The Pair Marathon scored every of the 19 competing universities on the mixed instances of its high two registered finishers. Together with 2nd-year teammate Shu Yoshida, 4th in 1:04:29, Kimoto additionally helped Toyo win the crew scoring competitors in 2:08:11, a course document and Toyo’s first win in 16 years. Publish-race Kimoto smiled as he mentioned, “We got here right here to get the general and crew wins.”
At January’s Hakone Ekiden Kimoto was solely nineteenth out of 21 groups on the 4th Stage, and afterward he struggled to regroup and get well. “There have been days once I may barely even jog,” he mentioned. “I am nonetheless not fully again to regular.” Temperatures in Yaizu reached 23˚ on race day with piercing sunshine, however, he mentioned, “Warmth does not hassle me.” Kimoto broke freed from the competitors after 17 km, finally opening 24 seconds on 2nd place.
Yoshida, considered one of Toyo’s alternates at Hakone, additionally ran aggressively to complete 4th. “Kimoto has expertise and expertise, however that did not imply I used to be simply going to let him beat me,” he mentioned. He discovered quite a bit from watching his teammates transfer up from ninth on the finish of Hakone Day One to 4th total. “It takes interior power to carry out on the large stage,” he mentioned.
As a particular prize for successful the Pair Marathon in document time, the Toyo athletes acquired a whole southern maguro tuna from the native fishing port affiliation. Laughing and smiling on the rostrum as they acquired the prize, they mentioned, “We’ll share this with everybody again within the dorm.” Subsequent month each plan to run within the Kanto Area College Observe and Area Championships, and with maguro energy of their veins you might be positive they’re going to be aiming increased than ever.
thirty seventh Yaizu Minato Half Marathon
Yaizu, Shizuoka, 10 Apr. 2022
Males
1. Daichi Kimoto (Toyo Univ.) – 1:03:42 – CR tie
2. Masahiro Mekata (Aoyama Gakuin Univ. – 1:04:06
3. Ryuji Uruta (Toka Univ.) – 1:04:17
4. Shu Yoshida (Toyo Univ.) – 1:04:29
5. Takato Azechi (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) – 1:04:40
6. Kenta Shimura (Soka Univ.) – 1:04:45
7. Yusuke Akutsu (Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 1:04:57
8. Ryo Fujimoto (Koku Gakuin Univ.) – 1:05:08
9. Mitsuhiro Kurihara (Yamanashi Gakuin Univ.) – 1:05:27
10. Atsushi Maeda (Chuo Gakuin Univ.) – 1:05:41
Pair Marathon
1. Toyo College (Kimoto/Yoshida) – 2:08:11 – CR
2. Aoyama Gakuin College (Mekata/Azechi) – 2:08:46
3. Koku Gakuin College (Akutsu/Fujimoto) – 2:10:05
4. Tokai College (Uruta/Sato) – 2:11:06
5. Chuo Gakuin College (Maeda/Hada) – 2:11:32
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translated by Brett Larner
