Namban's Blog – January 2009 Archive (4)

Gong Hei Fat Choy

In addition to Blurmax wonderful post and pics, here the official results, hopefully an inspiration for some Japan members to go there and run. I found very few western names among the participants, maybe they are not into Chinese New Year.

Number Name Category Time Position Position

344 Wong, Tin Yau M19 0:25:11 1 1

76 Chung, Tak Lun M19 0:25:30 2 2

753 Choi, Tat Ming M35… Continue

The return leg of the Hakone Ekiden provided for a dramatic competition from the beginning, with Toyo losing the lead to Waseda at about 3k, just to regain it at 8, after the Waseda’s highly-regarded Kato obviously encountered some problems. From that point, Waseda followed Toyo with the gap between the two schools about two or three seconds. Amazingly, Kato, with a painful expression on his face, regained the lead at 19k and finished with about 20sec… Continue

This is the main event on the Japanese relay scene, even more important than yesterday's corporate ekiden. official website

As every year, the runners started in the central business district of Otemachi in Tokyo and set off to run about 110k to the hot-spring resort of Hakone. Not much excitement on the first 15k. At about 17k, Waseda University's Yasawa went ahead and build a 50m lead over a… Continue

As every year, this race was held in Gunma north of Tokyo. As opposed to the more famous Hakone Ekiden it is only a one day event featuring corporate teams, promising a bit of drama this year as favourites Konica-Minolta had been beaten by Honda in the preliminaries. The course has seven legs and is 100k long.

official… Continue