The 5th Hakuba snowharp crosscountry
competition
were held on 20 and 21th July 2002 at the Hakuba snowharp
the Nagano winter olympic crosscountry ski trails. |
| Ekiden (relay ) competitions
were held from 3 p.m. on 20th July 2002 |
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| Start scenery of Ekiden |
Leading runners, Tookamachi
sinior high school (Niigata pref.) and Hakuba sinior high
students. |
In Ekiden relay, runners
have to pass & recieve TASUKI (something like tied
long clothes ) instead of batons. A bit nervous moment. |
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| As crosscountry trails
are full of uphills and downhills, so wood chips are spreaded
in some trails to decrease the pain of runners' feet. |
When runners keep enduring
a long uphill to run ..... |
Then they have to try a
downhill that might hurt their feet. |
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| There are always uphills
and downhills in crosscountry trails. |
Winter scenery. You can
enjoy crosscountry skiing here. |
Snowharp trails map |
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| A signboard that says a
preserved pond for frogs is just besides a trail. |
This is the preserved pond
for frogs |
They say the snowharp is
a suitable place in Japan with its weather condition to
practice and to hold competitioins as the altitude is
approximately 750 meters and has some forests at the backyard. |
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| 21th July 2002. Wheelchair
runners' race, 8km,1.5km, 1km,4km races were held one
after another. |
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| Wheelchair racers. They
compited for 7.5km. |
Start scenery for 8km |
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| Leading runners soon before
the 1st water station. The right man is an invited runner
MR.Mano who was in the 7th place in Fukuoka Intl' marathon
2001, 5th place in Tokyo Intl' marathon 2002. |
He won and ran with elementary
school children soon after his finish. |
Elementary school children
competited depends on their glade - 1.2th, 3.4th and 5.6th. |
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Cute boys
and girls were running for the finish.
This crosscountry festival was held in Hakuba without
any big accidents when the rainy season was just over.
The organizer published approximately 1,000 people entried.
How about entring next year? Healthy elementary school
children and older were qualified for this competition.
In mens' part, there was a race for " 70 years old
and older". ( Usually a lot more men entry than women,
so women runners are not devided into many parties - just
39 years and younger & 40 years and older). |
