’s late winter marathon season, far from the nearest airports in the Asahi Kasei corporate team’s remote hometown of Nobeoka, Miyazaki. Traditionally it’s a race for people debuting or at the end of their career, but with Beppu-Oita, Osaka and Tokyo all catering to way faster times it’s also now the best choice in the season

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Hirayama Breaks Osaka Half CR, Martinez Set Puerto Rican NR

The Osaka Half Marathon took another big step up the domestic half marathon rankings from a mass-participation race run alongside the Osaka International Women’s Marathon to one of the country’s top-tier races.In the women’s race, the debuting Jecinta Nyokabi (Denso) went out fast, only to be run down by veteran Yumi Yoshikawa (Uniqlo) by 10 km. Nyokabi faded to 6th in 1:10:41, but Yoshikawa