Action Asia Sprint 2007 Race 5 - Discovery Bay
Date: 29-April-2007
Time: 1:47
Overall: 139 / 295 Finishers
Men's Team: 11/17 Finsishers
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Showing posts with label Trail Running. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trail Running. Show all posts
Sunday, May 06, 2007
AA Sprint - Discovery Bay
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Adventure Dispatches Around The World
While searching for information about Gobi March, I bump into a brilliant journal of 2 girls and 2 guys from Hong Kong who completed the Gobi March this year. They were very much like you and me, taking part in Trailwalker, Action Asia Challenge, AA Sprints on the weekends, then one day something compell them to sign up for this notorious event. The blog is a chornical on how rucksacks displaced handbags, highheel turned vibram and city girls turned ultra atheletes. Take a good read!
Congradulation to Alex who completed his first sprint distance triathlon in Finger Lakes, USA. He started his triathlon training about the same time I started my swimming training, so as it said we were virtual training buddies. The last few months. Good luck with your journey to be an Ironman.
Then there is ahdont experimenting with his own series of whiskey desert. Well done for passing your multi-engine license! (not that I know what that is.)
Kin is half way through his journey of cycling from Lhasa to Kathmandu. I can't help but be envious, "I smile the whole way when I was biking away from Lhasa. It feel like as I was still a kid and got a new toy."
When you are struck in a dull office slaving away, don't forget to google "adventure" for a mental getaway.
Back to The Trail Running Season
Well I just want to write something to get rid of the Ironman post. It was nice to be able to write a few nice posts with the Ironman but it always pains me a bit for not being able to swim there. Also while I am with my current job, it probably would be impossible for me to train for a full Ironman, that is the reality. And even if I can do I really want to? I am always more into trail running than marathon running, mountain biking than road biking, big wall rock climbing than technical sports climbing, adventure racing than triathlon. The only thing that I will give it to the on-road endurance sports is the people in it, they have a far stronger mental strenght than I can even fanthom. Anyway, it was good to see the Trail Running season coming back. This year, I am actually bothering to do the Trailwalker for its full 100km length. Well I am the team leader (as in my name won the lottery draw) so there is no getting away this time, as no team can change the team leader. I am doing it with Alain, Alice and Wing and we targeted 20 hours for the finish. Alain, Alice, myself and a guy from UK which I met in Korea are also plotting to do the Gobi March in June next year! So long way to run ahead.
I saw a wicked poster during my quest to find a new trail running shoes today. Check this out:
Look absoultely nutter, I would love to come back from a King of the Hill looking like that one day. The shoes that I have in mind is a relatively new brand called inov-8, by a UK company, their shoes are totally aggressive, lightweight and designed to give full flexibility to the ankle, and let your muscle do your own protection. Of course the consequence could be grave if you ankle joint is not strong enough. Anyway, I will let my waffle take you this far, good day.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Terri Schneider's Training and Trail Running Blog: Terri's next adventure....off to Russia and France
Terri Schneider's Training and Trail Running Blog: Terri's next adventure....off to Russia and France
Isn't it nice to be a professional adventurer, I never even thought of that as possible profession when I was young, blame the education system of Hong Kong. So after the Gobi March, Terri Schneider, our adventure racer heroin decided to see a bit of Russia and France, it her own words, 'I think I'll go climb a moutain in Russia..... I may as well do a race there while I'm in Europe.' By that she mean climbing the highest moutain in Europe Mt. Elbrus (5643m) and then go an run the Tour de Mont Blanc, a 158km circuit around the Alpine mountain. What a harsh life!!
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Terri Schneider's Finished 2nd in Woman Catagory in Gobi March
Terri Schneider's Training and Trail Running Blog: Gobi Desert: Retribution
'Throw it all down. If we’re honest about what that looks like, to ourselves, we can sleep well at night.....Lay it all down for yourself and you will be a satisfied human and live confidently in your skin.'Wish all those competing in any race or challenge in life will have the courage to 'throw it all down' and be satisfied with the reward of merely doing so!
Action Asia Macau, here it come this Sunday!!
More from Freeyasoul on: Running Gobi March
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Terri Schneider in Gobi Desert - Racing the Planet
"why would you do something like that" sort of way, I stated, "I like to do cool things, in cool places, with cool people and this event fits the bill." Terri SchneiderI discovered this cool blog of Terri Schneider few days ago and is hooked to her daily update on a great adventure that she is undertaking. Terri is a adventurer by profession, taking part in all sorts of ultra running, adventure race, ironman etc. Right now she is running through the Gobi Desert in Xinjian, China, competing in the Gobi March as part of the Race of the Planet series.
Gobi March is a 250km / 6 days foot race that require athlete to run/hike across the vast desert unsupported, they have to carry their own food, clothing and gear during the day but do get to stay in a tent at night after each stage. In addition to Gobi, the series also races in Sahara (Egypt), Atacama (Chile) and those who has completed all three can take part in the 'Last Desert - Antartica'!
Sahara / Atacama Desert / Antartica
Terri has been racing strong for the first few day and had been well up for the first spot, but she was broken down by diarrhea problem two days ago, after struggling through the 5th day race, she is running fast again on the 6th day. She unlikely to recover the first spot but no matter, she said, 't's been a great adventure – cool place, cool people, cool event.' Stories like that is always inspirational (not that I will try to pick up more injuries in future races to write stories for you guys.)
Now onto the serious business, apparently you don't have to be superman to do the race, lots of participants are working professional who is simply looking for a challenge in their lifes. You need to train a lot to win the race but lots of people only equipped themselves with after work training. So I am putting this up on my 2007 or 2008 to do list!
More from Freeyasoul on: Running Gobi March
Sunday, February 05, 2006
4 Hr 26 Min 44 Sec
4:26:44 is the time it took me to finish the King of The Hill - Hong Kong Island Race. And this is my personal best finishing time for a KOTH full marathon. I have actually managed to cut my last year's personal record (5hr20m) by almost an hour!
The KOTH - Hong Kong race started off at Repulse Bay and ran a 30km grilling circle back to where it start, taking the runner as far as Quarry Bay, Mount Bulter, the Twins above Stanly. The weather was perfect, dry and cool. I turned up with a week of intensive running and biking trainning but it didn't occur to me that I was going to improve by an hour then. Things began to look nice when I found myself catching up with the tail of the half marathon runner (who started 15 min early) before the one hour mark. It has taken me much longer to do that last year. Then on the flat trail run above Quarry Bay, I found myself literally spinning though. Last year I had some imbecile grannies insulting me on that session that I was running too slowly. And so forth with every difficult session, it felt next to nothing and I was actually slowly pulling away from runners behind me. Finally onto the last test, at the Twins above Stanley, where I had a cramp on the 1000 steps staircase last year, I was holding my speed, edging so slowly toward the two runners in red shirt but in vane. Then I saw this white figure speeding toward me while I got to the top of the stairs, so I started charging down to Stanley. The white figure picked up speed and I had to keep raising my tempo. We were already 4 hrs into the race and part of me said I should slow down a bit as position meant little, but then part of me said I should give him a good fight and aim for a 4.5hrs finish. The latter part won, and I was charging down the final 3.2 km of catchwater footpath like I am doing interval training in the park. The guy behind me showed no desire of overtaking me, then I realised that he was using me as a motivation as much as I was using him to drive for better result. So I ran even faster like I got his expectation on my shoulder. We overtook the two red runners that I saw on the way up the Twins and one more runner who overtook me in the first hour and had kept his lead since. It was an electrifying finish as we spinned down the beach for my personal best, thanking each other for a good fight.
To download the google earth placemark for the race route, click here.
Congradulation also to Andy, my temp spark partner, who finish the half marathon in 2:30:04.
Just updated the google earth placemark with more details, you can play a virtual tour of the race. 
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Run Eat Run Eat...Ops No Climbing
Took 3 days off this week so I don't have to go to work for the whole week with the rest made up by the Chinese New Year Holiday. The CNY holiday has been bad for Gabs the Climber, as the climbing community took the wrong ferry for Tung Lung Island and found themselves in Krabi instead. A few others even got as far off course as ending up in Beijing, poor souls, they have to keep ice climbing all week to keep themselves warm. Despite the lack of climbing, the CNY holiday have been quite a revelation for Gabs the Adventure Racer. I used to keep saying that there are lack of trail running possibilty from the proximity of where I lived. I ended up taking a bus to Hong Kong island where the trail network is more complex. Only because I never bother to try. Well here is what I, Gabs the Runner, found out on Monday that I can quite possibly leave home (To Kwa Wan) and run to the Wong Tai Sin in about 15 mins from there I can ran up the insanely steep Shatin Pass Road. Uphill all the way pass the store that sells tofu custard. I kept running up hill till I got to the top of Kowloon Peak (Fei Ngo Shan) then a gentle downhill passing some out of breath hikers takes me back to urban pollution. A nice run that last about 2.5 hrs.
Route of Trail Running on 2nd FebOf course finding a new trainning route that consist of McLehose and Wilson Trail can hardly be called a revelation, the real revelation was that a 3 hrs massage in Shenzhen (for $100 only) really boost my running. Yesterday, I headed north to Shenzhen for a massage and today my feet weights nothing! Now that revelation alone should equip me for the coming marathon.
CNY has also been great for Gabs the Connoisseur, I didn't go all the way up to SZ just for a cheap massage, it was for the lamb feast! There is this lamb specialist restaurant called 'Muslim'
(穆斯林) that sepecialise in lamb, even for lamb kebab, they have 8-9 variety, and I am not talking about you can have it on a tooth pick (yeah, so you can pick your teeth right away), on bamboo stick or in big iron stick. I suppose they all taste difference as I only had the tooth pick kebab. Then there is alo Hand Grab Lamb (手抓羊) and Lamb Spring Roll. Shame it was a lunch, so we didn't get to eat the BBQ Whole Lamb.Suddenly I realised I have just been writing like Ah Min, except joining serveral of his runing and easting posts in one. So I better stop here.
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