Hong Kong trader’s competition with former boss escalates to 100km Trailwalker
Charlie Landale’s half marathon race against his old boss has snowballed into a 100km ultra marathon like nothing he has ever faced
It’s hard enough running the Oxfam Trailwalker 100 kilometre race when you’re competing against hundreds of other teams.
But when your team includes your former boss, you better be ready to step it up a notch.
“It all started as a bit of a competition with my boss from my old company last year when we raced each other in the China Coast Half Marathon,” said trader Charlie Landale, who now works for Jardine Matheson.
“It somehow escalated from there and now we’ve got a team running.”
Joining Landale and his old boss Richard Roper, who is a managing director at Jardine Lloyd Thompson, are Karen Tse, a consultant at JLT, and James Mabbutt, a financial analyst at Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.