Emotional Tsang sets Wilson Trail FKT by just 45 seconds despite running out of food and water
- Stone Tsang Siu-keung targets sub-10 hour 78km Wilson Trail and beats expectation by just 45 seconds after digging deep in his darkest hour
Stone Tsang Siu-keung set the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the 78km Wilson Trail in nine hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds. The feat was part of his training to run the 298km Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge (HK4TUC) in under 50 hours.
“It was so magical. It was why I was so emotional,” Tsang said.
Tsang ran the route in reverse. The final section of the Wilson Trail, where Tsang started, is located along on the Shenzhen border. The route then went over Pat Sin Leng and the Eight Immortals, through Tai Po, Shing Mun and Sha Tin Pass. The route then drops into Kowloon. At Lam Tim, Tsang took the MTR to Quarry Bay and finished by running over Jardine’s Lookout, Violet Hill and The Twins before ending near Stanley.
Stone was unable to find a record as not many people run the whole course or bother to connect the sections by MTR, let alone in reverse. The fastest time he could discover was set by Tom Robertshaw when he ran the HK4TUC in 14 hours in 2017. So Tsang set himself the goal of running in under 10 hours.
“I had a quite smooth first 50km – I finished in under six hours. But the situation after I passed Sha Tin pass ... I was feeling quite hot all the way to Yau Tong,” Tsang, a member of The North Face Adventure Team, said.