AAE - Sprint Tung Chung

"Watch out for sharp barnacles." - AAE Newsletter, (You've been warned - it will turn out bloody :)

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The run was going really well for the first 2.8km. I could see the lead pack and under 4:10/km pace. Then the little 20m swim caused a lot of grief. I thought free style would be better, but with no goggles; I became blinded by the water.. I came hard on the other side and hit the concrete stuff forcefully. Apparently there were a lot of barnacles and it ripped into my middle finger. I was bleeding profusely and 200m later I grabbed an Action Asia danger red/white ribbon (now really red) off a post to help stop the bleeding. It would require another 2.6km before I could get assistance since the gully provided little support. Once I arrived to the Tung Chung Road, the bleeding still wasn't stopping so I decided to have the volunteer call for help. Finally the medic team arrived and patched me up. GO! GO! GO! A starcraft was waiting for me up at the ascent...

I decided that I could still finish the race and not be last. So, it was 230m ascent to the top and back down. I passed a lot of people.. It's great because now they will have some video/pictures for their individual accomplishment. This blog after all is for all the Jogger Joe's and Jogger Jane's of the world. It wouldn't be not Action/Adventure racing without some blood. It's important to have the right equipment on this type of terrain. I did have gloves, but they were bike glove. I know I should be more careful on the 'ocean jump and swim to shore'...

Overall	Name	Finish time	Category
1	Clement Dumont	1:05:51	M 30-34
2	Cosmo Richards	1:10:21	M 35-39
3	Mark Western	1:11:18	M 45-49
4	Jeremy Ritcey	1:12:25	M 35-39
5	Seth Fischer	1:13:38	M 35-39
153	Joel LaBelle	2:03:40 (01:36:11 garmin)	M 40-44

AAE - Sprint Repulse Bay

I'm very happy that my fitness has increased over the last half year. I was able to quickly recover from the Standard Charter Marathon to run a quick adventure sprint the following week.

Being that I've been so busy wearing Vibram Five Fingers, I forgot where I put my Solomon trail running shoes :( I eventually had to grab my Nike flat road shoes. Not the wisest pre-race setup. But, I certainly won't wear barefoot technology on an Action Sprint. You'll see why after seeing the videos.



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Official Results

Finish	Name	Place
1:10:27	Clemant Dumont	1
1:14:10	Safrey Sumping	2
1:15:22	Jeremy Ritcey	3
1:16:16	Mark Western	4
1:39:00	Joel LaBelle	40
3:30:08	YAU LAI SHUN	235

Lantau2Peaks 21.1km

To end my 4th running event with ActionAsiaEvents for 2010, this run was super hard on the quadriceps. Todays race was very slippery and hilly with a cool blustery wind with low visibility at the top of Lantau and Sunset Peak in Hong Kong. I saw, including myself, people having a few slips. We came in 5th out of 12 team-of-4


Note to self: Rock + Knee = MAJOR HURT. This race was a way for our team to prepare for the Oxfam Trailwalker 100km death march in November. We finished the race as 'planned' before 4:00. Actually 3:57. I hope that we will be more strong on race day. A big thanks to the race coordinator for another successful event.





Ok, Here is a really 'quick-edit' compilation video of the race: