Two-time reigning overall champion Aoyama Gakuin University won the outbound route of the annual two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay on Friday, setting a record time to take an 18-second lead over second-placed Waseda University.Five Aoyama Gakuin runners combined for 5 hours, 18 minutes, 8 seconds over 107.5 kilometers between Tokyo's Otemachi business district and the mountainous hot spring resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture, topping the first day for the third straight year.Aiming to become the first team to win three straight overall titles on two separate occasions, …READ FULL ARTICLE
