Fans of Nike's performance running line may remember the fiery Vaporfly 3 and Zoom Fly 6 surfacing in September. As it turns out, those pairs are part of a larger collection inspired by Japan. The ...
Ekiden is a long-distance relay format that’s bigger than Godzilla in Japan but little known elsewhere. I’m invited as part of a 10-strong team jointly representing Runner’s World UK and JET alumni – ...
Bringing the spirit of Japan’s legendary Ekiden relay to India, global Japanese sportswear brand ASICS today announced ASICS ...
Hatsumōde (first shrine visit of the year), osechi (celebratory feast) and Hakone Ekiden (what some people call the greatest race on earth): These are three of the Japanese New Year’s traditions that ...
It is Sunday morning, Dec. 25, and all across Japan TV sets are tuned in to the spectacle of high school distance running championships held in the streets of Kyoto. Thousands of spectators line the ...
KYOTO--With her team far behind, Sherry Drury took the “tasuki” sash in a national women’s ekiden long-distance relay race here on Jan. 15 and ran like a sprinter, her arms swinging wide. The Japanese ...
Each year amateur and professional teams of runners compete in various long-distance relay races called ekiden. The most prestigious of these is the grueling two-day Hakone Ekiden held on January 2 ...
A unique racing opportunity for U.S. distance training groups will take place in Michigan thanks to Hansons-Brooks ODP coach Kevin Hanson. (c) 2020 Race Results ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three weeks before the sternest physical challenge of my life, I was outside the Lululemon flagship store in ...
When people mention running relays, it’s likely that your first thoughts are of athletes sprinting round a running track for either 100m or 400m. But there does exist another type of relay. It can ...