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20 cent gym part 2: bench press
Remember the 20 cent gym I blogged about? It was about the Chinese ‘muscle beach’:, a bunch of people assembling in a Shanghai park to work out every day. Frankly, the Chinese men pulling heavy weights while looking angry can be quite impressive (but why do they take their shirts off?), I...
Shanghai Marathon 2009
With the whole Seoul Hangang Marathon experience still fresh in mind, I decided to subscribe for half a marathon in Shanghai. This particular run is quite a bigger event, taking place in the heart of the city.
Isn't Shanghai a terrible dirty city to run the marathon? While some might expect...
The 20 cent workout in Shanghai
A 40 year old Chinese man drives his motor bike with carrier filled with barbells, dumbbells and a radio to the park outside my Shanghai compound every evening. Upon arrival, he marks an area of roughly 40 square meters and unloads the heavy weights. Shortly after, the place is packed with...
MBC Marathon – the results are in!
Those happy faces are me and my collegues, Frank-Jan, Zdenek, Marten and Arjan from ING - just - before we started running our (half) marathon. Perhaps we were even happier when we finished - it would have been better, or at least more fair to share a before / after picture I suppose.
Together...
North-Korea vs. South-Korea match at Mapo-gu Stadium
The national football teams of North and South Korea have played a World Cup qualifier in Seoul today - which the South won by one goal to nil. Although the game was quite boring, there was a good atmosphere in the stadium, especially after Kim Chi Woo scored the first goal for South Korea. The...
Adidas MBC Hangang Marathon 2009
I haven't participated in a sport event ever since the Funda run in 2008 - a fun and fulfilling event, but I had no incentive to continue my healthy habits afterwards. I put my running shoes back on later that year, to find out that I would never reach a peak of runners satisfaction again without a...
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Spil Games Asia honcho with some ROK and PRC experience. Check out this blog for your daily photo feast and some background stories from Asia. Subscribe to Joop Dorresteijn by EmailRecent Comments
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