May 21, 2007
Shanghaiist survives the Great Wall Marathon
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Shanghaiist needs a massage. On Saturday we took part in the 2007 Great Wall Marathon, a race of 42.195km (26 miles), including two stretches of about 9km each on the Great Wall itself. The rest in the countryside. About 1,300 runners — a lot of Americans, some South Africans, Australians, Mexicans, Dutch, Danish, British, a few French ... and even four goats and an Olympic female mountain biker from New Zealand — took part in the marathon. We all started at 7.30 am ... and seven hours later, Shanghaiist completed the race, with sore legs and sunburned shoulder. But how proud we were!
We ran with our camera, too, and snapped some photos during the race. Enjoy!
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That's truly amazing. Big respect to anyone who can run for that long. Period.
Silly foreigners. What will they do next?
Cheers! to all that participated and KUDOS to the Shanghaiist who completed it! A marathon is no easy task, even if someone think its a buch of silly foreigners...these runner have fortitude! :) that said if course... I ain't that crazy. ;)
Umm. There was a notable omission in the list of runners' nationalities- were there any Chinese runners?
I only saw maybe a handful of them, that is why I didn't mention it.
that's awesome! congratulations. have you competed in other marathons in china? would be interested to know which marathons are considered the most popular or famous among chinese runners.