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Matthew Tse completes The Sowers Action Challenging 12 Hour Marathon
The Sowers Action Challenging 12 Hour Marathon covers Section 3-8 of Hong Kong’s famous Wilson Trail starting at Yau Tong and finishing in Tai Po. Along the way you can enjoy spectacular views of Sai Kung, Pak Sha Wan, Kowloon, Kowloon Reservoir and Shing Mun Reservoir – that’s if you have time to stop and appreciate it! It is quite a challenging trail as you not only have to run uphill and downhill but also the entire track is uneven with rocks and boulders throughout. The most challenging part of the course is to run a distance of 544 m up Fei Ngo Shan.
My original target time back in August was 7 hours 30 mins. The farther I ran, my targets were reset to 7 hours, then 6 hours 45 mins, and finally 6 hours 30 mins (and dreamed to make sub6). Estimated times are set carefully for each section of the trail and have to be measured throughout the race. At 8:15am On 7 November the race began . I ran on and on. For the first 24 km, I felt pretty good because I found myself 25 minutes ahead of schedule, according to the estimated times. However as the sun approached midday, I felt like I was falling from heaven to hell. Different parts of my body began to hurt forcing me to frequently stop and stretch. When I reached the last check point on the top of the hill with just 4 km more walking down the uneven stone steps, I felt like I was running on empty. At this point, I could have chosen to give up running and start walking instead, the probable result being a finishing time of over 7 hours (ranked about 100th). My right thigh hurt tremendously and left thigh yelled in distress, both warning me that they were not going to take it anymore. I was taking the risk of failing the completion in the last part of the course. I told myself that I didn’t train for over 200km to walk this race. My muscles silently accepted. I began to jump and run. From that point to the finish line I must have passed about 30 runners. When I reached the finish line, I was obviously delighted, finishing in a time of 6 hours, 24 minutes and 53 seconds.
In doing this, I successfully raised $5000 for Sowers Action, a charity which focuses on improving educational infrastructure in rural China. More information about the race can be found here: http://www.challenging12hours.org/en_index.html
What next? I have planned a tight schedule of running the 42 km Taipei Marathon on 19 Dec 2010, HK Marathon on 20 Feb 2011 and finally the Round-the-Island trail 65km in April 2011. Wish me luck!
[ 本帖最後由 MatthewTse 於 2010-12-9 17:38 編輯 ] |
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