No story of a foreigner’s grand win at a local Chinese race from me. At the Loushan Warrior Race, I “only” managed 32 of 55 km.
It was memorable, nonetheless.
The Chengdu Marathon is in talks to become a seventh Abbott World Marathon Majors race; I’m unlikely to get into too many of the existing ones and unwilling to fly to a city just for a marathon – so I absolutely wanted to run here while working nearby.
The hike from Dazhai to Ping’an is a great way of getting to know the Longji Rice Terraces (near Longsheng, north of Guilin). If you want to go guided by your own GPS watch, here’s a GPX track for it, too!
One of Guangxi’s great draws, aside from Guilin and Yangshuo, are the Longji “Dragon’s Back” rice terraces near Longsheng.
