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#V162 #3DayRace
[ Race Results - 3-day Challenge / 3-day Race ]
The Victoria 162 series would not have been borne if not for the initial idea to launch a 3-day stage race in Hong Kong. 3-day competitions have the fewest participants of all races - but RD has the highest regard for each of those who run the 3-day.
This year, we have 13 brave souls starting - and 10 finished. It is a small crowd, but a definitively strong crowd. Their background ranges from multi-stage newbies, to MDS finishers, to PTL runners, to UFO and OTW winners and even a 4Deserts runner up, 2nd only to Wong Ho Chung. Other than runners from Hong Kong, there are also participants from UK and Japan.
Special thanks to Decathlon Hong Kong who provided the Camping gears.
:: Day 1 ::
8am Friday - Start. A rather smooth day, all 13 runners finished under a scorching mid-day sun on South Lantau Country Trail. One of the runners even got a sunburnt neck to boast with. Thomas and Canetti boasted the 3-day race Day-1 champion jersey, while Alfair and Dora took the 3-day Challenge one.
:: Day 2 ::
Morning call was 4:45am. At 5:40am, Driver team took the runners from Tung Chung Campsite to MTR by car, then they are on their own to take the first MTR train at 6:04am from Tung Chung to Lai King.
They were off together with the N80 runners at 7am sharp, with the goal to finish in 24 hours in Yau Tong.
As we all know by now, rain starts to kick in as our runners were in the TMS area in late afternoon, and temperature dropped to the tune of 10 degrees in a few hours. All runners were caught in the rain and suffered from complete wetness and for some, hypothermia. Thomas did not suffer much as he took only 14 hours to get to Yau Tong and arrived at 9pm when the rain was really pouring down hard; and with more gears than other day race runners, most 3-day runners weathered the storm and made it to N10, but unforunately two challenge runners dropped out at N7 and N8; another was forced to pull out at N9 with a swollen lower leg.
With Canetti surviving a second onset of heavy rain at dusk, and coming into Yau Tong at 6:25am - just half an hour left on the 24-hour cutoff - 10 of the 13 3-day runners survived a brutal night, and earned the right to rest till 9:30am to start Day 3.
:: Day 3 ::
Around 10am Terrence, who was escorting the survivors from Day 3 Campsite to take MTR to cross the harbour, uploaded a picture of the 10 3-day runners departing N10.
It was the remedy that RD needed, whom was bombarded with quitting calls, transport, missing markers and luggage queries all through the night. Seeing the 10 souls survived the freakish weather was a booster and brought a smile to the committee. (although RD was irritated when picrues of runners taking the lift up to MTR station was also shared - they were supposed to climb the long stairs from Cha Kwo Leng Road up to Yau Tong Station).
At 10:30, the 3-day runners arrived at H0. It was a pure adrenaline rush to see them walking into the start point area, and the committee all came out to hug them one by one. An announcement was made to note the H25 crowd of their arrival, and a bigger welcome from the 200 H25 runners followed. Mr "Blade runner" Fung, a finisher of 4Desert himself, posed and snapped pictures with the 3-day runners. All runenrs waited for the H25 start and at 11am, the 10 3-day runners were off to get the "fun-run" 25km done and aim for the sweet finish.
On to Joyful Path, climb Jardine's, stroll to the Peak, down to Pokfulam Road, just half a Mt Davis to climb before one final descend into Kennedy Town, and that's where the promising land of H5 lies waiting.
Thomas finished just as strong as the previous days, smashing the 25km course under 3 hours an won the 3-day race male by a large margin. Alfair finished 30mins after, taking home the 3-day challenge Male Champion, Sunny another 30mins later and soon one after another, all 3-day runners made it back before sunset.
Dora and Canetti were the sole female survivors in 3-day Challenge and 3-day Race respectively and Champion in each.
All Challenge runners were treated a grilled beef steak after finishing, served on a clothed table and candle light with Victoria harbour just behind them, as a sweet reward for all the hardship they endured and all the CP food they could not enjoy.
All 3-day finishers were ushered to the Victoria Boundary Stone, as a fitting end to the Victoria 162 3-day journey.
:: 3-day Results ::
3-day Challenge - Male
1st Sze Ho Lee 28:24:53 Hong Kong
2nd Taro Okamura 32:07:37 Japan
3rd Ming Kei Leung 34:12:07 Hong Kong
3-day Challenge - Female
1st Dora Chan 41:33:14 Hong Kong
3-day Race - Male
1st Shing Yip Lam 24:57:25 Hong Kong
2nd Chi Shing Sunny Lai 31:17:59 Hong Kong
3-day Race - Female
1st Canetti Chung 43:10:08 Hong Kong
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3-day Race - Team
1st TeamSHIRAKABA_JP - (Shuichi Dejima/Takuya Wakaoka) 37:40:59 Japan
--- Lo Tsz Him 38:01:18 Hong Kong
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This is the album of the journey of the 3-day stage race runners - 57/80/25km, through a hot Day 1 and a rainy, freezing Day 2, and a "fun run" from Joyful path onwards to Day 3. Campsite at Tung Chung and Yau Tong.
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