Runners set to face The Peak
MORE than 400 distance runners will be on the move around The Peak today, stretching their legs in this year's In Sport Freedom Products Fat Choy Run organised by the Ladies Road Runners Club.
The event starts at 8.30 am from outside the Old Victoria Hospital on Barker Road.
Traditionally, the approximately six-kilometre race attracts Hong Kong's top distance runners looking for a bit of a workout after the Lunar New Year festivities.
And today's race is no exception with in-form Roberto De Vido and Maggie Chan Man-yee of Watson's Athletic Club hot favourites to take the men's and women's titles after sweeping all before them this season.
De Vido has already won both Hong Kong's half-marathon races this season and 10 days ago swept aside the opposition in the inaugural beach run from Repulse Bay to Deepwater Bay and back.
Only Martin Peace, who has not had the best of luck this season, has any chance of staying with the flying American who should be a fair bit faster than Simon Parsons who won the race last year in 32 minutes and three seconds and 1993 winner Wong Ip-chor of Tsuen Wan who won in 31:17.
Both De Vido and Peace will be competing in this year's London Marathon which will be held on April 2.
Although race entries have already closed, the organisers will accept late entries at a cost of $80.
