Oriental Recipe for Endurance Event
Ingredients:
1 x long run (42.2)km
5 x Perth-Central Park stair climbs (5000+)
1 x Oriental backdrop flavour (Great Wall)
Method:
5 x Perth-Central Park stair climbs (5000+)
1 x Oriental backdrop flavour (Great Wall)
Method:
Place athlete in the heat for around 4-7 hrs to achieve a nice to ‘well-done’
state of exhaustion. Reload athlete with lots of local carbs to achieve
maximum sensation.
There you have it folks, the perfect recipe for an Oriental Endurance Event.
It just so happens that here’s one we’ve prepared earlier…
Many of the summer events like the swimming calendar and the tri calendar are coming to a close so we thought we’d wet the running appetite by previewing the Great Wall Marathon. This year the event is held on the 16th of May so perhaps something you can pop into the calendar for next year, unless you happen to be in the region and marathon fit??? As the name suggests it’s a Marathon along the length of the Great Wall of China (not the whole length). It’s quite unlike any of the other great marathons (Boston, Chicago, London…) along the way you’ll climb up and down around 5000 stairs. If you’re wondering how many that is? it’s equivalent to climbing the Central Park tower (this can be done as part of the Step Up event) 5 times, or, for you King’s Park regulars it’s about 17 flights of Jacobs (Try pumping that out on your Sunday morning!!) But, like all the great marathons it’s more than just running 42km as you’ll have the opportunity to run along one of the world’s most recognisable structures. Now if you’re looking for results the pro-male winning time is around three and a half hours while the pro-women are around the four hour mark. This gives some indication of how tough it is, in fact any time under 4 hrs 10 min would have placed you in the top 10 finishers overall ! So when you finish you’ll have a new appreciation of the Great Wall and people will have a new appreciation for just how crazy you are. Upon completion you’ll have a T-Shirt to say you’ve finished one of the world’s great marathons and along the way have come to realisation that Emperor Nasi Goring and his army did a hell of a job keeping those rabbits out.
