Ageo Metropolis Half Marathon Preview and Streaming

This weekend’s large race is the Ageo Metropolis Half Marathon, the following cease on the collegiate males’s circuit. Many of the universities sure for the Jan. 2-3 Hakone Ekiden use Ageo to skinny down the checklist of contenders for his or her ultimate Hakone rosters, and with JRN’s growth program that sends the primary two Japanese collegiate finishers in Ageo to the United Airways NYC Half yearly quite a lot of coaches put in a few of their A-listers too. That provides Ageo legendary depth and quick front-end velocity, with a 1:00:47 course file final yr from Kenyan company leaguer Paul Kuira (JR Higashi Nihon) and the highest 26 all clearing 63 minutes.

Since quite a lot of applications simply enter everyone on their rosters you by no means actually know who on the entry checklist is definitely going to indicate up, but when even 1 / 4 of the individuals on the high finish of this yr’s checklist run it will be a terrific race, even when situations are trying more likely to be a bit hotter than preferrred. Chuo Gakuin College‘s Reishi Yoshida is the large boy within the subject, with the 2nd-fastest 5000 m greatest, 13:30.30, and the quickest 10000 m and half marathon instances, 27:47.01 and 1:00:31. By no means having made it to NYC, CGU is coming in scorching with two of its different greatest half marathoners on the checklist, Hiro Konda at 1:02:08 and Seia Hotta at 1:02:14.

2nd on the Izumo and Nationwide College Ekiden this season, Komazawa College has despatched extra individuals to New York than another college, and its possibilities this time just about lie with Third-year Aoi Ito, 1:01:16 for the half marathon. The staff that beat Komazawa at each ekidens, Koku Gakuin College has additionally by no means had a runner rating one of many NYC Half tickets, however this time round it has A-lister Goki Takayama 1:01:42, and top-tier members Genta Tsuru, 1:02:15 and Kuranosuke Yoshida, 1:02:29, on its checklist.

Different high collegiate names embrace Sho Fukuda (Teikyo Univ.), 1:02:03, Kodai Miyaoka (Hosei Univ.), 1:02:07, Kyohei Oda (Daito Bunka Univ.), 1:02:09, and Kazusa Nakanuma (Chuo Univ.), 1:02:19. Sub-28:30 10000 m runners Fumiya Oshima (Hosei Univ.), Kihiro Iriyama (Daito Bunka Univ.) and Ryota Shibako (Teikyo Univ.) will likely be seeking to run half marathon instances that match their monitor credentials. There is a noticeable scarcity of Kenyan expertise up entrance, however Duncan Kisaisa (Senshu Univ.), Evans Kiprop (Daito Bunka Univ.), Solomon Mutuku (Soka Univ.) and even visiting Australian Edward Goddard are all adequate to issue into the entrance pack.

Stay streaming of the Ageo Metropolis Half Marathon will likely be posted on the race web site shortly earlier than the race. JRN will likely be on-site within the lead automotive to cowl the race reside.