Health & Fitness

Michael Phelps sporting the cupping marks from a treatment session. Photo: AP

Health & Fitness

Five weird treatments athletes do to keep in top physical condition

16 Jan 2019

Nic Tinworth. Photo: Action Asia

Extreme fitness

Defiant Hongkonger will ‘be damned’ if cancer treatment takes running from him

14 Jan 2019

Is waking up at 4am really that good for you? Studies say, well, maybe, maybe not. Photo: Alamy

Is getting up at 4am really that good for your health?

11 Jan 2019

Rod Dixon, winner of the 1983 New York Marathon, now inspires kids to get running just as he was inspired as a 10-year-old. Photo: Handout

Extreme fitness

How Edmund Hillary inspired Rod Dixon to pass on the baton

17 Jan 2019 33

Xu Jihao during the Xiamen Marathon. He was later found to have cheated. Photo: Sina Sports

Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon

China marathon cheats handed two-year suspension by authorities

15 Jan 2019 33

Is waking up at 4am really that good for you? Studies say, well, maybe, maybe not. Photo: Alamy

Is getting up at 4am really that good for your health?

11 Jan 2019

(From left) Allen Che, Constantine Metreweli, James Griffith and Gavin Joynt are ready for this weekend’s Trailwalker. Photo: Dickson Lee

Oxfam Trailwalker

Metreweli ran Trailwalker with the army; now he is the oldest…

15 Nov 2018

Ming Chau is taking part in Spartan Race, despite losing his legs to a rare bacteria. Photo: Handout

Obstacle racing

‘Nothing can really stop us’: double leg amputee takes on…

9 Nov 2018

Nepali athlete Sunmaya Budha training on Lantau Island, which has two challenging peaks that feature in many of the trail races in Hong Kong. Photo: Lloyd Belcher Visuals

Extreme fitness

Hong Kong trail running calendar 2018-19: choose your next goal

18 Nov 2018

Mina Guli running the New York Marathon, her first of 100 consecutive marathons. Photos: Thirst

Extreme fitness

‘When the seasons change, we’ll still be running’: 100…

8 Nov 2018

Edie Hu becomes the first woman since Australian Olympian Linda McGill in 1976 to swim around Hong Kong Island, finishing in 12 hours, 37 minutes. Photos: Splash

‘Euphoric’ Edie Hu completes round-the-island 45km swim

7 Nov 2018 2

Hu Yue, Niu Yu, Ma Yuanjiang, Wei Yunlu and Li Yingxia lost their limbs in the Sichuan Earthquake and ran the LT70. Photos: Handout

Extreme fitness

From seven days trapped by an earthquake to the Lantau…

29 Oct 2018 1

Lucy Bartholomew is one of the world’s top trail runners, but the thought of Hong Kong’s brutal stair climbs still give her goose bumps. Photos: Salomon

Bartholomew fears Hong Kong’s stairs ahead of Lantau 70 trail…

26 Oct 2018

Victoria Campos could become a household name in Hong Kong very soon. Photos: CrossFit

Watch: working out with Hong Kong’s top CrossFit athlete

25 Oct 2018 4

The recovering drug addicts of SKC island won the relay race at the Raleigh Challenge. Photo: Handout

Recovering drug addicts develop persistence through trail running

23 Oct 2018

Karl Kwok, CEO of Wing On, and his boat the Beau Geste at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. Photo: RHKYC

Health and wellness

Wing On CEO Karl Kwok takes business lessons from sailing

24 Oct 2018 1

Kate Rutherford (centre) won the women’s 10km Challenge at the 2016 Hong Kong Marathon – she is a triathlon coach who wants to create a pathway for more women to follow her. Photo: Nora Tam

The Adventure Trail podcast: where are all the women coaches?

15 Nov 2018

RUN helps refugees by encouraging them to get outdoors and gives them a sense of community. Photo: Handout

Health and wellness

How running has changed life’s course for a group of refugees

14 Oct 2018 1

Editor's Pick

Tom Evans, a British army officer, crosses the finish line in first place at the CCC. Evans beat last year’s HK100 winner Qi Min by overtaking him in the last 6 kilometres. Photo: UTMB

Tom Evans wouldn’t be at HK100 if not for beer-fuelled bet

Extreme fitness

18 Jan 2019