Hakone Ekiden 2012

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 on the uphill!

Unfortunately, the runners of Josai and Chuo did not finish due to dehydration, well, the conditions looked pretty tough.

Finshed my 23k, and now got the results:

All times given in arrival time at the goal.

1. Nittaidai -             13:40:15

2. Waseda -              13:42:50

3. Toyo -                   13:42:54

4. Meiji -                   13:44:37

5. Hosei -                  13:45:39

6. Aoyama Gakuin -  13:46:27

7. Teikyo -                 13:46:27

8. Juntendo -             13:46:29

9. Komazawa -           13:47:12

10. Kanto Mix -          13:47:52

11. Yamanashi -          13:48:09

12. Daito Bunka -      13:48:46

13. Chuo -                 13:50:05

14. Kokugakuin -       13:53:03

15. Nihon -                13:54:31

16. Jobu -                  13:58:02

17. Tokyo Nodai -      13:59:24

18. Kanagawa -          14:00:03

Not much changed on the way back to Tokyo, Komazawa University put in the strongest performance of the day, but they were too far back and finished third. An oddity, one of the runners belonging to the teams who dnf'd the day before, but were allowed to run outside the official competition, ran faster than anybody else in his leg ... a pity.

1. Nittadai -                13:33:11
2. Toyo -                     13:38:05
3. Komazawa -            13:39:08
4. Teikyo -                  13:41:24
5. Waseda -                13:41:24
6. Juntendo -              13:44:28
7. Meiji -                    13:44:59
8. Aoyama -                13:45:44
9. Hosei -                   13:46:25
10. Chuo -                  13:47:19
11. Kanagawa -           13:47:33
12. Yamanashi -          13:48:09
13. Josai -                   13:49:13
14. Tokyo Nodai -       13:49:49
15. Kokugakuin -        13:50:25
16. Daito Bunka -        13:50:31
17. Nihon -                  13:50:52
18. Chuo -                   13:51:19
19. Kanto Mix -            13:51:35
20. Jobu -                     13:54:42