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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

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parkrun ‘British Record’ for Innes FitzGerald

Innes FitzGerald has run the fastest ever parkrun by a British female. We are less than twenty four hours into 2026, but the year has already begun with a bang. Innes FitzGerald has run the fastest ever parkrun by a British female athlete. She joined the (record attendance) at Exmouth parkrun and recorded 15:27. It […]

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2026 New Year Ekiden Preview

After a day off for New Year’s Eve, the peak of championship ekiden season rolls on first thing on Jan. 1 with the 70th edition of the New Year Ekiden corporate men’s national championship race. The top 40 teams in the country race 100.0 km in 7 legs in Gunma, starting at 9:15 a.m. sharp on New Year’s Day. Unedited raw camera feeds from the live broadcast will be streamed live on Youtube above