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2011 New York Mini 10k New York, 6/11/11 click here for complete results 1. Linet Masai (Kenya) - 31:40 2. Aheza Kiros (Ethiopia) - 32:09 3. Belainesh Gebre (Ethiopia) - 32:10 4. Edna Kiplagat (Kenya) - 32:24 5. Emily Chebet (Kenya) - 32:31 6. Kim Smith (New Zealand) - 32:32 7. Jo Pavey (U.K.) - 32:46 8. Alessandra Aguilar (Spain) - 32:56 9. Eloise Wellings (Australia) - 33:06 10. Magdalena Lewy-Bouvet (U.S.A.) - 33:09 ----- 13. Yoshimi Ozaki (Team Daiichi Seimei) - 33:30 18. Yuri Kano (Second Wind AC) - 34:09 Nittai Univ. Time Trials Yokohama, 6/11/11 click here for complete results 1. Masataka Fujiwara (Team Chugoku Denryoku) - 29:57.80 2. Arata Fujiwara (Remo System AC) - 29:58.42 3. Daisuke Miyanaga (Team Osaka Gas) - 29:58.97 4. Shunsuke Miyasaka (Senshu Univ.) - 30:03.26 5. Yoshiharu Tateishi (Team Osaka Gas) - 30:02.90 (c) 2011 Brett Larner all rights reserved

by Brett Larner special thanks to Ken Young at ARRS, the IAAF and All-Time Athletics for their database assistance in preparing this article Last month I published a comparison of the results from the American NCAA Pre-Nationals XC Meet and the Hakone Ekiden Qualifier Road Race which showed that more Japanese university runners were running as fast or faster for a hilly 20 km on the roads than American university runners were running for a hilly 8 km XC. I received a fair amount of response to this comparison, much of it negative and much of it from American university runners, in the comment section, on message boards such as letsrun.com, and in my email inbox. One such letsrun poster asked what was apparently supposed to be a rhetorical question: So how many of these "Rising Sons" have run sub-13:30 at age 18? Yeah. The poster was referring to Americans German Fernandez and Chris Derrick, both of whom achieved this impressive feat in late spring this year, clocking...

by Brett Larner The 2008-2009 university ekiden season officially got underway on Oct. 13 with the 20th anniversary edition of the Izumo Ekiden . Twenty-two teams competed over the six stage, 44 km course, including the top teams from the Kanto regional championship Hakone Ekiden, strong schools from other regions of Japan, and a select team of ace runners from the American Ivy League. Tokai Unversity had won the previous three years at Izumo on the strength of its two stars Hideaki Date and Yuki Sato, but with the loss of Date to graduation Tokai faced a tough challenge in its quest for a first-ever fourth straight title from 2008 Hakone Ekiden winners Komazawa University. Komazawa’s runners have traditionally relied on sheer strength over speed to make it the top running school in Japan, but this year Komazawa comes to ekiden season with six runners under 14 minutes for 5000 m for the first time in its history. Waseda University, with 5000 and 10000 m Olympian Kensuke Takezawa and a ...