{"id":76135,"date":"2007-11-09T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-11-09T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T07:11:12","slug":"nagano-prefecture-longitudinal-relay-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/nagano-prefecture-longitudinal-relay-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagano Prefecture Longitudinal Relay Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A relay race of the length of Nagano Prefecture will start its second day in Matsumoto on Sunday November 18th.  Fifteen teams of twenty-one runners will run from Nagano to Iida over the course of two days.  Last year&#8217;s winning team ran the race in a combined time of 11 hours 44 minutes and 10 seconds.  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Fifteen teams of twenty-one runners will run from Nagano to Iida over the course of two days. Last year&#8217;s winning team ran the race in a combined time of 11 hours 44 minutes and 10 seconds. 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