February 2019 Race Results

February began with strong Namban showings at the Kanagawa Half Marathon on the 3rd. Chris Winter’s friend Ben Kelly came up from Melbourne and WON the Open division in 67:50 (PB). Renaud Isman 1:22:20 (PB), Emmanuel Obser 1:23:53 (PB), Paul Allen 1:24, Satoshi Hashimoto, David Abbott, Daigo Asada, Takeshi Koide, Glenn Rubin 1:44:49, Sumie Kawakami 1:46:06, Ayano Onodera 1:50:44 (PB), Yukari Oimatsu 1:56:21, Mika Kume
Yuki Fukushima and Rika Homma went to the prestigious Beppu-Oita Marathon, and had good races. Yuki ran an evenly paced race to a PB of 2:48:41, and Rika ran a negative split for a 3:18:45.
22 (or more?) Nambanners were at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama for the Iikoto Charity 5-hour relay race, where our top team finished 5th out of 173 teams. Great job everyone!
Still on the 3rd, Yuta Suda was down in Hong Kong for the 9 Dragons 50K, where he finished 2nd! Congratulations!
The 10th saw Chika Kanai in Ehime, where she ran the “fantastic!” Ehime Marathon in a fantastic time of 3:20:16 despite a headwind in the first half. And was 9th in her age group out of 706! Now go look on a map and find Ehime (pref.).
For some reason, probably Terry Minegishi’s promotion efforts, a large number of Nambanners ran the 53rd edition of the Ome Marathon on the 17th — 23! Enjoying the good weather (but some wind) in the 30K race were Gary Wilberforce 1:45:44 (66th, gun time), Stan Chow 1:59:57 (203rd), Mike Hegarty :2:03:31 (gun time), Eric Lebrasseur 2:03:12, Harrisson Uk, Terry Minegishi 2:21:57, Rika Homma 2:18:30 (23rd over 40s), Faith Geraghty 2:20:48 (36th under 40s), Yasuo Hayakawa 2:27:18 (PB in 11th time at Ome!), Padraig MacColgain, Taras Koochin, Ashley Harvey, Mika Tokairin 2:29:38 (38th AG), Rie Onodera 2:26:44 (64th AG), Yukari Oimatsu 3:03:20, Andrew Farmer, Ayano Onodera, Tom Boatman, Glenn Rubin, Yoko Kubo, Celine Bouny, Kota Torii. And in the 10K Yuki Seshimo 47:?? (20th over 40s), Roselle Kingsbury 48:30 (35th under 40s))
Meanwhile, that day was the Kyoto Marathon. Keren Miers and Makiko Hosokawa welcomed Ken Pechter and Stacy Simon to Kyoto, where they all had a great time running the race.
Having missed Ome, Dennis Büchner ran a small 30K at Lake Saiko and won it in 2:05:30.
Raymond Wong ran the China Coast Marathon on the 20th in 3:42:38, coming in 3rd in the 55 AG.
Martin Verdier and Max Streeter both crushed the Shizuoka Marathon on the 24th. Martin finished in a Personal Best (by over 5 mins) of 2:50:05 and Max ran 3:10:56, a PB by 7 minutes. Martin had also run the Hi-Tech Half on the Arakawa last month in 1:22:35. Yukari Oimatsu, having warmed up at Ome the previous week, also ran, finishing in 4:28:35.
Also on the 24th, Yuta Suda ran the Fukaya Half in 1:10:47 – his second best ever.

Harrisson Uk

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