by Brett Larner Enjoying ideal weather conditions along with most of the rest of the country, the 34th Kanagawa Half Marathon saw one of the fastest winning times in its history. Running alone through much of the race, sophomore Ikki Takeuchi rode the momentum of Aoyama Gakuin University 's best-ever 5th-place finish at last month's Hakone Ekiden to win by a margin of 40 seconds in 1:03:25, one of the fastest winning times in Kanagawa history and nearly a minute faster than team ace Takehiro Deki 's winning time last year. Senshu University 's Shunsuke Miyasaka won out in a tightly-grouped pack race for 2nd in 1:04:05, with Takeuchi's teammate Yuki Kawasaki 3rd in 1:04:12. In the men's 10 km, Shoin University leader Aritaka Kajiwara won in a relatively conservative 30:10 over Kokugakuin University 's Fumihiro Miyake . 2012 Kanagawa Half Marathon Yokohama, 2/5/12 Men's Half Marathon 1. Ikki Takeuchi (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) -...
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