Beginning this week I'll be contributing to the Runnerville Weekly series of podcasts. I will mostly be talking about different aspects of Japanese distance running, unsurprisingly.
Less than five months since the 2023 10000 m National Championships went down at the 2021 Olympic stadium in Tokyo, the 2024 edition happens Friday at Shizuoka's Ecopa Stadium, with NHK broadcasting it live starting at 19:25 local time. Doubling up on Nationals like this lets Japanese athletes double dip on placing points to try to get into the Paris Olympics on rankings. But between the number of people who've hit the 30:40.00 women's standard and 27:00.00 men's standard and the lopsided eight spots given away to top placers at World XC, there are only four women's spots and three men's available via rankings. Of those, three of the four women's spots and two of the three men's spots are currently occupied by top placers at December's 2023 Nationals, Ririka Hironaka , Haruka Kokai and Rino Goshima for women and Ren Tazawa and Tomoki Ota for men. The 2023 Nationals did get close to the standards, with Hironaka leading the top four women under
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Good luck!
Ryano
I'd like to let you guys know that the Borneo International Marathon will be held on October 12th 2008 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
It is the first marathon to be held in Sabah in over 20 years and is currently the only marathon to be organized in Borneo for this year.
For more info please visit www.borneomarathon.com or email me at info@borneomarathon.com
Cheers and have a great week ahead
Best,
Shan Sandhu
Event Coordinator