Last weekend I went back to Dalian. This time for the Dalian International Marathon. After several races in the mountains, I was happy to run again on the street, focused on speed. I arrived Friday morning and spend my time in the city after I picked up my bib. Dalian is a nice city. I like it there. The city …
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 …
Spring has arrived, depressive winter is gone
It has been a while ago since I wrote my last post here. Several things happened, but I was not in the mood to write it down. Around Christmas time, I focused 100% for the success at the Vibram HK100 race, which I also managed successfully. Thereafter all energy was gone. Physically and special mentally. This awful winter weather the …
First review of my new Suunto Ambit3 Peak
3 days ago, I got my new toy. Now I like to write down my first experience with this gem. I bought a Suunto Ambit3 Peak in black without HR. There was no stock of the Ambit3 with HR and I can buy a HR strap later. The watch was 2550RMB and arrived a day after I purchased online from …
Ready for the 100 miles !?!
I did it! Registered for my first 100 miler. Less than 3 weeks and I will be back in beautiful Hongkong New Territories and will run the first edition of the UTHK (Ultra Trail Hong Kong) which is also the inaugural race of the Asia Trail Master series, a new trail race series in the Asian area. In general it looks …
Vibram Hong Kong 100 – Recap
The recap went longer as expected, but just a day after this great event the emotions are still high. Maybe the recap can also motivate someone to set a target, go out and achieve it. Now, back at HK airport, sitting at Starbucks and still some hours until I will fly back to Shanghai, it´s perfect time to write this …