I had a nice run through the hills of Maokong. This is a great race with beautiful scenery, lots of well-supplied re-fueling stations and a cool Brooks running shirt plus gift bag. I’d definitely run it again next year and recommend it to anyone in the area.
My time was good enough for 22nd overall, but not sure of my age group placing as I had to leave early to attend a company hiking activity.
This was a nice run that went along the Danshui riverside path starting from Chongshin Bridge. Although it’s 5 minutes off my best time for a half, I haven’t been training much lately and still also got a nice glass trophy for 12th in my age group.. so a good morning!
A little better than last Sunday’s 10k and good enough for 9th in my age group and 37th overall of around 2000~3000 runners.
This was a nice run even though my pace is still a little slow. I’ve got another one this coming weekend though so hopefully I can improve on it.
This was a brutal run up and down some pretty steep hills. Having said that, I would definitely run it again because of the beauty of the course and it was also nice to get up into the cooler air higher up the mountain. The race was advertised as “cross country” but was all on tarmac which was a bit disappointing. Still a nice run though and good to catch up with Nathan, Arthur, Celestin and some of the other foreign running contingent.
This run was ALL hills! We were either going up or down with some pretty serious gradients in the mix. I didn’t have in in the legs to stay with the leaders and ended up 32nd of about 1000 runners.
It was a weird race with a few good runners, loads of walkers/joggers and very little in between. Even though I came 10th overall, I was totally on my own from 2-3k. It was also pretty hot and not very scenic so all in all not the best but still okay.
Although this race started at 6am, the temperature was over 30 deg. C with direct sunlight most of the way. My time was the slowest I’ve run a half for almost 2 years, but it was still good enough for 15th overall and 6th in my age group. Speaking to the other runners afterwards, they were also mostly 10~15 minutes down on their usual times.
This was a small 5k along the riverside pathway that I ran last Saturday and actually my first ever 5k – there are very few of them around here. The race was also free! all you had to do was register online and pitch up on time … no numbers or prizes.
The field was pretty small with about 1000 runners or a little less and mostly just recreational joggers. My time was good enough to win … obviously all the serious runners stayed home due to the lack of prize money!
I won a New Balance Jacket worth over NT2000$...
I had a good race this morning. Apart from the fact the course was short (again … they did the same last year!) and it was raining pretty hard, there was a good atmosphere. The event was for the visually impaired but most of the runners could see fine of course!
I managed to keep my pace under 4 min/k all the way averaging 3:50/k, which is my fastest ave. pace in a race so far. My time was good enough for 20th overall and 2nd in my age group.
