Beginning in Feb., 2010, Japan Running News will introduce its new JRNPremium monthly subscription series of original in-depth and personal interviews with Japanese and Japan-based distance runners, coaches and others involved in the Japanese long-distance running industry. Get a look into a previously-closed world as you read about training, life as a professional jitsugyodan athlete or as a runner in the toughest university system in the world, and the personal sides of those who until now may have been little more than a name next to a time, if even that. You won't find interviews with most of these people anywhere else. In the first half of 2010 JRNPremium will feature original interviews with:
$30 U.S. gets you access to the complete 2010 set of JRNPremium interviews, with individual interviews available for $6 each. To subscribe please click here.
- Arata Fujiwara, the man who came from nowhere with a 2:08:40 at the 2008 Tokyo Marathon, crashed and burned at the 2009 World Championships, and dreams of doing things his own way.
- Takeyuki Nakayama, anger-fueled former 10000 m and marathon national record holder, twice 4th in the Olympic marathon, both a vocal opponent of the Japanese system and its greatest anti-hero.
- Kiyoko Shimahara, a veteran with top-5 finishes in Boston and Chicago who last fall came back from a three-year slump with three sub-2:30's in less than four months and now hopes for the Boston crown.
- Stephen Mayaka, the first Kenyan high school runner in Japan and now the head coach of a Japanese university team and mentor to Samuel Wanjiru, Martin Mathathi, Gideon Ngatuny and others.
- Eiji Kobayashi, a young high school coach who like thousands of others sacrificed his own high school and university years for the dream of Hakone Ekiden glory.
$30 U.S. gets you access to the complete 2010 set of JRNPremium interviews, with individual interviews available for $6 each. To subscribe please click here.
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