Top Japanese collegiate team puts 8 under 29:00 in 1 race

brainboxed wrote:

FormerD1: This IS the dumbest post I have read today...

You are the one person who took the OP's "29:00" to represent the marathon distance.

by your logic, Japanese 1500 - 10k times must be up in the 2 hour plus range...

they have no medals in recent generations on an international level.... they can't do things outside of Japan well.... except swimming.

You moron.

You made a statement of fact: "no medals in recent generations", citing some BS borderline racist generalisation about Japanese culture, and go on to say they can't do things outside of Japan well except swimming. You don't say "they're great at X Y and Z but suck at the 10K outside of Japan", instead you make a huge broad generalisation. What are you some typical gaijin English tutor? Get a life.

Medals below.

Women:

2000 Olympic Marathon Gold

2001 WC Marathon Silver

2003 WC Marathon Silver + Bronze

2004 Olympic Marathon Gold

2007 WC Marathon Bronze

2009 WC Marathon Silver

2013 WC Marathon Bronze

Men:

2005 WC Marathon Bronze

For a country with a population nearly three times as large as Japan, with a much deeper running and marathon culture, the US is appalling when it comes to the marathon. Before Rupp, the US was appalling when it came to other distance events as well.

The Kennedy/Goucher years were bitter disappointments. Ritz/Hall/Webb had brilliant flashes, but they were just that - flashes that were all too short and brief.

ZERO GOLD MEDALS IN ANY DISTANCE EVENT SINCE 1984!!!!

Let that sink into your brains. ZERO GOLD.

ZERO GOLD.

NADA.

ZIP.

ZERO.

ONE measly silver and ONE bronze in all distance events since 1984. With the vast resources and huge number of runners present in the US starting from high school, US distance running is just sad.

It was a privilege to see this race in person. 8 guys in one race! What a night. I feel bad for Motegi missing the party by less than a second, but hopefully he gets there in the spring.

formerD1

Please get some help. You are mentally ill.

Lovely non sequitor and psychological analysis over the internet. WINNER!

Nobody can address my contention that the Japanese distance team has enjoyed more success on the Olympic and WC level than the US? Great, lets do the hobby jogger thing of slinging insults.

formerD1 wrote:

Nobody can address my contention that the Japanese distance team has enjoyed more success on the Olympic and WC level than the US? Great, lets do the hobby jogger thing of slinging insults.

Listen, it's not about the subject being discussed here (I mean, my remark). It's about the anger you show. You may call it passion but seriously, man... Get some help.

Whats worse than body language analysts watching the TV? Written word psychoanalysis on the internet.

Get a life, seriously.

formerD1 wrote:

Whats worse than body language analysts watching the TV? Written word psychoanalysis on the internet.

Get a life, seriously.

Suit yourself. I was trying to help.

1993 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MARATHON GOLD - USA

Are you guys dense? USA has a great history at WC/Olympics in the Marathon.

And Japan has never won GOLD on the track in any event since 1984.

uh huh. how is there medal count in 1500 - 10K? Hope this helps..

brainboxed wrote:

uh huh. how is there medal count in 1500 - 10K? Hope this helps..

Where?

brainboxed wrote:

uh huh. how is there medal count in 1500 - 10K? Hope this helps..

How is where medal count?

It's OK not to be well-informed. You could say thank you for getting information you lacked instead of getting defensive.

Bundang Social Club wrote:

And has 3 more sub 29 on the roster (and two more at 29:00 and 29:02).

The 11 sub 29:00s-

Tadashi Isshiki (3rd yr.) - 28:23.40

Kazuma Kubota (4th yr.) - 28:24.50

Yusuke Ogura (4th yr.) - 28:27.73

Yuta Shimoda (2nd yr.) - 28:33.77

Yuki Nakamura (2nd yr.,) - 28:34.66

Toshinori Watanabe (4th yr.) - 28:35.05

Kokoro Watanabe (4th yr.) - 28:37.38

Daichi Kamino (4th yr.) - 28:41.48

Kazuki Tamura (2nd yr.) - 28:46.81

Kinari Ikeda (3rd yr.) - 28:51.31

Yuhi Akiyama (3rd yr.) - 28:58.93

The Japanese do love to time trial, but I have to think these guys would've won NCAAs and could put 2 teams in the top 5-10 if they split their squad.

From Brett Larner's always fascinating Japan Running News-

http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2015/11/aoyama-gakuin-university-sends-eight.html

What could those guys run in a XC race?

I'd like to see a Colorado or Stanford or Syracuse run a team TT 10k on a track with the XC fitness. Could 8 break 29? Who knows but they would be fine.

Didnt Japan winnMens 400m hurdles in 2004? Or was it WC? There were a couple of others but cant remember.

Btw I genuinely dont like Japan athletics due to their mileage overload philosophy. But they have had very impressove distance results on the world stage.

Japan's ability to produce massive numbers of runners who are almost good enough to be relevant is unparalleled.

How many Oly wins? wrote:

Japan's ability to produce massive numbers of runners who are almost good enough to be relevant is unparalleled.

Only be out paralleled by the America's inability to produce any good distance runners, saving a very slow silver for 10k--a one off.

How many sub 2:10 marathoners has the USA produced compared to Japan? Sub 2:10 is not relevant it seems.