Ekiden is a long-distance relay format that’s bigger than Godzilla in Japan but little known elsewhere. I’m invited as part of a 10-strong team jointly representing Runner’s World UK and JET alumni – ...

Toyota Motor Corp.’s next-generation electric vehicle, the e-Palette, will serve as a medical support vehicle in January at the Hakone Ekiden, one of the nation’s most celebrated university relay ...

Hatsumōde (first shrine visit of the year), osechi (celebratory feast) and Hakone Ekiden (what some people call the greatest race on earth): These are three of the Japanese New Year’s traditions that ...

It is Sunday morning, Dec. 25, and all across Japan TV sets are tuned in to the spectacle of high school distance running championships held in the streets of Kyoto. Thousands of spectators line the ...

The Hakone Ekiden is a marquee event on the annual athletic calendar in Japan. Taking place on January 2 and 3 each year, this long-distance relay race pits university men’s teams against each other ...

When people mention running relays, it’s likely that your first thoughts are of athletes sprinting round a running track for either 100m or 400m. But there does exist another type of relay. It can ...

Each year amateur and professional teams of runners compete in various long-distance relay races called ekiden. The most prestigious of these is the grueling two-day Hakone Ekiden held on January 2 ...

KYOTO--With her team far behind, Sherry Drury took the “tasuki” sash in a national women’s ekiden long-distance relay race here on Jan. 15 and ran like a sprinter, her arms swinging wide. The Japanese ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three weeks before the sternest physical challenge of my life, I was outside the Lululemon flagship store in ...

In-person marathons might be canceled this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t obtain a new personal record, even while engaging in some friendly competition with your fit fam. ASICS is launching a ...