• rising son
      • 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 9:03AM
      • rising son
      • Yuki Kawauchi, the greatest undoubtably clean marathon runner in the world right now, added another new world record to his impressive resume over the weekend.

        Kawauchi broke the world record for a half marathon run in a suit running 66 mins 42 secs, taking off a whopping 18 minutes off the previous world mark set by American Gihan Amarasiriwardena in December 2015.

        http://japanrunningnews.blogsp...unter.html

        http://japanrunningnews.blogsp...-half.html

        Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.
    • coach deez nuts
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      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 9:18AM - in reply to rising son
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      • rising son wrote:
        Yuki Kawauchi, the greatest undoubtably clean marathon runner in the world right now,
        Pure f*cking bullshit.

        The pictures from the race are pretty hilarious.
    • Lorenzo (Larry) Liberal
    • whaaaat?
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 9:22AM - in reply to rising son
      • whaaaat?
      • Yuki Kawauchi, the greatest undoubtably clean marathon runner in the world right now

        Clean, as in, he showered after the race, correct?
    • somebloke
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      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 9:28AM - in reply to rising son
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      • rising son wrote:

        Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.
        Are you retarded?
    • messi
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 11:18AM - in reply to Lorenzo (Larry) Liberal
      • messi
      • Lorenzo (Larry) Liberal wrote:
        Wow, with a vest, even.
        That "record" shouldn't count if he wasn't wearing dress shoes.
    • Faster than eeyore
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 11:25AM - in reply to messi
      • Faster than eeyore
      • I still have the 10k run in a winnie the pooh head FKT at 39:51 but Guinness wasn't there to certify it.
    • Humourless idiot alert
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 11:32AM - in reply to somebloke
      • Humourless idiot alert
      • somebloke wrote:
        rising son wrote:

        Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.
        Are you retarded?
        I wonder who´s retarded?
    • habs
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      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 11:46AM - in reply to rising son
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      • Damn, I was planning on attacking this one some time back when it was 84 minutes. Considering the last two attempts have gotten significant coverage on RW, wonder how little this one will get considering it doesn't involve an American.

        Still an impressive performance, hard to say how much the suit takes off considering you can still wear running shoes for the record.
    • Elderly retired person
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 12:46PM - in reply to habs
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      • habs wrote:
        Damn, I was planning on attacking this one some time back when it was 84 minutes. Considering the last two attempts have gotten significant coverage on RW, wonder how little this one will get considering it doesn't involve an American.

        Still an impressive performance, hard to say how much the suit takes off considering you can still wear running shoes for the record.
        I've always worn running shoes with suits.

        Many others do this as well.
    • Ho Hum
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 1:06PM - in reply to habs
      • Ho Hum
      • habs wrote:
        Damn, I was planning on attacking this one some time back when it was 84 minutes. Considering the last two attempts have gotten significant coverage on RW, wonder how little this one will get considering it doesn't involve an American.

        Still an impressive performance, hard to say how much the suit takes off considering you can still wear running shoes for the record.
        He says in the article that his record won't count because Kiwa isn't certified, so you've still got a shot.
    • rising son
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 5:28PM - in reply to Humourless idiot alert
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      • Humourless idiot alert wrote:
        somebloke wrote:
        rising son wrote:

        Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.
        Are you retarded?
        I wonder who´s retarded?
        None of the distance greats, Geb Bekele or Radcliffe etc have broken any world record by so much of a proportion. Kawauchi's run this weekend was unprecedented in the history of modern distance running. At the very least his performance merits a front page headline, if not a black page.
    • troof be told
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 9:55PM - in reply to rising son
      • troof be told
      • rising son wrote:
        Humourless idiot alert wrote:
        somebloke wrote:
        rising son wrote:
        Kawauchi is taking distance running into new territory with this accomplishment as never before in the history of distance running has such a huge amount of time been taken off a half marathon world record.
        Are you retarded?
        I wonder who´s retarded?
        None of the distance greats, Geb Bekele or Radcliffe etc have broken any world record by so much of a proportion. Kawauchi's run this weekend was unprecedented in the history of modern distance running. At the very least his performance merits a front page headline, if not a black page.
        But dude, the course wasn't certified. What if it was 18 minutes short?
    • Stume it up...
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/14/2016 11:27PM - in reply to troof be told
      • Stume it up...
      • Billy Chester Polyester ran a 2:24 marathon.

        Tony Migliozzi ran a 1:09 half marathon in jeans and a flannel shirt training for the world 50k which he won.
    • Beat the Uhmericas
      • RE: Cut the [email protected] 3/15/2016 10:33AM - in reply to Giveasht
      • Beat the Uhmericas
      • Giveasht wrote:
        fred wrote:
        How about he quits his job, starts running 120 miles a week and cuts the [email protected]
        That's the beauty of it. He doesn't care about going pro.
        Yuki finished ahead of every American runner at NYC. Yup, even those Americans who didn't have jobs and ran at least 120 miles per week.
    • eotbs
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/15/2016 11:48AM - in reply to rising son
      • eotbs
      • The suit thing is meaningless.

        The real story here is that he ran a full marathon in 2:11 the weekend prior, a 66 half this past weekend, and is set to run another full marathon this coming weekend. If he doesn't DNF and goes sub-2:20, then THAT would be amazing.
    • oh please
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      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/15/2016 12:22PM - in reply to eotbs
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      • eotbs wrote:
        The suit thing is meaningless.

        The real story here is that he ran a full marathon in 2:11 the weekend prior, a 66 half this past weekend, and is set to run another full marathon this coming weekend. If he doesn't DNF and goes sub-2:20, then THAT would be amazing.
        Fairly certain this is common for Mr. Kawauchi, including 2 sub 209s in something like 30 days.
    • Kawauchi fan
      • RE: 66' 42" : New world record over 1/2 marathon run a suit for Yuki Kawauchi 3/15/2016 12:37PM - in reply to rising son
      • Kawauchi fan
      • Kawauchi is great.

        I will always wonder if Kawauchi would be faster if he raced less and trained more conventionally with 2 peaks a year. I think he would be, although a 2:08 PR isn't chopped liver.

        However, if he was more conventional he wouldn't be Kawauchi.