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Day 26 - 26 Apr 2008
Hsinchu Marathon.
What a fabulous day! A day of friendships and achievements, a day of sunshine and frolics, of humour and a fair dashing of pain. Thanks must go to Steve and Alex, the Hsinchu Massif, who organised a brilliant city marathon that boasted coastlines and beaches, paddy fields and country lanes and not a monstrosity [...]
The Thoughts of Andy Campbell, First-time Marathon Runner - 26 Apr 2008
This update is thanks to Andy who like many others was inspired/peer pressured into completing his first marathon with Neil.
Sat April 26/08, HsinChu
I got up at the ungodly hour of 5am plus 10 or 20 minutes or so of quality snooze time and after packing as light as possible and tying up my seldom [...]
Day 25 - 25 Apr 2008
Lugang to Dajia.
Starting at 3pm, we hope it’s an early enough start to catch the train to Hsinchu tonight. The Hsinchu Marathon has been a source of great excitement for runner and lazybones alike, and is scheduled for tomorrow. It’s been organised meticulously by Alex and Steve and we hear there’ll be lots of runners [...]
Day 24 - 24 Apr 2008
Mialiao to Lugang.
Dave has taken it upon himself to fly the flag as he runs the first six kilometres with Neil today. The wind is still strong, though less strong thankfully than yesterday, and I hope he doesn’t fly away on a gust, especially after he managed to find lattes in desolated Mialiao and brought [...]
Day 23 - 23 Apr 2008
Somewhere East of Beigang to Mialiao.
Yesterday was certainly eventful. But even having learned to always be suspicious of what the marathon may hold, and not to take quiet days for granted, we were not expecting another possible disaster to arise again so soon. As usual, the day began harmoniously and without trial. The only possible [...]