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more trails are disappearing under
the concrete steps. This is a sad
fact, but, on the bright side, as a
Hong Kong based runner, I found
myself better equipped for running

and could carry on running – Hooray! But keep an eye on those
rocks!

On the next day the Award ceremony was held in Three Pagodas
Court Hotel’s ballroom. Top 10 finishers, male and female, received
very useful and valuable gifts from
the sponsors. The finishing touch
was a lavish banquet with variety
of local dishes including plenty of
vegetarian choices.
I highly recommend this race and
I would love to do it again next
year. The rumour has it that the
route may be further improved to
include even more beautiful mountain trails. Let’s wait and see!

Happy running!
Olya Korzh
down the steps than most competitors and managed to improve my
position by a few points on that
section.

Soon we reached a small village
and CP3. A quick refill and refuel
and on to a somewhat monotonous switchback road dotted with
small rocks. It is very easy to trip
over small rocks as they get under
your feet and it is impossible to
keep an eye on all of them. Running down this long village road,
turn after turn after turn, my mind
wondered to places far-far away
up until the moment when – bang!
– I found myself flat down on the
ground busy identifying the exact
location of pain and wondering
how bad the damage was. A
fellow-runner kindly stopped and
helped me on my feet. He was
really super nice and helpful, and
I wish I remembered his name
to thank him here. After slowly
getting up and taking a few timid
steps, it seemed like this time I got
away with scratches and bruises
and just a little blood shedding

At CP4 the race medic kindly
offered to clean my wounds, but
I was not in the mood for any
cleaning with just one hill left to
climb before the finish. Sharp turn
right and up the hill. This hill may
look like a little pimple on the race
elevation map, but don’t be fooled,
because this is when the fatigue
kicks in and it really gets to you.
The climb was hard, but I could
smell the finish line already. Soon
the trail rejoined with the original
Section 2 and back tracked for
some time. A flat stone-laid country park trail which would favour a
marathon-fit runner, down many
flights of steps, some more steps,
a right turn, and finally back into
the town and on to the finish.

The race ended at the Three Pagodas Court Hotel just a couple of
blocks away from the Start. There
was a red carpet, loud music, a
stage for photo taking, a white wall
for runners’ signatures, a fashionable lime green Li-Ning jacket for
each finisher, and a real feast of
freshly cooked food, fruit, drinks
and snacks at the finish.

© Shanghai Running 2014

Team Salomon Hong Kong

TOP 5 MEN RESULT– 50km
Ultra SkyMarathon®
Bed Bahadur Sunuwar (NEP)
6h14’53” (CR)
WANG Shao Lu (CHN) 6h45’22”
CHEN Jian (CHN) 7h32’35”
MA Liang Wu (CHN) 7h41’38”
HONG Wen Xun (CHN) 8h22’46”
TOP 5 WOMEN RESULT – 50km
Ultra SkyMarathon®
Olya Korzh (RUS) 8h30’54” (CR)
YIN Ping (CHN) 10h13’39”
TU Jian Fang (CHN) 10h32’20”
YI Zhong (CHN) 11h12’51”
LI Hong Lin (CHN) 11h57’34”

RACE WEB-SITE: http://www.
dali100k.com/

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