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Thursday 24 March 2011

Urban Crawl - Sunday the 20th of March, 2011

After a late night and a sleep in, I missed my window for a trail run and decided on an urban crawl along a streamlined version of my Old Kowloon Tour route. Conditions were quite cool and overcast: ideal.

Lots of photos here guys, so get ready for the barrage:

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Overcast! Hong Kong Island

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Someone swimming in the harbour!! Not really my first choice of venue!

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A tree growing on top of an industrial building in To Kwa Wan

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Mobile Crane

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Quite an old industrial building in TO Kwa Wan, possibly art deco style?

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Passing through a section of footpath with some building works. I guess the roof of this section was 6 foot tall.... just short enough so I couldn't stand up straight!

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Streetside

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Deserted parking garage bordering on the old Airport site

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A mass of tangled branches

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Maryknoll Convent School on Boundary Rd

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A Woman's Volleyball Tournament at the sports fields along Boundary Rd

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
More urban snatches

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Pipes with some random items hanging in a plastic bag

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A doorway in Sham Shui Po with an awesome pattern

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Detail of the pattern

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Locals playing a Shanghaiese card game - I have no idea how to play this

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Confusing to everyone else as well?

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A park out near Nam Cheong on my way to the western waterfront

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A rusty gang-plank. Great colours and textures

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Reached the shipping yards in West Kowloon. A huge claw

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Three excavators neatly in a row

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
A man fishing with a handline between the dock and a barge

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
More fishermen. This time with rods fishing from rocks with Hong Kong Island in the background

20/03/2011 20km Old Kowloon Tour Road Run
Circumnavigating Kowloon

I must say that despite talking down road running recently, I really enjoyed this almost exploratory run around some of the less seen sections of Kowloon.

See you out on the trails!
~ Joe

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