by Brett Larner Germany's Volksbank Muenster Marathon celebrates its 15th running this Sunday. Appearing with support from JRN, Japan's Shingo Igarashi (Josai Univ. Coaching Staff) and Yoshiko Sakamoto (Y.W.C.) face competitive fields from Kenya and Ethiopia. The course record setter at January's Katsuta Marathon, Igarashi scored some attention at April's Boston Marathon when he frontran the first 10 km before suffering a minor stress fracture. Muenster will be his first marathon since then, and he is optimistic of bettering his 2:13:15 best from his Katsuta win. That PB ranks him 3rd in the field, not far behind 2:12:08 man Joel Kositany (Kenya). In another class is the heavy favorite, Kenya's Duncan Koech with a 2:09:17 at the 2014 Vienna Marathon. At the pre-race press conference race director Michael Brinkmann said that he hopes to see a 2:07 winning time, a major improvement on the current 2:10:25 course record and something that only ...
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