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Thanks to all staff-members for joining yesterdays meeting, I have never been as confident about a race as this time, we will have a wonderful event!

A special welcome to our guest from Cambodia, 13-year-old Pascal Kao, son of Vannarin Kao, organizer of the Phnom Penh International Halfmarathon (behind the RIT banner).

And thanks to our host,…

On March 10., I ran my first half in two years, and succeeded in making the top-ten. Initially, the result showed me in 13th position, but it seems they caught some cheats. My time was 1:36:07, not bad on a hot and humid morning. Men's and Women's divisions were won by Germans, with Joerg Heiner beating Cambodian record-holder Hem Bunting by about 20 seconds to finish in…

Since yesterday, yours truly is officially a university coach!! And all members of this website are invited to assist! More soon on this page!…

Again, in front of the TV, watching others run, but in the afternoon, it will be my turn!

Impressive performance by the two African students on the second leg, even if Nihon University took the lead only for a moment thanks to Benjamin's superhuman effort, just to fall back to 10. on the next leg. From then, it looked like Toyo Uni would safely win todays outbound race, but on the last leg, they were passed by the University for Physical Education and Waseda. Great effort by Hattori…

A typical Japanese New Year will always contain two things: Rice cake and Ekiden.

The corporate Ekiden in Gunma on Jan. 1., and the two legs of the Hakone Ekiden (pitching the leading universities against each other) on Jan. 2. and 3..

There are many good sites that feature the races, so I will not do this here. But I wonder if our members in other countries know what the worst thing in an Ekiden is? It is the 'white sash'! If a team does not connect because…

A good time was had at this year's Turtle Marathon run along the Arakawa near Kita-Senju. Noone of us ran really hard, as it was a bit hot, but we are very grateful to the organizer for inviting us again. And Alistair and myself found a nice Tex-Mex place on the way back to the station that actually had two seats left for us! See you again next year!…

Thanks to all runners and volunteers for a great day! More soon on this site!

Sorry that we did not have a lottery and also gave up on the finisher cards this time, resources are limited...

皆さんに、お疲れ様でした！近いうちに写真とビデオ載せます。抽選会と完走証がなくなりましたことについて、お詫びを申し上げます。…

結果は下のPDFを見てください。一部の参加者のデータに読み取りのエラーが発生しました。結果を読み取れてない参加者に、お詫びを申し上げます。

stc-20120624-5k.pdf

stc-20120624-5k-pk.pdf…

Today's Kamogawaecomarathon was blessed by good weather and happy people! Thanks to everybody!

きょうの第二回の鴨川エコマラソンは天気と元気に恵まれて、楽しいイベントでした！皆さんに、ありがとうございました！

Pictures will be uploaded within a few days.

写真は今週中にアップします、楽しみにしてください！…

Racing in the Footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia (8 May 2012, Hong Kong) — A cast of 150 competitors from 38 countries will be gathering in Jordan’s legendary Wadi Rum this weekend for the highly anticipated RacingThePlanet: Jordan 2012, also known as the “roving race.” The race begins on 13 May at the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a rock formation made famous by…

リンク:　ビデオ:　　男子 -  女子 - エコライブ - more...…

As I have decided to watch the race on TV, I may as well write about how the top-runners are doing. In the early stages, a group of eight runners with Haile Gebresselassi and Japanese runner Masakazu Fujiwara followed the 2:58/k pacemakers, which actually slowed down to 3:02 soon. They reached 10k in 29:54, about the same time the last runners crossed the start…

Today a group of runners ran the annual Shibuya Ekiden in Yoyogi Park. I ran on the Namban Rengo Masters team, having moved up from a position as a substitute, and not feeling very comfortable about it. However, thanks to my teammate's efforts, we finished in 2nd, beaten only by the Shibuya triathletes, and ahead of our nemesis, the…

Frank Horwill MBE passed away at age 84 on 1 January.  He was one of the UK's finest coaches and was the inspiration behind some of the nasty sessions we do (so now you know who to blame...).

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A great time was had by all at Takao this year, with Yoshi Ishikawa winning his age-group, Masako just out of the money in fourth after being passed by two other women on the downhill, and Christophe finishing in a remarkable 2h01 on the longer 18k course. Working on the video now, and more pics to be uploaded shortly!…

A lot of fun for a small race! Thanks to all the volunteers and runners for taking part in this event. It was a good practice for all of us, and we are confident to have an even bigger Kamogawa Marathon in spring!

Here are the results for the Kamogawa Eco 5k:

今日の5kの結果：

Nr. - time

Men

1 - 38 - 16:45/蔭地和成

2 - 57 - 17:50/堀野正雄

3 -…

Today, a bigger group of runners ran the Turtle half-marathon cum 10k at Arakawa River near Kita-Senju. This is a very big race, about 16000 runners, 12000 in the half, 4000 in the 10k.

As some of us went there by themselves, I could not get everybody's results, so forgive me if I start  with my own race, the 10k. My target was a 4min/k pace, so Takashi Nobukiyo, our…

Yesterday, we had a beautiful day at Lake Saiko, with a course record for the men in 32:45 set by Onuma-san! Invitational runner Gerard Robb placed 4th in 34:46.

In the women's division, our flying Finn Saara Pekkarinen flew away from her competitors in 37:15, of course, this is also a course record, receiving a pair of Brooks shoes, an invitation to the Tengu Trails…