Do you make the steep centenary stairs like the demon as a mountain race? The first of the path in Great Chinese wall A couple of prints worthy of the great races is needed: fans who sing the slow rise of the runners, aware that the next surveillance tower will be just an tortuous tour as an epic. The Golden Trail World Series lands in a monument declared a world heritage from UNESCO to export a minority sport all over the world. And incidentally, they created another Aúpa race, with over 1,900 meters of positive irregularities in 24 kilometers. The circuit is still looking for formulas to combat the boom of the Kenioti, but has not succumbed to a mining path, the throne of a veteran like Patrick Kipngen and a newcomer like Caroline Kimutai.
The Golden chose the Jinshanling wall because it is located 130 kilometers north -East of Beijing, about two and a half hours by bus, further away than others. That’s why it is not a huge place and the local authorities have put a red carpet. Not only is it one of the best preserved, but the name means Golden Mountain. A clear marriage. This paradise of photography is in the province of Hebei and has 10.5 kilometers, of which just under six are open to visitors. And to the runners. It was built 650 years ago by the Ming dynasty; A task that required 31 years, between 1368 and 1389, although it was subsequently reconstructed between 1567 and 1570. There are 67 surveillance towers, more or less one every 150 meters.
Him monument It is part of the DNA of Chinese culture, its method to keep the invader at bay, especially the Mongolian. “For me, the wall means perseverance”, summarizes Miao Yao, the star of the Chinese path, which transformed the presentation of the eve to the event, a discreet act in other parts of the planet, to a party. When the circuit announced the race months ago, it collected a menu at affordable prices of 1,500 meters of positive slope, but when the athletes recognized the circuit between Tuesday and Wednesday they discovered 400 400, of the top: it will be that the GPS does not calculate the rise between the artisanal steps, each with its size, with an almost simple touch with the heat to climb. This forces to decide every in the way the step extends: those who exceed in every phase, if it compensates the race or it is better to walk. A tension that exhausts the strength and sight, necessary for the shortcuts: overcome them from a close side prevents and runs away to continue to advance. “I appreciate the privilege of running in this monument. I hope you honor the race, even if it is difficult.” Thus closed the director of the circuit, Greg Vollet, the briefing previous.
Since the six kilometers of wall are in the first half of the race, the advice had to maintain the strength for what would arrive later. The women arrived there, but the Keniotes hit the motorcycle. Not only Joyce Njeru, the general winner of the General, but two versions threatening to improve it. Kimutai and Joyline ChePngen, winner of last year in the cathedral of Sierre-Zinale and in the final, landed in Beijing on Thursday evening after a delayed journey from vaccination permits, but they gave the same lack of acclimatization: a pair of soft training and disorder. The victory in the provisioning of kilometer 12, the principle of the real trap: a strong profile of Sierra in the center, a fruit salad of short climbs with criminal slopes that it costs even measuring. In part because it does not give time: only 200 meters and the same slide downwards, with rough ground due to the lack of rain that does not allow you to stop. Pure Kenya.
Those open slopes between orange ribbons show distances, which were not abusive. Kimutai won in 2h39m14s; At 2m12, Chergen arrived, a podium that closed Madalina Florea at 3m59s, the silhouette that Sara Alonso saw, which ended fourth at 5m04s and leaves the Asian double as a general leader after winning in Kobe. The perseverance of the Miao value, which did not hide the national mission of fighting the victory, is fifth, while Njeru retired due to stomach problems. Malen Osa remained in the wall after a cross between cramps and falls to which, unlike Japan, where it was third, it could not turn around.
Patrick Kipngenowho holds his trophy as a winner while waiting for a tourist three -year -old to bring him back to the hotel, he speaks of the most difficult street of his life. The winner of the four golden races in Asia from his landing in 2024 has prompted the experience to let the new generation, that of Timothy Kibett and Samwel Kiprich, exploded after the wall to go up to the head at kilometer 14 and not look back, a fugal record of 2h13m05s. He was followed by his squire, Filemon Kiriago, who repeated Kobe’s second position, this time only 37 seconds. The third was the Swiss Joey Hadorn, who gave a master class that lowered the stairs and reached 58. The hardness of the slopes and the Fide forces after the battle six days ago in Japan generated a narrow fight. Aitor Blanco (15th) and Fabián Venro (16th) were the best Spaniards after a top 10 with five kenioti.
In the wall he did not win the race, but he lost. And it was the reason for everything, a dream that the Keniots made them. Tourists hallucinated by seeing them in half an hour from a tour that tourist agencies estimate in three. Even the vendors of drinks and memories that almost all surveillance tower take, including the steps in which there is almost no foot. Imagine your reference cathedral and add elite athletes who cross those steps as if it were a garden. The circuit, which signed an agreement with Warner Bros to take advantage of sport globally, may have found your ball. Because those geeks traveling the mountains have conquered a scenario as known as the moon.
