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From Farah to Fukushi to Kawauchi, Ageo to Hakone to New York and back, JRN's ten most-read articles of the year. 川内優輝さん！スーツ姿で爆走中‼︎ pic.twitter.com/GcOwRWrXlN — ▽・x・▽ tru2 (@M31007) March 13, 2016 1. Kawauchi Breaks World Record for Half Marathon in a Suit by 18 Minutes - Mar. 13 A week after running 2:11:53 at the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) ran his hometown Kuki Half Marathon dressed in his work clothes, a full three-piece suit including tie, belt and dress socks.  Kawauchi ran 1:06:42 for 3rd to beat the official Guinness World Record by 18 minutes, but because Kuki is not a certified course his time was not ratified as a new record. 2. Tsegay Over Makau for Fukuoka Win, Miracle-Worker Kawauchi 3rd  - Dec. 4 2015 World Championships silver medalist  Yemane Tsegay  (Ethiopia) stopped former world record holder  Patrick Makau  (Kenya) from claiming a third-straight Fukuoka title.   Yuki Kawauchi ...

by Brett Larner What a wild race. With warmer than usual temps forecast and its fastest two foreign runners out the plan was for the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon , the last chance for Japanese men to make the Rio Olympics marathon team, to go out at a reasonable 3:02/km, 2:08:00 pace.  That went straight out the window as amateur runner Shota Kamioka went ahead of the pacers heading off the track onto the road, pulling Kenyan pacer Samuel Kosgei and the rest of the internationals behind him through 1 km in 2:55.  Japanese pacers Yuta Shitara and Akihiko Tsumurai ignored Kamioka, taking the main part of the field out closer to target pace.  Long after he was gone Kamioka had an impact on the race, Kosgei splitting 14:57 for the first 5 km instead of the target 15:10.  Tsumurai and Shitara hit it in 15:03, still faster than planned but more achievable for a group of mostly 2:08 to 2:11 men. Relatively unknown Ethiopian Shura Kitata , just 19 years old, ran on ...

by Brett Larner The elite field for the Mar. 6 Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon , the last selection race for the Japanese men's Rio Olympics team, is finally out, and it is a monster.  Fifteen men with sub-2:10 times in the last three years including nine Japanese men.  Tadese Tola leads the six quality internationals with a 2:04:49 at the 2013 Dubai Marathon, with the other five perfectly positioned from 2:06:43 to 2:08:55 to pull the massive Japanese field along to fast times. 2:08 men Kazuhiro Maeda (Team Kyudenko), Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) and Kentaro Nakamoto (Yasukawa Denki) lead the nine sub-2:10 Japanese men, but there are dozens more one level down from that who could step up including 2015 Sydney Marathon winner Hisanori Kitajima (Team Yasukawa) and 2014 Riga Marathon winner Yu Chiba (Team Honda).  More potential can be found on the list of runners taking a second shot at the marathon after failed debuts.  Former Hakone Ekiden stars Shino...

2011 Memorial Van Damme Men's 10000 m Brussels, Belgium, 9/16/11 click here for complete results 1. Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) - 26:43.16 2. Lucas Rotich (Kenya) - 26:43.98 - PB 3. Galen Rupp (U.S.A.) - 26:48.00 - PB, AR 4. Emmanuel Bett (Kenya) - 26:51.95 5. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) - 26:53.27 6. Geoffrey Kirui (Kenya) - 26:55.73 - PB 7. Titus Mbishei (Kenya) - 26:59.81 - PB 8. Paul Lonyangata (Kenya) - 27:21.62 9. Mike Kigen (Kenya) - 27:30.53 - PB 10. Denis Masai (Kenya) - 27:32.97 - PB 11. Josphat Bett (Kenya) - 27:57.60 ----- DNF - Kazuya Watanabe (Team Shikoku Denryoku)