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Shanghai

Shanghai is a popular tourist destination and China’s biggest city and global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings.
Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Other highlights are the Lujiazui skyline, skyscrapers, and major museums including the Shanghai Museum and the China Art Museum.

Historical landmarks are City God Temple and Yu Garden with traditional pavilions, towers and ponds.

Greg Nance's FKT Journey 2019

May 5, 2019

Shanghai, China

Dec 10, 2019

London, UK

In 2019 Greg is chasing Fastest Known Time “FKT” records to keep pushing my limits. He’s set the FKT for runs across Shanghai, NYC, Chicago, LA, DC, The Bund, Montreal, Huangpu River, Singapore, Malysia and London! On May 25th 2019 Greg attempted to set the Fastest Known Time running between Shanghai’s two airports: Hongqiao and Pudong. “It was a 35-mile (57KM) run across urban jungle – 3x longer than the distance between NYC’s LaGuardia and JFK – to traverse this sprawling city of 24 million. I covered the course in 5:46:00 to set the new #ShanghaiFKT.It wasn’t pretty, but got it...

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Culture Bridge Run - Kai Markus Xiong

Mar 12, 2017

Hamburg, Germany

Dec 16, 2017

Shanghai, China

Kai was not an experienced runner. But that didn’t stop him from exploring the historical routes of the Silk Road on his almost 7000 miles long „Culture Bridge Run“ from Hamburg in Germany to Shanghai! He went through 8 countries (Germany, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China) with the cold of Russia, the heat of the Taklamakan desert, sandstorm in China and crossing the Pamier mountains. He scheduled to run 50 to 70 kilometers a day so the whole journey would take him 240 days. Kai has a strong interest in China. His grandparents used to tell him stories about...

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