We've been busy the last couple of weeks with finishing the Inside the Outside - When the World Came to Fukuoka documentary and some time off to recharge and run a trail ultra in Shizuoka. Before the main part of championship ekiden season gets rolling, let's catch up on the non-Fukuoka action from the last two weekends. Following the news that the Yachiyo Kogyo men's corporate would be disbanded after it failed to qualify for the 2022 New Year Ekiden national championships, Raffine Group , another men's team in the East Japan region that didn't make the New Year Ekiden, announced that after just 7 seasons it will be disbanded at the end of January . Raffine's Akira Tomiyasu ran last month's New York City Marathon, with its other top marathon Ryo Osaki having just run Fukuoka. On the roads, the Okutama Keikoku Ekiden in the mountains west of Tokyo held its 83rd running last weekend. One of the few mass-participation ekidens to go ahead in 2020, thi...
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