Career Packs

The usual career begins with a blank page. Career Packs begin with a story — a team waiting for your leg, an injury behind you, thin air in your lungs or one last impossible distance ahead.

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Take the tasuki. Run for the team.

Begin at 18 in a university Ekiden team or join a corporate team at 22. Every relay is raced by total time: you receive the tasuki at the place and gap your teammates reached, then run your leg's real distance and climb against 19 other teams.

  • Earn the coach's trust to move from support legs to the ace, mountain and anchor legs.
  • Race the 860 m mountain climb, protect a top-ten seed and fight through the autumn half-marathon qualifier.
  • See every handoff, the white tasuki, graduating seniors, incoming freshmen and the final team standings.
  • Win 15 exclusive achievements, an Ekiden app icon and three exclusive patches.

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Comeback

Start again after injury

Begin at 26 with a damaged Achilles, lost fitness and a reputation to rebuild. Recover carefully, rediscover the athlete you were and earn a place on the national team.

Altitude School

Raised in thin air

Start at 18 in a high-altitude village with a huge aerobic base, strong long runs and a harder road to every away race. Turn that upbringing into an international marathon podium.

Ultra Legend

A late start. A hundred miles.

Begin at 30 and build a second athletic life around trails, climbing and endurance. The dream is simple to say and hard to reach: stand on a 100-mile podium.

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