Description
The Country of Origin Trail Run: Hong Kong is a 30km route on Lantau Island aimed at bringing teams from different nationalities together. The Country of Origin Trail Run: Hong Kong is a 30km route on Lantau Island aimed at bringing teams from different nationalities together for a great day out on the trails.
With Hong Kong being a melting pot of nationalities the stage is set for an amateur National Team Format race on Lantau Island 23rd April, 2016 - 8:30am from Mui Wo.
Team Info:
Teams must have three members from the same Nationality (same passports) of any gender combination - no age categories, but all male, female and mixed teams are welcome, with a preference for mixed teams. Your team MUST start, run and finish together - LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND!
If you truly cannot form a team from the same nationality you may register a team from a different planet eg, Team Mars or an ancient civilisation eg. Team Mesopotamia. We will also accept Team EU and Team GB mixed nationality teams, but they will not be eligible to compete for podium results.
The race is a semi-self supported run/hike, with three water/food stops along the way.
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facebook.comFriends of COO - please read the below and act now by signing your name to the petition. YOU can have your say and make a difference by helping to protect our natural trails! 🙏🏻 Many thanks to the Concern Group on Concretization of Hong Kong Natural Trails 郊遊徑石屎化關注小組 and Stone Tsang for their tireless efforts and work.
Pssst.... Registration opening in September!
Hi everyone! The 2106/17 HKTRA are here and COO has been nominated for 'Best Race' this year after winning 'Best New Race' last year. If you enjoyed yourself at the event, please vote for us, and for our sister race The 9 Dragons for 'Best New Race'. Thanks!! 😁
**BEST COSTUME RESULTS** Hi all and apologies for the delay in announcing our winners. This year we've gone for two categories - 'People's Choice' as voted for by YOU, and 'RD Selection' where we choose our favourite as the race organisers. Very happy to announce that the Philippines have won the People's Choice category with the most likes and hearts (three Icebreaker hoodies!), and Japan have been awarded the 'RD Selection' prizes (three bottles of champagne)! Both teams win automatic and free entry to next year's event. Well done! Please message us for details of how to pick up your prizes. Thank you to EVERYONE who came in national dress this year and helped to make COO the kind of race we have all come to know and love. We can't wait for 2018, but in the meantime we (RaceBase) have The Great Relay coming up in September (open now!) and The 9 Dragons in Feb.
We would really appreciate you voting for COO as 'Best New Race' in the Hong Kong Trail Running Awards for 2016/17. All the details are below and you can email hktra@gonerunning.hk before June 5th with all your nominations. Thank you!!
**BEST DRESSED COMPETITION** Now that the haze of having a baby is starting to lift, we can get to the very serious business of voting for and awarding the 'Best Dressed' team of COO 2017 a spanking new set of very comfortable Smartwool HongKong hoodies! Please do tag, share, and clamber for those all important votes because most likes wins! Voting closes June 1st 2017, so the photo with the most likes on that day after 6pm will be declared the winner. Get voting!
Attention COO 2017 runners! All photos have now been uploaded to the Racematrix results page. https://www.racematix.com/site/#results:rac/Country-Of-Origin-Trail-Run-2017 There are also two RaceBase galleries on Photoshelter where you can purchase high resolution copies of the photos. COO 2017 (682 images) COO 2016 (672 images) http://claus-rolff.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/RaceBase/C0000kao75KOYlUQ Photos on Photoshelter sell for: Small (500px) HKD$30.00 Medium (1,500px) HKD$50.00 Large (2.500px) HKD$80.00 Many thanks to Racematix and Claus Rolff at Rainwater for their excellent and reliable event services!
Time for the very serious business of voting for and awarding the 'Best Dressed' team of COO 2017 a spanking new set of very comfortable Smartwool HongKong hoodies! Please do tag, share, and clamber for those all important votes because most likes wins! Voting closes June 1st 2017, so the photo with the most likes on that day after 6pm will be declared the winner. Get voting!
All the teams who made an effort to dress up for COO 2017! Photos by John C at Nam Sham. Please tag and share, and put your team names in the comments for an accurate credit.
A very creative video of teams in COO 2017 from Tommy Yuen!
Fabulous Finisher Photos!
Overall winners and Men's Champions of the Country of Origin race 2017 - Hong Kong! (Champion System Adventures - 3:08) / Photo by Claus Rolff at Rainwater
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