Our club's participation in the Hong Kong Marathon 2007 continued from last year's 10th anniversary event. Six of us were running again and successfully raised funds for our club's redbox through sponsorship from club Rotarians who did not run but generously contributed in a spirit of support. Despite record no. of people who felt uneasy or required hospitalization care, all of us completed our run. Some of us even acheived their personal best this year. Thank you to all our supporters; wish everyone good health and spirit, and till Olympic year 2008....

PE Stephen Lai and VP Perry Yu arrive well before 5 am to find an empty start area for the race, and meet PP David Ting shortly after 5 am.
By arriving early they are able to take up starting-line positions for the first race to start at 5:30 am.

Here are our finishing photos retrieved from marathon-photos.com. Some of us certainly knew how to pose for a photogenic finish from experience while some of us while dashing through the finish to get our best times had our bib no. blocked by other runners.

For the record, here are the times we clocked: (from 2007 Results at hkmarathon.com)
Men's 10K	Club Citation		A triumphant Perry at the finish line. Go home and catch up with some sleep!
12466 Ronald Kwok 0:51:47	Best Time and Best Runner of the Club 2007
18003 David Ting 59:07	Best Motivation, for being the third person registering in his category and Best Stamina, for keeping his time under the 1:00:00 mark
18014 Perry Yu 1:09:12	Best Stamina, for keeping his time under the 1:10:00 mark
18490 Lawrence Chan 1:04:06	Best Performance, for having the closest time to break the 1:00:00 mark
A2129 Stephen Lai 1:19:48	Best Sportsmanship and Best Challenger for advancing into the 10K Challenge race
M2070 Li Siu Ming 1:08:36	Best Personal Record Improvement for a 6-minute cut from 2006 results

AG for Area 5 Jason Chan and other half-marathon runners enjoying their run.


The day's culmination at the Chinese New Year Banquet

At the Hong Kong Marathon 2006


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