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Adane Leads Top 4 Under CR, Kondo 2:05:39 Debut, Mekasha Defends at Osaka Marathon

photos © 2025 Victor Sailer/PhotoRun, all rights reservedIt was a bit too cold and windy for really fast times and snow started falling over the last quarter of the race, but that didn’t stop the top 4 men at the Osaka Marathon from going under the course record. A 1:02:29 first half kept at least 16 men together with the 2:04:56 Japanese national record in sight, among them NR holder Kengo

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10 fastest UK parkrun times on 22nd February (2025)

Hannah Irwin and Ronnie Richmond ran the fastest parkrun times in the UK this week (Saturday 22nd  February) Our weekly parkrun top ten is sponsored by the Coggiola Endurance Centre, a residential coaching and performance facility in the Italian Alps. Follow on Instagram for more updates in the new future.  Hannah Irwin, once a regular […]

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Osaka Marathon Preview

The Osaka Marathon is Monday, with a live ad-free national broadcast starting at 9:00 a.m. local time on NHK that you’ll probably need a VPN to pick up online. No word yet on live results, but maybe try the separate elite field site. We’ll post a link if something surfaces, and whatever we can from on the ground in Osaka.Anyway, there are some pretty good story lines this time around. Last year

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Miura and Kawaguchi Win Senior National XC Championships Titles

Japan’s National Cross Country Championships happened Saturday in Fukuoka, maybe the earliest selection race in the world for next January’s World XC Championships in Florida.The senior men’s 10 km lived up to the hype with a 4-way race between 3000 m SC NR holder Ryuji Miura, 10000 m NR holder Kazuya Shiojiri, sub-28 man Ryuto Igawa and Hakone Ekiden downhill specialist Aoi Ito. It came down to