Hakone Ekiden（Long Distance relay race） Hakone Ekiden（Long Distance relay race）is held on the second and third day of each year in Japan. This historic competition was constituted in 1920. The running course is divided into 10 running sections from the start point to the goal and the total distance amounts to over 100 miles. Runners from 20 colleges compete for the first place and desperately try to pass their batons(named 'tasuki') to reach the goal the earliest. Since the only ten runners are selected in each college,all runners belonging to the college teams have spent their all college lives for the participation in the race. The race is filled with many touching scenes from beginning to end. Sometimes,some runners can't pass their batons to next runners because of unexpected injury or severe exhaustion.