RunHangzhou

This year’s 08 Vasque Gore-Tex China Trail Tour (formerly known as the Hangzhou Mountain Running Race), will take place on the 25th of October 2008. The event is organised by the nice people at FX Outdoor.

The race is approximately 30k and run through the hills that border the city finishing with a run back across the Su causeway and over Baoshi hill. See route information here.

The race is a lot of fun taking in some of the best running trails that Hangzhou has to offer, it can be run as a 30k race or as a 2 person relay, other unofficial variations have also been tried.

If 30k is too daunting then we can recommend running the first 15k down to Nine Creeks as the most challenging part of the course and the best scenery, you’ll not record an official time with this option but it is still very much worth doing. Taxis and buses back to the city are easy from Nine Creeks.

Not sure of the details for this year but in previous years all participants got a very cool Vasque t-shirt and those who placed in events got prizes.

Full information is available on the FX Outdoor website here. Sign-up information (in Chinese) is here but  the language-challenged can simply mail fxoutdoor _at_ gmail.com.

Happy Running.