by Brett Larner
Following the Jan. 1 New Year Ekiden and Jan. 2-3 HakoneEkiden, the year's first full weekend of road racing included at least four major half marathons across the country.
きょう、げんきあっぷはーふまらそんはしりました!
たいむべすとでました! pic.twitter.com/2fcLzcZCB1 — Stanley (@stanleysiteki) January 8, 2017
At Tochigi's Takanezawa Genki Up Half Marathon, Kenyan Stanley Siteki, a Tokyo Kokusai University teammate of Hakone anchor stage "phantom winner"Akito Terui, outran Hakone champion Aoyama Gakuin University's alternates and B-team memeber to win in 1:03:20. Last year's Takanezawa winnerAritaka Kajiwara was 4th in 1:03:45, exactly a minute slower than his 2016 course record.
In Tokyo, the High-Tech Half Marathon, a rebranded version of the popular Mari Tanigawa Half Marathon, saw former JR Higashi Nihon runner Shusei Ohashi win the men's race in 1:05:29. Eri Suzuki, at 5th the top Japanese woman in last month's Honolulu Marathon, won the women's race in 1:…
Following the Jan. 1 New Year Ekiden and Jan. 2-3 HakoneEkiden, the year's first full weekend of road racing included at least four major half marathons across the country.
きょう、げんきあっぷはーふまらそんはしりました!
たいむべすとでました! pic.twitter.com/2fcLzcZCB1 — Stanley (@stanleysiteki) January 8, 2017
At Tochigi's Takanezawa Genki Up Half Marathon, Kenyan Stanley Siteki, a Tokyo Kokusai University teammate of Hakone anchor stage "phantom winner"Akito Terui, outran Hakone champion Aoyama Gakuin University's alternates and B-team memeber to win in 1:03:20. Last year's Takanezawa winnerAritaka Kajiwara was 4th in 1:03:45, exactly a minute slower than his 2016 course record.
In Tokyo, the High-Tech Half Marathon, a rebranded version of the popular Mari Tanigawa Half Marathon, saw former JR Higashi Nihon runner Shusei Ohashi win the men's race in 1:05:29. Eri Suzuki, at 5th the top Japanese woman in last month's Honolulu Marathon, won the women's race in 1:…