Currently the #10-ranked Japanese man in the marathon with the fastest-ever domestic time at the elite Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon, Tsubasa Ichiyama (Sunbelx) made his international debut at Sunday's Copenhagen Marathon , literally an international debut as it was his first time outside the country. Ichiyama hoped to be in contention to break the 2:08:23 CR and go for the win, and with cool and breezy conditions ran easy in the lead group through 30 km. But something ate away at almost everyone as time went by, several people in the lead men's and women's groups saying humidity, and past 30 km Ichiyama fell off. Falling as low as 9th, he rallied after 40 km to finish 8th in 2:13:07. "It was different than in Japanese races," he said. "I'm used to bigger packs and more even pacing, but this was a kind of racing I hadn't done before. There's a lot to think about. I didn't feel like I was sweating a lot, but I got really thirsty and started sk
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i hope that your training for Boston is going well.
A little unrelated to the specific post, but did you find somewhere on the net pictures of the Fukuoka Marathon that we run last December ??
I could find none, even using Japanese characters...
Hope to see you sometime in HK.
thanks and congratulation again for the blog, very interesting
Roberto
No, I haven't seen any Fukuoka pictures either. Too bad.
Best,
Brett