Twenty-three-year-old Japanese Gaku Hoshi won Sunday's combined Osaka Marathon and Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, capturing the new event on the national running calendar in his first race at that distance.In a race featuring 300 elite female and male runners, Hoshi broke out of a three-man pack around the 38-kilometer mark and ran solo the rest of the way to win in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 31 seconds -- a record for a first-time marathoner."This was my first marathon and I didn't think I would win so this is a surprise," Hoshi said."It's too good to be true but I'm super happy. I knew it would co…READ FULL ARTICLE
