http://www.hochi.co.jp/sports/feature/hakone/20170117-OHT1T50256.html
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Four runners from Hakone Ekiden champion Aoyama Gakuin University including under-20 national record holder Yuta Shimoda, a third-year at Aoyama Gakuin, completed a three-day marathon training camp in Futtsu, Chiba from Jan. 13th to 15th. Alongside them was Aritaka Kajiwara, 28, an unsponsored independent who ran the Hakone Ekiden for straight years as part of the Kanto Region Select Team while at Shoin University and who has trained with the Aoyama Gakuin ekiden team since last year.
Kajiwara quit the Press Kogyo corporate team in 2015. At December's Fukuoka International Marathon he ran a PB of 2:14:27. He now plans to run both the Feb. 5 Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon and the Mar. 5 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon. "I'll be going for 2:12 at Beppu-Oita and 2:10 at Lake Biwa," he said. Aoyama Gakuin head coach Susumu Hara commented, "We're currently taking applic…
translated by Brett Larner
Four runners from Hakone Ekiden champion Aoyama Gakuin University including under-20 national record holder Yuta Shimoda, a third-year at Aoyama Gakuin, completed a three-day marathon training camp in Futtsu, Chiba from Jan. 13th to 15th. Alongside them was Aritaka Kajiwara, 28, an unsponsored independent who ran the Hakone Ekiden for straight years as part of the Kanto Region Select Team while at Shoin University and who has trained with the Aoyama Gakuin ekiden team since last year.
Kajiwara quit the Press Kogyo corporate team in 2015. At December's Fukuoka International Marathon he ran a PB of 2:14:27. He now plans to run both the Feb. 5 Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon and the Mar. 5 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon. "I'll be going for 2:12 at Beppu-Oita and 2:10 at Lake Biwa," he said. Aoyama Gakuin head coach Susumu Hara commented, "We're currently taking applic…