Trail Mix | Hong Kong Marathon: trail queen Leung Ying-suet gets ready to hit the road again
- Leung Ying-suet will run the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon only weeks after finishing eighth at the HK100 ultra
Just four weeks after running the Vibram Hong Kong 100 (HK100) race and finishing eighth in a highly competitive field, Hong Kong’s top female trail runner Leung Ying-suet will be swapping her trail shoes for racing flats this Sunday for the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon.
Leung has improved drastically since the 2017-18 season. Always a strong uphill climber, she is now also much quicker and nimbler on technical downhills. This has helped her build up a strong trail season and she has multiple wins to show for it, including at the North Face 50km in December, followed by the 50km Hong Kong Trail Championships two weeks later.
Leung is ranked the top Hongkonger on International Trail Running Association (ITRA) points, and regularly puts in many hours on the trails on weekends, including a 70-kilometre training run in January before the HK100.
But all this focus on trails over the past few months has meant less of a focus on roads than in recent years.
