Friend, Friend

Friend, Friend

Why you didn’t say a Good bye!

Your words are always keeping in mind. And I couldn’t realize life is so short and fragile.

Friend, Friend

Why you didn’t say a Good bye!

Your empty bottles are always in my ledge. And I couldn’t realize your son is crying like blind.

Friend, Friend

Why you didn’t say a Good bye!

Your heaven is so dry. And I couldn’t realize heaven is bright and peace like you lied down.

Friend, Friend

Why you didn’t say a Good bye!

May you rested in peace and let us realized life is too short and we have lived to life.

Gigi Wong 9 January,2017 

In remembrance of  Mr. Anson Lee and Mrs Lee (Brian's mother) in 2017

#byebye2016 #Hello2017

2016 continuous navigating where i am from 2015. It takes so long and it feels like not reaching the shore yet! Works is Another year of wrap up! here is my Top 10 in 2016:

1. March: Finish my first ever marathon in Nagoya Women's marathon, come back with a sub 4 result at 3 hours 56 mins. Great post race pamper by Charles, who acts as supporter, driver and masseur. We went to the Ise, Toba, the southest tips for the onsen holiday. Surprising my legs feel very fresh after the onsen.
2. April: Went to Kyoto with my Mom in April for Mom-daughter time. Now i knew that my mom don't like to stay in Ryokan style house. 
3. June: Finish my first 100km stage race with my best best friends Lyn, Evan and Frederic in the Gobi deserts in June for the 3 days Action Asia Mongolia ultra marathon race. 
4. August: Attend Susana's wedding in Santander in August, my best ever training buddies back then when she is in HK. She witnessed my first 70.3 half ironman races in 2008 in Hainan., China. We trained, pushed each other, shoulder to shoulder in swim and run. i never can catch her in the bike, still great great great memory. She is beautiful, the Spanish wedding set in a hill top restaurant with a gazebo. We arrives in noon time, beautiful ceremony with live string music. Followed a long lunch and wine o' clock. We traveled with Janice, Frederic (Fly from Norway), Evan and Lyn, a truly sporty summer holiday! We almost running, sun bathing everyday. We went to Madrid for 3 days then back to Kong. 
5.  September: Our anniversary trip to beautiful Monopoly where we stayed at the old trulli houses near Alberbellos. Escaping from the tourist places, driving to each cave beaches, eat the organic from the farm, feeling so energized. This man is making me happy everyday over the past 16 years and i love you! 
6. September: Entered my debut 100km Ultratrail race in Hong Kong, claimed the hardest and having the highest elevations of the race in Hong Kong - The North Face 100 #TNF100. I'm so lucky to get this lottery bibs and was selected for a 3 months intensive training with the North Face athletes under the The North Face Running Academy (TRA). I learned a lots about the skill set for trail running, how to use my running poles, how to go downhill fast and safe, knowing a great group of people with the similar mindset. The training is tough every week under the heat in HK, spent numerous of hours in the mountain and knowing HK is such a beautiful places. And it got me to a mindset that never stop believing myself, and never stop exploring. 
7. October: Struggle at works and i decided to leave. This is not the environment i liked to work, the people, the direction and a place that i cannot say have enthusiasm at all. May be i'm wrong, but this is my life i choose. 
8. November:  
9. December: FINISH my first ever 100km Ultratrail race - The North Face 100. Details to find it here: 
10. My niece was born - Hillary Hui (HH) the first child of Eric and Florence Hui, born at 12 Oct. 2016'. The first child of the Hui's family. The English name is suggested by me, the same year that Hillary Clinton is nominee of the President of US, it represent Hopes, Courage, Optimistic, Fairness. The the double H represent the Hui's family. 

Beach yoga on the remote beach on Lantau on last day of 2016

Another #getsetgoal #better2017 #newyearresolution #newyearnewme

1. 希望做一些有意思又快樂的事情
2. Start my Master degrees 
3. Well, its time for a Full Ironman 
4. Time to prepare startup 
5.  Learn Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism 
6. Start to eat green and clean (Once a week first) 
7. Start meditation
8. Reuse and recreate unwanted items
9. Explore some places i never reach before
10. Talk to people i don't like before 
11. Explore further, deeper of myself

Post 100KM body effect

How your body feel after running a 100km race (The North Face 100, 100km Ultra Trail race in Hong Kong on 11-12 Dec. 2016)

1. After crossing the finish line: Cannot speak, don't want to open my mouth, feeling hard to breath. Just change my top and wrapped myself a big towel and go home immediately. Cannot have the joy of finishing. On the way home feeling the sun is so bright that i don't want to open my eyes. 
2. After 3 hours: sleep, breathing is strange, still like in a dream. 
3. After 6-7 hours: eat 2 steam eggs, congees a bit, no appetite, legs is so stiff. Dinner no appetite. 
4. After 1 day (Monday): Walk is pain, legs is strange, difficult to walk downstairs, feeling pain. Want to eat rubbish. Feeling the sun is so strong and don't want to open my eyes.
5. After 2 days (Tue.): Swell, both legs and feets are swell, fatigue. 
6. After 3 days (Wed.): Went to Physio, massage a bit. loosen up the tight muscle. No appetite. 
7. After 4 days (Thur.): Can walk downstair properly still abit of strange at my right knee. 
8. After 8 days: First Physio to just loosen the muscle 
9. After 9 days: Diagnosis of ITB problems and have my first acupuncture 
10. After 16 days: Feel magical that i have no problem at all to walk downstair, say only 5 %. 
11. After 22 days: Run my first 5km. OK. Muscle memory still there. 

The North Face 100 Hong Kong

Everything starts with my stupidly sign up for this race after i come back from Ulanbattar in June. But the #guts, #determination and #preservance to FINISH today is not stupid at all.

Crossing the finish line at 25 hours 53 mins on 12 Dec. 2016 for this 100km Ultra trail race in Hong Kong.

The North Face 100 Hong Kong
Distance: 100km
Elevation gain: 6300m
Weather: Day 27 degrees celsius (feel like 33), Night 13 degrees celsius
Wind: 3-4 North Wind
Humidity: 54% Dry

The race starts 8AM at plover clove, i have already changed and my bag is all loaded with my power foods and more than 1.5L water. Charles drove me there with my classmate which made me feel comfortable and I'm not worried at all ;) I just need to tighten up my lace and i was urge to move to the start line 30 mins before the race starts. It is actually a good move to the front out of 1500 peoples with 100km and 50km mass starts for a better timing. After several photo taking, chit chat we starts. I'm excited and knowing it will be a long day, i'm actually quite relax at the starts. The first is a bit challenging as we have to run up to a 1:100 400meter slope to reach a bottom neck trail. So i ran as much as i can to try to get a good position.

Up to the Pak Sin Leng trail, i feel great, preserved my speed but run as much as i could and in the meantime i'm very careful to keep a distance behind the runner. i keep running with my pal behind Iris and Sally, they set a good pace and i feel confident running behind them. Before CP1, my pal Sally twisted her ankle and she ask me to leave her and then i just go. Feel bad about this, but i cannot do anythings. I found that I'm clever that i didn't drop my pole at the CP1, as theres tons of runner even within our own group and it will block the runner behind. So when i pass the CP1, i didn't stop and pull out my poles immediately and continuous to Session 2!

Why I'm doing the North Face 100

I made a plan in 2016 to RUN. Many first in 2016 to start with my first marathon in March followed the 100km on a 3 stages race in Gobi in June and to ended by the North Face 100km in Hong Kong.

I wanted to finish a ultra marathon after i complete the Gobi as i realized that the Gobi cannot called it as ultra. Any distance beyond 42.195km run is called an Ultra, so the Gobi is disqualified.

So i search on the internet and found out that there have a race called The North Face 100km and then i enter the lottery sign up, and surprising i'm IN. That was in August and the race is in December.

The North Face Hong Kong is great, they have teamed up a TRA The North Face Running Academy with the Elite runner Ho Chung Wong as a coach to trained 10 peoples who sign up this 100km race for 3 months till the race day and luckily i'm one of them! I feel super bumped and can't wait to just run flying in the mountain that i imagine the road is flat with a bit of sand, like HK trail. But it was totally not and i'm so wrong.

After i trained with #TRA for a month, Iris Chen one of my classmate told me this race is a UTMB points collective race. And i looked totally odd, what is this? I don't need points, i just want to finish a 100km RUN in one go so that i'm a Ultra marathoner. She said, this is not a ultra marathon, this is Ultratrail. What? No? What happened?

#TNF100 is a 100km #ultratrail individual race, one of the Hong Kong grand slam ultra trail series. Earned a reputation for being one of the hilliest and most challenging trail running races in Asia. Tackling 6,300 meters of cumulative elevation gain over 100 kilometers, to finish this tough challenge within 27 hour cut off time and have to cross each of the check point within a check points cut off.

So, never too late. By knowing the race i just trained is not what i expected that can actually run. i told myself why not spent this time to know further our Hong Kong trail and mountain. And why not Ultratrail? So, that's how i begins.

Friends in Mongolia

This Action Asia  - Mongolia brings in lots of friendship. Theres no better way to hang from day to night with your friends, sharing the Gers under 1 roof. Evan and Lyn travel with me from Hong Kong to this Mars, we have been travel alots together for races and this year is just so special we will be meet again in Santader, Spain in August again!!! love the time being with them :)

Frederic travel from Norway for this special trip too, he comes all the long way for us and this running in the Mars. Really misses him this year after he returned to his home town. Again, we have been travel alots in the past for races and some fun too. Taiwan, Phuket, Bangkok, China, Singapore, Cebu. And this year is so special again, we will be meet him in Santander in August and we will be visiting him in Norway sometime in Sep.

And i meet another special friend JC Ho, a miss i knew her at a running apps - STRAVA. We have been liked each other's activities and one day we found that we are at the same spot at the same time. Most surprizingly, we sign up this race and the airport is the first time we officially meet face to face. Love this kind of friendship. And we have been racing to each other, pushing through the second day. What a great race!!! xxx

Action Asia Mongolia Ultra Marathon 100km Stage 3 - 24km

The last desert and I survive!!

The wind keep blowing violently to our Ger the whole night making anyone cannot sleep. We have to wake up at 4:30AM no sun and lights with the sand blowing to our face. Thanks God I realize the map given is in larger scale and it would not like the previous stages meaning the distance while I could not sleep. The sun never want to see us today and the wind likes us. I don't wear enough possibly and I just keep telling myself you just need to run faster and look for big guy to shield. I run pretty awesome today despite my blood blister on my left foot and have a minor twist on my ankle but I fixed it immediately. I could not let myself injure as I will suffer alots under the cold and a possible storm!!! After the CP1, we reached to sand dunes, and a short climb up to the top of the terra cotta cliff. The most terrible steep down, I dare not to look down on both side as every little mistake will make myself fall😢. Slowly going down and suddenly I heard Andrew the man behind me falling with the loose sand coming over me, all of a sudden I though I would be crashing with him! Luckily he stopped!! We run over the bumps looking back the cliff from time to time and head back to a straight sand crossing to the Finish. Q emotional today with the weather and the scene. I'm glad is over and you don't know how much I miss the hot water shower and my mattress and a glass of water.
Running almost alone the whole journey, smashing back on my way. And I'm glad I finished this.