London Olympian and 2:07:48 marathoner Arata Fujiwara's new book "The Future of the Marathon," a series of conversations with university professors Shigeo Ito and Tetsuro Yamanishi on what awaits the sport of marathoning over the next twenty years, is out this month. Edited by JRN associate editor Mika Tokairin and published in Japanese by Runners, it is available here for ¥1050 per copy.
With renewed confidence, Japan's Olympic marathon team will face the total 438 m elevation difference hills of Paris this summer. The members of the women's and men's marathon teams for August's Paris Olympics appeared at a press conference in Tokyo on Mar. 25 in conjunction with the Japan Marathon Championship Series III (JMC) awards gala. Women's Olympic trials winner Yuka Suzuki (Daiichi Seimei) said she was riding a wave of motivation in the wake of the new women's national record. When she watched Honami Maeda (Tenmaya) set the record at January's Osaka International Women's Marathon on TV, Suzuki said she was, "absolutely stunned." Her coach Sachiko Yamashita told her afterward, "When someone breaks the NR, things change," and Suzuki found herself saying, "I want to take my shot." After training for a great run in Paris, she said, "I definitely want to break the NR in one of my marathons after that." Mao
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