Running Guides and Trips
Trips
Ran and walked with Marjan to the South (cheap) entrance to the Ghezira club, circled the race track one and a half times, and left through the expensive Northern club section (that one can enter without problems from the South, no more ticket controls, no questions asked when leaving through the Northern entrance). The Northern part of the club is for the posh and asks for LE 100 for a day pass,...
it had to be started some time so after yesterday's walk in Wadi Degla I went out today for a run along the Nile river bank. The running itself is not really a problem, plenty of broad side walks, not too busy, yes regular crossings of very busy streets but with a little practice...I barely escaped being hit by a car once but that was my own fault by definition: must have...
Richard's version:http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2012/04/20/as-it-is/bulls-eye-view--keeping-the-pace/234005.html Richard wanted to run to Last resort, to attend then Sun dance festival, support his flatmate Sam, and get running a 100k done and over with after not succeeding during the last Annapurna100.I decided to join, to support Richard, and for the same "get that 100k done" reason. The 100k distance marker from Kathmandu on the Chinese border road is right next to the entrance of the Last Resort, so that is...
Kathmandu/Patan city running: four World Heritage sites, Saddhus and Monks, Sewers and Slums, Palaces and Bazaars
Kathmandu valley, Nepal
Running | 19.9 miles
Running | 19.9 miles
World Heritage Sites in Kathmandu Valley http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/121This run had two interrelated aims: 1. Do a run in the spirit of Jan Knippenberg, the pioneer of Dutch ultrarunning. One of his best known taglines is "Running is not a sport but a way of travel during which mind and body are in constant motion" (1987, statements like this resulted in a guru like status....). If this is true, why don't we run if we explore the...
The Dhampus-Landruk-Ghandruk-Ghorepani-Birethanti circuit as a trail run
Pokhara, Nepal
Running | 44 miles
Running | 44 miles
Racky for
the Annapurna100 2 January
2010
Nepal has a
100km run (www.annapurna100.com), but
a lot of it is on tarmac roads. Looking at the map I imagined a trail
alternative and this is my effort at a racky of that alternative. I’ve only done a good 71km and that took me
12:10 hours of running and another 3 hours of breaks (I depended upon lodges on
the way for food and drink and they take time to brew...
From Home to Lakuri Banjyang, on to Pulchowki, end at Godaveri
Pulchowki, Kathmandu valley, Nepal
Running | 25 miles
Running | 25 miles
An enjoyable run but $%#@^ hard. From home, picking up my Nepali running mate Bhimsen at our regular tea shop meeting point on Mangal Bazar, then straight out on the main road (six in the morning, no problem) past Lubhu and then onto a dirt road branching off to the left on towards a spur that leads to the knoll with the smart Intrek Lodge , then up past the Asian Trekking...
From home to Suryabinayak, Lakuri Banjyang, Bishanku Narayan, ending in Siddhipur
Kathmandu valley, Nepal
Running | 23 miles
Running | 23 miles
Great run, with two Nepali running mates. I picked them up in Mangal bazar close to the ring road at six AM, about 4km from my house; the inner city of Patan is a joy to run in the morning, much less so when traffic picks up. We went to Balkumari close to the Bagmati, and I showed them the route I had done a week earlier on my own to Surya...
Very nice run that took me about 3:30 hours. A pretty direct way to the edge of the Surya Binayak ridge, with quite a lot of unpaved roads and trails, then up the ridge at the valley side on a jeep road to a pass that is right above the temple, at the other side after maybe 200m pitch again a jeep road that is skirting from one to the other side...
A 23.8 km run from my house to the Bagmati, passing Sankamul ghat, then out East and Southeast until the road runs into the foothills of the valley rim and then returns with a bit of a loop, but retracing the way out for a substantial bit. More tarmac than I like but as they are secondary roads hardly any traffic, especially if one picks the right time of day
This is a 14,5 km run from where I live down to the Bagmati, passing Sankamul ghat a temple area hardly ever seen by tourists, then crosses the Bagmati on a suspension bridge and follows the river North , crosses on of the many bridges and returns on the other side, much on the river road being unpaved, one passes slums, river lining reed areas, finally crossing the river again on a...
Run from The British School in Sanepa, Patan to the gate of Dakshinkali
Kirtipur, Kathmandu valley, Nepal
Running | 11.9 miles
Running | 11.9 miles
The length of the trip is 19.2 km; took 2:32 to arrive at the gate of Dakshinkali. This run is mostly unpaved roads and trails, passing through Sano Kokana, a temple outside Sano Kokana overlooking the Bagmati, nice agricultural area to Kokana with its pagoda temple, then on to Bungamati with its Rato Macchendranath temple, down to a suspension bridge crossing the Bagmati, following the river past the 1920ies power house past...
