Worlds toughest Ultra (in my opinion)

First of all; I’m NOT planning to do this insane Ultra run, no worries. Today I like to write about an ultra run challenge which can be called „worlds toughest“ for several reasons. I will write about this run because it is more or less unknown in most parts of the world. The challenge is called „Senichi Kaihogyo – (回峰行)„ …

An impressive story about sheer willpower

Today I post something different. I met today two women on an impressive mission. Ann and Darrah are on their way to Beijing city center. We all can do it with the Chinese high-speed train within 5 hours from Suzhou. But they both walk to Beijing.   THEY WALK  And that’s not all. They didn’t start in Suzhou where I met them; No, they started …

Dalian 100k – recap

Last weekend I was running successful my second 100K race. After the Vibram-HK100 in January in Hong Kong, I went this time to Dalian, a beautiful small city in North-east China. Located directly on the yellow sea, the city is famous in China for its seafood, shipyards and the 100k Ultra-trail at the City Mountains. There are many mountains in …

Ready for DALIAN 100 ULTRA ENDURANCE RACE

Looking forward to run this Saturday in Dalian / North-east China. 100k ultra-trail in the Dalian city hills. It’s another UTMB qualification run with 3 points. The race has a distance of 101km with a total ascent of 5750m (acc. organizers). I have a gpx-file from last years race which tells me the ascent is just 4300m, so just run and …

Great day at the hills in Wuxi / Jiangsu

I had a great successful day in Wuxi last Saturday. Just one hour by car away from my home I joined a 35km trail run. Start was at 12:30 so we was running in the hottest time of the day. Too hot for many people, but for me it was perfect. I like it hot, a sauna feeling would be the best. 🙂 The …