Kawauchi is amazingly great wrote:
The arm swing does look weird.
The announcers did make fun of him for going out so fast.
Hopefully the announcers learned from their mistake.
Had the front runner been a relatively unknown Kenyan or Ethiopian I have a feeling
the announcers would not have made fun of him.
The man was great on Monday and was/is tougher than everybody who showed up at the starting line.
Yuki Kawauchi also has experience running marathons in very cold weather, and he also has experience in running 50K races (31.1 Miles)...with a PR of 2:44:07 (=5:16.4 avg. pace)
(I am sorry about that Tyler Andrews.)
It turns out that the WIN by Yuki Kawauchi at the Boston Marathon was in a time of 2:15:58 ( = 5:11.2 pace).
It's just a coincidence:
The sun was out to warm the grounds of Marshfield HS to 1˚ F for the 9:00 am start of the Marshfield Road Runners 37th New Year’s Day Marathon. (Yuki at 10-miles, all photos by FitzFoto/NERunner)
The no frills club event started in 1981 with 3 runners and was called the Nothing for Nothing Marathon. For the 2018 event there were once again 3 runners signed up for the full distance with another 25 in the half for the two-loop route.
Two of the marathon enrollees opted out of the brutal conditions but the one marathoner who did show, was The Show.
“I have run a lot of marathons and so it’s tough to compare the weather, but I can say this is the coldest weather I have ever run a marathon in. This was good training for the Antarctica Marathon,” laughed Kawauchi who is looking forward to Boston, stating his goals are to “run in the lead pack and finish among the top-3.”
To that end, despite his self-coached amateur status, Kawauchi has a best of 2:08:14. A winner of over 30 marathons, Kawauchi has competed on several Japanese national teams, including three IAAF World Marathon Championship teams.
He holds the Japanese record in the 50K and world records for running the most sub-2:12 marathons (25), sub-2:13 (40), sub-2:14 (48), sub-2:15 (53), sub-2:16 (62), sub-2:17 (67), sub-2:18 (71) and sub-2:19 (74).
http://www.nerunner.com/2018/01/02/yuki-logs-wr-76th-sub-22000-marathon-frosty-marshfield-ma/21 APR 2013 REPORT NAGANO, JAPAN
KAWAUCHI AND PUCHKOVA WIN SNOWY NAGANO MARATHON
Running his third top class Marathon in as many months, Japan’s Yuki Kawauchi won the 15th Olympic Commemorative Marathon in Nagano, an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race, in 2:14:27 on Sunday (21).
It was the slowest winning time in the history of the race but that can partially be explained by the harsh weather with snow and temperatures rarely getting above zero during the race.
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/kawauchi-and-puchkova-win-snowy-nagano-marath“Blue-Collar” Runner Kawauchi Collapses In 50K
By Duncan Larkin, Published Jun. 21, 2011
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Yuki Kawauchi suffered from heat stroke at an ultra marathon on June 19. Photo: FNN.com
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He was racing the ultra to train for the upcoming world championships.
A member of the 2011 Japanese World Championship Marathon team, Yuki Kawauchi, collapsed short of the finish line at the Okinoshima 50K ultramarathon on June 19. Kawauchi has been receiving a lot of press lately due to the fact that he is an amateur runner who holds down a full-time job while training.
In last February’s Tokyo Marathon, he came in third place (2:08:37), which thrust him into the spotlight and booked him a ticket on the Japanese World Championship team.
He had been racing the ultra to prepare for the upcoming world championships. According to a report posted on the Japan Running News Web site, Kawauchi had been leading the whole race until he began to repeatedly fall.
With 600 meters to go, he lost consciousness. (Oh well. It's not a big surprise.)
A spectator later recalled that he was “bent over, leaning forward. He was weaving back and forth and looked like he was out cold on his feet.”
Larry "expert" Rawson and Craig "moron" Masback confirmed later that Kawauchi suffered from heat stroke.
http://running.competitor.com/2011/06/news/blue-collar-runner-kawauchi-collapses-in-50k_303982012 Oki Ultra Marathon Oki, Japan 1st 50 km ultramarathon 2:51:45
Kawauchi PRs:
Half marathon - 1:02:18 hrs (2012)
30 km - 1:29:31 hrs (2013)
Marathon - 2:08:14 hrs (2013)
50 km ultramarathon - 2:44:07 hrs (2016)