On Sept. 16th, Michael Tandler, Raymond Wong and Satohi Numasawa traveled two and a half hours from Tokyo to participate in the Tamagawa Trail Run (20K). 678 of the 900 […]

On July 16th a group of Nambanners braved the heat to participate in the second “vegetable marathon” (5k and 10k, no half-marathon this time) in Yumenoshima. The weather was pretty […]

This is a “fun” ekiden, rather than a “serious” ekiden, which is not to say that the 12 Nambanners taking part didn’t try to run fast. We did; it’s just […]

The Sendai International Half Marathon, not held last year due to the tsunami (Sendai is in Miyagi pref., 2 hours by bullet train north of Tokyo), returned in style this […]

Sunday April 29th was Laci Demko’s last full day in Japan, and he decided he wanted to say goodbye to his home of two years by running around the Yamanote […]

James Midgely and Satohi Numasawa, who love trail running, participated in the Ome Takamizu 15km trail race in western Tokyo on April 1st. This beautiful course is only about 60 […]

Namban Rengo was out in force at the Tokyo Marathon, with 35 members running and many more cheering at various places along the course, which really is a big help. […]

Left: 4:12 team of Keren, Harrisson, Greg and Michael. Right: 3:56 team of Joe, Jay, Stan and Petr. For our pre-bonenkai (year-end party) fun run this year, we decided to […]

It was a beautful day on December 4th when ten Nambanners made the trip to Yokohama for a popular Half and 10k. Not popular with the police, however, as the […]