November 13th, 2016
About a month before the marathon in Honolulu, the marathon (or half marathon for me) in Guilin took place. It was a little over two hours by high-speed train from Guangzhou. Unfortunately, the departure station for this route is deep in the south of Guangzhou, so an hour's journey to the station had to be added to the train journey. The journey by train went smoothly, but unfortunately the famous Guilin landscape with karst mountains could not be seen. It was raining. And it was still raining when we arrived ...
My running colleagues from our company had booked a hotel very close to the start. The start documents were picked up quickly and I was able to find myself on the large list on which all participants were mentioned by name. In the evening we had "Guilin noodles" in a street restaurant. Unfortunately, the weather forecast for Sunday did not look any better and that was exactly what happened. In the morning it was still raining and it was not going to stop - apart from a few short interruptions.
Although almost continously raining, my final result wasn't too bad. I was happy with an official finishing time of 2 hours 4 minutes for the half marathon.
(Official Homepage - unfortunately only in Chinese ... )
For pictures pls. check the German version of this post.
Used running shoe: Saucony Kinvara 7