January 29th marked the 15th running of the Shinjuku City Half Marathon (plus 10km and family/children’s events). The convenience and novelty of running in the center of the city and […]
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD DECEMBER This year, as in the past 28 years, the first Sunday of December saw several Namban Rengo teams participating in the Okutama Ekiden out in […]
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD NOVEMBER Marathon season is upon us, in fact, this could be called Marathon Month But we start with the La France Half Marathon in Yamagata pref. […]
Unlike last year, for this year’s Namban Rengo Run & BBQ (Nov. 6), we got the beautiful weather we deserve. A strong wind was in our faces on the return […]
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD OCTOBER On the first day of the month, 10 club members had a lot of fun running the Special Olympics Charity Ekiden — see the report […]
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD SEPTEMBER Rika Homma ran the Karuizawa Half Marathon in 1:55 — good! At the Tazawako Marathon on the 18th, Terry Minegishi finished in 3:38:09, with Alan […]
Namban Rengo participated in this 3-hour relay charity ekiden in Tokyo’s Odaiba district and came away with a surprising 5th position overall out of 184 teams. The event was held […]
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD AUGUST Ironman 70.3 Triathlon in Cebu saw Keren Miers finish in 5:13:41 – victorious in his age group! A week later, Stan Chow completed Ironman 70.3 […]