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Haile Gebrselassie leads Tsegaye Kebede and Ayele Abshero in front of Manchester United's home ground Old Trafford. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/LRR12/News/NewsDetail.aspx?id=65030 Translator's note: Ishikawa's Honda teammate Takahiro Yamanaka  finished 16th at the Great Manchester Run in 29:54.  2008 Osaka International Women's Marathon winner Mara Yamauchi  (GBR) was 6th in the women's race in 32:28.  Elsewhere overseas, national champion Team Nissin Shokuhin's Manabu Itayama  was 7th at the Jakarta International 10 km road race in 31:33 while sub-2:10 man Tomoya Shimizu  (Team Sagawa Express) ran 2:16:57 to take 2nd at the Riga Marathon, his teammate Masanori Ishida  6th in 2:23:00. Men's marathon world record holder Patrick Makau watches the start of the City Games Manchester men's 150 m. photos (c) 2012 Brett Larner all rights reserved

http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/LRR12/News/NewsDetail.aspx?id=65011 JRN is in Manchester with Honda runners Suehiro Ishikawa  and Takahiro Yamanaka.

by Brett Larner photos by Daniel Seite #30 Kenta Murayama (Meisei H.S.) on the shoulder of 2010 Tokyo Marathon winner #16 Masakazu Fujiwara (Team Honda). Hot from a 13:49.45 PB two weeks ago, Meisei High School's Kenta Murayama ran the fastest 10000 m time of the year by a Japanese high schooler, 28:23.18, to finish 3rd in the A-heat at the 213th Nittai University Time Trials meet Dec. 4 in Yokohama. Ahead of Murayama were only Kenyans Jacob Wanjuki and Samuel Ndungu of Team Aichi Seiko, Wanjuki winning in a strong PB of 27:49.44. Among the Japanese competition to finish behind Murayama were 2010 Tokyo Marathon winner Masakazu Fujiwara (Team Honda) and 2010 Kanto Regional University 5000 m champion Taku Fujimoto (Kokushikan Univ.), who battled head to head to finish 5th and 6th in 28:27.52 and 28:27.66. 10000 m A-Heat winner Jacob Wanjuki (Kenya/Team Aichi Seiko). Murayama's time improved the high school year best time by 30 seconds over the sub-29 time set two weeks ago b...