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Yepao Recap: Hickory 2024

A very nice weekend of runs through Hickory and tea plantations, through forests and up and down the local mountains of Sanyang.

Many thanks to our supporters of the event: Lululemon for some great award prizes, Sanyang Town government for some great media coverage and Wildhomestay for hosting everything.

A special shout out to Leigh, Peter, Vincent, and Annie for all the effort planning, cutting and marking the trails.

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Marked Routes

Thanks MirandaL and the Homestay team for marking out 3 easier routes.

All the routes start and finish at the cafe. Just follow the coloured arrows.

  1. Ask for a map in the cafe!
  2. Choose a route color and follow the colored arrows.
  3. Look at for the colored numbers on the trail showing where you are on the map. if you get split from your friends or need to tell them where to meet choose your closest number.
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2021 Yepao Recap

Extremely pleased this happened all considered and very lucky with the weather, air and everything else. Some serious climbs, some challenging downhills, too much food, not nearly enough photographs, and a great adventure through a well marked course in rural Anhui! Lessons learned, improvements to be made and looking forward to the 2022 Challenge Series. Details to be announced soon.

Very Well done to the challenge and award winners and many thanks to our partners for the great prizes.

2021 Fastest Female: YipingG – 5h58m – 27km (new course record)

2021 Fastest Male: PedroM 4h08m – 27km (new course record)

Hoka provided some great shoes and Wildhomestay some free weekend & Tanqi cycling experiences.

Adidas provided some great trail running bags for segment prizes.

The Clinic provided some recovery treatments and sports tests.

Also thanks to Norbu Naturals for their wonderfully fresh jerky and Namedsport for their hydration mixes along with Therabody for their recovery aids.

A big shout out to Leigh for all the great organisation and a special thanks to Peter & Vincent.

A homemade video of the runs.

Some of the selected images.