Kuroda Conquers the Mountain to Give Aoyama Gakuin the Hakone Ekiden Day One CR Again
After a wild New Year Ekiden corporate men’s national championships yesterday that saw new CR on 6 of the race’s 7 stages and a 7-second miss on the one that wasn’t broken, Day One of the 102nd Hakone Ekiden more than lived up to what the pros had done 24 hours earlier.Only one runner, Chuo University’s Yamato Yoshii in 2022, had ever broken 61 minutes for the 21.3 km First Stage, but when Chuo’s
