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18th Incheon International Half Marathon Incheon, South Korea, 3/25/18 click here for complete results Men 1.Reuben Narry (Kenya) 2. Jean Marie Vianney Uwajene (Rwanda) 3. Paul Kipkemoi Kipkorir (Kenya) ----- 12. Hiroki Nagayama (Japan/Waseda Univ.) - 1:06:08 13th Warsaw Half Marathon Warsaw, Poland, 3/25/18 click here for complete results Men 1. Ezrah Kiprotich Sang (Kenya) - 1:01:37 2. Mekashaw Kassa (Ethiopia) - 1:01:52 3. Hillary Kiptum Maiyo (Kenya) - 1:02:18 ----- 8. Yuki Yagi (Japan) - 1:05:03 © 2018 Brett Larner, all rights reserved

Overcoming humid conditions and competition over two minutes faster than his best, 2016 Incheon Songdo International Half Marathon winner Paul Kipkorir (Kenya) negative splitted his way to his second-straight Incheon title, winning in 1:02:32. Conditions just before the start were good, cool and breezy with light clouds. Even so, the early pace was unexpectedly slow given a field that included sub-60 men Edwin Rotich (Kenya) and Adunga Bikila (Ethiopia), Kipkorir, 2015 winner Isaac Kiplagat (Kenya) and five men with 62-minute bests including 19-year-old Japanese runner Tomoki Ota (Waseda Univ.). Running 3:01-02 per km kilometer for 5 km, a push from Kipkorir at the turnaround near 9 km was enough to shake off Ota and a few others but still took the lead pack through 10 km dead on 30:00. Over the second half the humidity rose rapidly as the cloud cover shifted to mist, and one by one the contenders in the lead pack dropped off. In the final kilometers it came to a race bet...

http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/athletics/news/p-sp-tp0-20140330-1277695.html translated and edited by Brett Larner The stars have aligned to bring the civil servant runner the perfect training situation. Ahead of September's Asian Games marathon, the Saitama Prefectural Board of Education announced on Mar. 29 that national team member Yuki Kawauchi  (27, Saitama Pref. Gov't) will be transferred from Kasukabe H.S. to his hometown Kuki H.S. at the start of the new fiscal year on April 1. Kawauchi began working for the Saitama government in 2009, and for five years he has worked as an administrative staff member at Kasukabe H.S.  With a work schedule that allowed him to train in mornings and run races on weekends, he rose at all once to the top class of Japanese marathoning.  The transfer is the first in his employment history, but at Kuki H.S. his position will be the same as his current clerical work.  Additionally, as a resident of Kuki the move will allow...