Because? No advance purchase of tickets, only to buy the March 21, 19:57 1230 train experienced more than 20 hours of bumps displaced 22nd afternoon to Wuxi. Wuxi is located in the south of Jiangsu Province, is a famous historical and cultural city, since ancient times has been the title of the town of fish and rice. Under the train weather a little gloomy, or inexperienced, I only wore a set of sportswear, hurry to bring the leather jacket on, the station can be changed into the subway line 1. Previously, I have paid attention to the public number of the Hui Running Race, I know that after getting off the subway line 1, there is a shuttle bus to get the equipment.
It was very smooth out of the subway entrance to see the event volunteers, but also saw the pink shuttle bus. Starting time is full of people to go or the whole point to go, but please rest assured that the subway to the station to come up are basically the participants. Less than 5 minutes to drive to the Taihu Lake Expo Center.
Get off the bus and follow the signs to the venue to pick up your bag. The Wuxi packet pickup was a sea of pink, so let's talk about it in pictures.
The signage you'll see when you get off the bus
The pink venue, which I probably went to late, was a bit chilly, as was the weather that day. The venue needs to brush the ID card, take a small single to the appropriate window to get the entry number
and the same as the North Horse are to bring the ring, but this can be removed and then bring nothing technical, but the brother is very patient hand to bring a variety of explanations of the steps to receive things
after receiving the entry number, you can go to try out the suit and storage bag, which is the face recognition technology
Wuxi Marathon black technology, press the button, take the clothes
After receiving the clothes, go to the transparent storage bag it
Ashes's arena is the first big
It is said to be a celebrity runner, take a picture of one
After receiving the equipment, began to woolgathering la, because joined the "move free" team, the boss generously
After receiving the equipment, began to woolgathering la, because joined the "move free" team, the boss generously
After receiving the equipment, started to woolgathering.
After collecting the equipment, we started to collect wool, because I joined the "move free" team, the boss generously gave the UTO uniforms, and a large bottle of vitamin C
The end of the collection, out of the arena; there is a wall of cards, you can hang their own small cards on the photo, to queue up, I'm not going to enter the
The end of the collection, queue up for the shuttle bus to the metro entrance, back to the hotel. Before the Taihu Plaza booked Ibis, Taihu Plaza Station, exit 3 can see the hotel; this is 4 kilometers from the race start, around the shopping malls, attractions, food are very convenient. The price was reasonable, and on the day of the race, there was free milk, bread and eggs at the front desk of the hotel. After checking in, we went out to look for food; in order to have a cup of tea, we had to go to Plaza 66. The next day is to eat, drink and stroll around and take pictures. Wuxi Sanfengqiao ribs, gluten buns, a hundred years old store of plum blossom cake, Wuxi noodles, Din Tai Fung steamed dumplings, soy sauce ribs, hot and sour soup, Taiwan has to put together a hot pot to drink soup and eat meat, if the crowd is quite recommended to go to Wuxi food net red store "old cattle nest", need to queue up in advance to call the number of per capita of 63 or so after the menu is attached.
Eating is a stroll, Huishan Ancient Town, Nanchan Temple, the ancient Canal, the characteristics of the Jiangnan water town is basically the same. This time of year, the South is really too cold indoors, sitting in the riverside tea store drinking tea, kowtow melon seeds, sunshine to see the pedestrians; a pot of tea can be Gueyou lie down for the afternoon, or more poetic.
Nightfall, after dinner and a walk to meet the most important day of the 24th. I rode my bike back to the hotel and started to prepare my outfit for the race and my food for the morning. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it. I brought a thermal blanket and wore long pants because I was afraid of the cold.
On the morning of the 24th, I woke up at 5:30am to wash up and boil hot water to cook noodles. Because when I came to the cold is still the body special period, my goal to finish the race on the good. I got up early, I even washed my hair hehehe. Put on some makeup, ate the noodles, rode on the Hello Bike pre-race warm-up 4 kilometers to start. Almost to the starting point, there are really a lot of people, but the site is quite small, not turn the feeling, but also did not imagine? It's not as atmospheric as I thought it would be. This is my first time running a marathon in the south, no experience, the weather is really cold, cold, cold. The weather is really cold, cold, cold. Although outside the jacket is still cold shivering. I envied those gods, shorts and short sleeves on the battlefield.
Save the bag, hurry to my F area. It's really far away from the big back. Because the track is narrower, the track is crowded. The promised 7:30 start. 8:00 more I just squeezed to the starting point of the pink arch, still not atmosphere, no song and dance enthusiasm like fire rhythm.
The Sydney Horse Race Track is still a good landscape, with beautiful scenery and fresh air. Track design is also reasonable, the first half of most of the attractions of Wuxi have passed, but also ran into the Jiangnan University, the second half of the crossing from ancient times to the feeling of modern cities, high-rise buildings, economic prosperity. Track narrow also has narrow benefits, all the way to the end of the crowd from the beginning is not lonely at all. The focus came, tin horse supply is too little, in addition to water, drinks, a small section of bananas, sponge pouncing, 30 kilometers after the energy gel, running slow I did not see one; 35 kilometers at the KFC tart is a highlight, just greasy and can not eat into it; supply is really not as big as our Northeast tournament atmosphere, eat a variety of, no matter how slow you run, you will enjoy the VIP service; both sides of the track Volunteer audience is not so enthusiastic, if not listening to music really feel super boring, no passion.
For the fastest runners, the Wuxi Marathon is too good for PB, the temperature is too good for running, (the second half of the race was cold because of a cold, I ran cold) the scenery is pleasant and not boring.
Although there are a few bridges on the road and a few slopes to run up and down, but for those who often run back to the Dragon, this is a small matter, not worth mentioning.
The full course map
The warmest companion: my brother (whenever I encountered a hill, my brother was pushing behind me)
That's how I finished the race, stumbling, cold and hungry. I finished 519, which is much better than I expected after yesterday's chatter about getting on a shelter bus. Still no highlights at the finish, haha. I think it's better to have a photographer on top of the arch to take pictures of the finish line, and a microphone to read out your number and name to congratulate you on your finish.
The hall where you get your gear is cold and gloomy, and you have to wait in line for a long time. The surrounding many runners are complaining, just finished running tired to death, but also freezing and so on, issued a bath towel quickly put on
Finish bag inside the finishers gloves
Seriously Wuxi Marathon experience in general, but this suit and bath towel is really good quality and comfortable
Ceramic medal front photo, we all take pictures of cherry blossoms, I'm just going to take pictures of the green
The race is over, make up a bowl of beef hot and sour. The competition is over. I had a bowl of hot and sour beef noodles and a couple of fried buns. High-speed rail home, you want to see the results of the scenery can come to Wuxi to try, like lively like my food or the North Horse good girl, hee hee.