Tamami-san and I raced over 2km on the track last night in Melbourne. in 36 degree heat. I managed 4th in 8.04 and Mi-chan (first women) got her 3rd PB in 7 days in 9.05. Very Interesting conditions!
Added by Jon Holmes on January 14, 2009 at 7:52am —
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Thanks to Gerard for the post in Japanese! Well, it was windy and the course was a bit difficult, so, let's hope for a bit faster times at the Kanagawa race in February! After supporting the runners I got on my "Volcano" shopping bike to ride back, fortunately, I had pumped up the tyres yesterday! Soon after getting to the river, I was passed by four Pinarello riders in identical dress. They quickly moved
away, but I suddenly decided to follow. I…
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Added by juergen wittstock on January 13, 2009 at 11:30am —
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昨日南蛮連合人達三人で第10回谷川真理ハーフマラソン走りました。あらかわ川となりに。赤羽の辺です。１０、０００人走りました。南蛮の由香、ジエラルドとジエラルドお疲れ様でした。
タイム由香１．４６
ジエラルド(オーストラリア）１．２２．３９
ジエラルド（アイルランド）TBA
Added by Gerard Robb on January 12, 2009 at 12:45pm —
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I attended the Mizuno Half Marathon 2009 ( 美津濃半馬 ) in the sightly warm morning today. Despite I was still very tire after completing 4 races in two weeks, I managed to complete the race in a moderate time of 1 hr 55…
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Added by Blurmax on January 6, 2009 at 2:23pm —
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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…
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Added by namban on January 3, 2009 at 10:00am —
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I completed the Cheung Chau RTI 10 K Race 2009 ( 第八屆 中銀 長洲元旦 環島越野賽 ) in the sightly cool morning today. Due to frequent races lately, I could only complete the race in a moderate slow time of 57 mins. I could not help from walking at those long uphill routes which making my speed much slower.
I was so happy to meet so many runners… Continue
Added by Blurmax on January 2, 2009 at 11:44pm —
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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…
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Added by namban on January 2, 2009 at 9:30am —
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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.
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Added by namban on January 1, 2009 at 9:00am —
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See
official website for a map of the course.
Runners lined up in Tsukuba Central Park, with six-time-winner Ritsumeikan University from Kyoto the favourite.
A group of runners reached the first hand-off after 5k, with Ritsumeikan's Risa Takenaka a close second to Kyoto Sangyo University's Itoh, who finished in 16:06.
Kyoto Sangyo lead into the second 3k leg, followed by Ritsumeikan and three more runners. On the…
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Added by namban on December 23, 2008 at 12:00pm —
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Frank-Arnaud Mehl was the one bright spot on an otherwise underperforming Namban team, finishing the 10k in a PB of 38:18. An out-of-shape Mutsumi ran 48:24, Juergen was happy with a 39:41, not too bad after recovering from a long-lasting cold.
Unfortunately, Kiki and Daniel had to cancel, so the team was a bit small this year...
Added by juergen wittstock on December 22, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Completed the Hong Kong 15 Km Challenge race ( 香港15公里挑戰賽2008 ] in a moderate slow time of 1 hr 23 mins+ in the slightly cool morning today.
I was very happy to meet so many runners friends including Sagi, Randy, Loban, Wilson, Gills, LEUNG , Running Sue and… Continue
Added by Blurmax on December 21, 2008 at 8:00pm —
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On Dec. 17., in heavy rain, Namban Rengo as usually had the biggest group on an otherwise almost deserted track. One reason may have been Renard's presence, as he had moved to South Africa a few months ago and was just back for one track work-out! Good to see you again, Renard!
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Added by juergen wittstock on December 18, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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I wore my new Adizero CS for the first time to join my first Mizuno Shek Mun 10 K Race ( 美津濃第二屆石門 10公里賽 ) in the early morning today. I finally managed to complete the race in an easy pace of 48 mins+ which was already quite a good time to me.
I was very happy to meet so many runners friends from Leisure Runners, hkrunners.com… Continue
Added by Blurmax on December 9, 2008 at 11:56pm —
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I run Naha Marathon in Okinawa on 7th Dec.
Naha marathon is 2nd largest marathon in Japan. There are over 30000
entry. Last Sunday was a good sunny day. Nice weather for marathon.
My finish time was 2:53:16. I think it was good time for me.
Because,the course was very tough. It was not easy to run by even pace.
It was almost flat by 10km point. 10km to 20km was going up to 90m.
20km to 25km was down hill. 25km to 37km was almost flat. But,the soft
wind was…
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Added by Kiyo Yoshida on December 9, 2008 at 10:52pm —
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I took part in Kwaguchi marathon .it was one of big race in Saitama.I tried to break 19' 00".
My condition was pretty good ! I could relax and concentrate while the race.So I could keep
a 3'45" pace on a flat course. Also I was following the top group still 4km potint. Last 500m
,it was hard to take breath tough I could do a last spurt. Finally I finished in 18'53".And I got
the first prize out of 300 women. I was very happy to get a gold trophy!!
Added by Eco.Marron on December 7, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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The annual Fukuoka Marathon was held as usual on the first Sunday in December. Conditions were favourable and commentators were hoping for a fast race.
A group of Japanese and international runners, mostly invitational, went through the 5k in 15:07.
15k passed at a relatively slow 45:25, with still about 15 runners in the leading pack. The runners reached the half-marathon mark in 1:04:01, with commentators speculating that the slow pace would favour Japanese runners. At this point,…
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Added by namban on December 7, 2008 at 1:00pm —
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大田原マラソン大会というとでる南蛮連合人達が多いです。今年も同じ事です。全部で三十七人ぐらいです。マラソンの後皆さんは旅館に泊まりました。旅館で和食がおいしいお風呂も良いしそれに布団は寝やすかったです。レ-スの日の晩旅館で、走るじゃなくて他の事見られました。例えばカラオケです。エドさんは最初歌いました。上手見たかったです。自分で新しい歌言葉作って歌いました。まみと由香は特別な踊る事皆さんに見せました。そしてパデイ-さんは80sの歌を歌いました。カラオケ終わった、畳部屋パティ-ル-ムに入りました。そこで皆さん遊んだり食べたり楽しみました。
つぎの明日和食朝御飯を食べたり楽しい会話をしたり、人達はちょっと走ったか散歩しました。その後車か新幹線で東京に帰りました。2008年大田原マラソン経験が良かったです。
Added by Gerard Robb on December 2, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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I took the N969 at 0510 hrs to attend the race today. I was happy to meet MJ after leaving the bus, and nice to had breakfast with MJ too. Due to lack of slep and worry of my back pain, I did not push myself hard. I managed to complete the race in 51 mins. My running shorts was completely dry after the run indeed.
I was happy to meet so… Continue
Added by Blurmax on November 25, 2008 at 11:36pm —
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I made 2 PB within this 3 days holiday. I thought they were so amazing!
On 22nd Saturday, I run 5000m of Nittaidai Time Trial.
My goal time was 17m04s41. It was 8 seconds faster than the previous PB.
On 23rd Sunday, I went to my university to take an examination.
After the examination, I moved to Nagoya.
On 24rd Monday, I run half marathon of Nagoya City Marathon.
My goal time was 1h16m57s. It was 68 seconds faster than the previous PB.
The half marathon…
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Added by Kiyo Yoshida on November 24, 2008 at 10:51pm —
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Unfortunately, our reporter was not able to secure the results of everybody, maybe due to after race (or after drinking) fatigue. Here the results of the people who were already up when he sent in his report!
Congratulations to all the members who ran PB's!
Christian is closing in on Namban's top-runners!
Ed Clease (エド) - 36．44
Christian Sommer (クリス) - 34．10pb
Gerald (ジェラルド) - 35.53
Hitomi (ひとみ)…
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Added by namban on November 24, 2008 at 11:00am —
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