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Yoshitomi Breaks Fukuoka Marathon Course Record by Over 7 Minutes



The 2018 Fukuoka Marathon took place Nov. 11 on a course from downtown Fukuoka to Itoshima. In the women's race winner Hiroko Yoshitomi (Memolead) ran 2:30:09, taking 7:01 off the course record and 7 seconds off her PB. Surprised and elated, she told reporters, "I never thought I'd run this kind of time here!"

Coming in the early part of the marathon season, Yoshitomi said, "This race was mostly about confirming my condition. I wasn't thinking about running a PB." Until 5 km she was running slower than the kind of pace that would make her tired in training. Mid-race she came across one of her regular training partners, Hiroaki Iwanaga (GGRC Kumamoto) and thought to herself, "If you run with him you might be able to just break 2:30." Never slowing down all the way until the end, Yoshitomi's run turned out what she called "unexpectedly" well.

Yoshitomi will run the 4th Saitama International Marathon on Dec. 9 as part of its invited elite field, a race where she will have the chance to qualify for the 2020 Olympic trials. "I'll be running two other races before then," Yoshitomi said. "I want to show up there in the best shape I can."

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