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.
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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