After a very exiting weekend in the Gobi desert I’m on the way home now to recover for 3 days. On Thursday I have to travel again. The Guizhou100 run is waiting for me in a few days. But this is a different story, probably the next one. Now i want talk a little bit about my successful run in …
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)„ …
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 …
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 …
Vibram Hongkong 100 Ultra-trail (Part 1)
Time is running and in less than 24 hours I’ll be on my way to Hongkong to take part at the HK100 ultra-trail. During the last weeks I ran 2 more marathon, the one in Zurich at new year night under hard climate conditions (-10°C, ice and snow). But it was a very nice experience to start at midnight surrounded …