TASUKI
LEG010.0KM

関東学生駅伝 102nd running

One sash.
Ten dawns.

217.1 kilometres from Otemachi stone to Lake Ashi mist, carried by ten bodies and one promise.

Meet the first runner
Tokyo07:584.2°C

The course

A promise passed
hand to hand.

The tasuki is never dropped. Each runner arrives with another runner’s effort across his chest, then releases it into the next pair of hands.

OutboundReturn217.1 KM
  1. 01

    City awakens

    Daichi Mori settles the field through Nihonbashi, counting green lights instead of rivals.

    21.3 km
    1:01:48
    Split
    2:54/km
    Daichi MoriSeiryo University · 4th year
  2. 02

    Coastal crosswind

    Ren Kagawa keeps the crimson flat against his shoulder while salt air cuts across Totsuka road.

    23.1 km
    1:07:36
    Place
    3rd
    Ren KagawaSeiryo University · 2nd year
  3. 03

    The long sunlight

    Haruto Ise runs by the moving shadow of the sash as the road opens toward Hiratsuka.

    21.4 km
    1:02:41
    Gain
    +1 place
    Haruto IseSeiryo University · 3rd year
  4. 04

    Before the wall

    Sota Arai empties the tank before Odawara. The climbing specialist waits beyond the bells.

    20.9 km
    1:01:57
    Gap
    +00:38
    Sota AraiSeiryo University · 4th year
  5. 05

    The mountain asks.

    Yuto Kagami leans into 13.6 kilometres of ascent. Each breath shortens; the old cedars do not.

    20.8 km
    1:10:12
    Climb
    +834 m
    Yuto KagamiSeiryo University · 3rd year
  6. 06

    Morning mist turns

    At Lake Ashi, Kosei Nitta receives a damp, warm sash and sends it down through cloud.

    20.8 km
    1:00:44
    Descent
    -834 m
    Kosei NittaSeiryo University · 2nd year
  7. 00:10to cutoff
    07

    Ten seconds left.

    Shin Umezawa appears through the crowd. The relay marshal raises the reserve sash, then freezes.

    21.3 km
    1:04:58
    Margin
    00:03
    Shin UmezawaSeiryo University · 4th year
  8. 08

    Three seconds spared

    Takumi Ono takes the living sash, not the pale reserve. The road noise returns all at once.

    21.4 km
    1:03:19
    Place
    2nd
    Takumi OnoSeiryo University · 1st year
  9. 09

    Back into Tokyo

    Naoki Fuse erases a forty-second gap beneath the expressway’s cold repeating shadow.

    23.1 km
    1:07:02
    Gap
    +00:07
    Naoki FuseSeiryo University · 3rd year
  10. 10

    Carry us home

    Captain Riku Senda hears his name become weather. He enters Otemachi seven seconds behind.

    23.0 km
    1:06:11
    Finish
    10:46:28
    Riku SendaCaptain · final year

Per-ku mathematics

The road is solved
one kilometre at a time.

Move the target pace. The slate recalculates the ten legs with mountain-adjusted effort.

2:58 / KMDrag between 2:48 and 3:20 per kilometre
Projected relay10:49:31including elevation model

    KU 05 adds 24 sec/km for 834 m of gain. KU 06 returns 7 sec/km on the descent. The model never rounds effort into heroics.

    Before first light

    The eleventh runner
    is a bowl of rice.

    At Seiryo’s Koganei dorm, cook Sachiko Endo starts the burners at 03:40. Every leg has its bowl: ume for courage, salted salmon for the mountain, grated yam for the anchor.

    “A runner leaves the table carrying everyone who woke up with him.”Sachiko Endo, dorm cook since 1998
    03:40Water on
    04:05Ten bowls
    04:32Miso steam
    05:10Bus departs

    The 102nd Kanto Collegiate Ekiden

    The sash arrives.
    Everyone does.

    SEIRYO UNIVERSITY2ND+00:02

    Riku misses the tape by two seconds. His nine teammates meet him twelve metres later.

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