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running in September

Hi all,
it's still getting hotter, but I'm headed for cool Germany, and after that, looking forward to run in Korea in Sept. I would like to run on the 7., and the two following week-ends, and preferably not the DMZ run, it is too far from Seoul, and I hated the bus last time I did it. Where are you guys planning to run. Is the race at Namsan on the 13. any good? When's Terry Fox this year? Cheers, Juergen

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Permalink Reply by Crystal on July 3, 2008 at 7:45pm: Hello Juergen,

Here are some races that I might do in the late summer and early fall.

I found them on the Korean site:
http://www.roadrun.co.kr/schedule/list.php

Nike race Aug31 in the city! 10K
http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/humanrace/index.jsp

Misari - Seoul motorboat race course area (NE Seoul) Sept27 half/10K/4K (Make a PB as maybe you've never ran a 4K race!)
http://marathon.runningworld.co.kr/

Sept28 World Cup full/half/10k/5k
http://tourmarathon.com/

Oct5 full/half/10k/5k one/3 Korean kingdoms: Seoul, Baekje, Gyeongju, all sponsored by the newspaper Donga Ilbo.
http://marathon.donga.com/baekje.html

Oct12 full/half/10k in the city! HiSeoul Marathon
http://www.hiseoulmarathon.co.kr/

Oct26th THE RACE TO RUN IN KOREA! Chuncheon full course marathon!!
http://marathon.chosun.com/eng/

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Permalink Reply by juergen wittstock on July 3, 2008 at 8:09pm: Hi there,
Misari is definitely on my list, it is the last day of my stay in Korea. Only Sept., so the others are not possible. I found a lot more on the Korean site, so I hope we can do more. Keep in touch!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Crystal on July 3, 2008 at 8:24pm: DMZ on Sept 7th! I think I'll definitely run it. Here's the link:

September 7th- DMZ International Peace Marathon
(Full, Half or 10km)
http://www.dmzrun.co.kr

From their English site:
Marathon Information
Date : September 7 (Sun), 2008
Place : Gosukjeong, CheorWon-gun
Course : Full course(42.195㎞), Half course(21.0975㎞), 10㎞ course
Host : CheorWon-gun, Hankook Ilbo
Superintend : CheorWon-gun Sports Council, Sportain Co.
Sponsor : Glami Co.

Free suttel buses will be Seoul Station, Jamsil Main Stadium station, Yeoinaru station,
Rowon station, Kangnam express bus station, etc on 9/7(Sunday) 2008 at am 5:30
(More information call 02-723-1666~7, 02-3210-1666~7)

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Permalink Reply by Crystal on July 3, 2008 at 8:25pm: Oops I just re-read your post about not wanting the DMZ, but there is a shuttle^^; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by juergen wittstock on July 3, 2008 at 10:38pm: And they changed the time to 5:30, which means that you can go to Seoul Station by train, not running as I did last time... I will consider. Do you think this is the best race on that week-end?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Crystal on July 3, 2008 at 10:59pm: Juergen,

I'm not sure. Sometimes I cannot tell for sure where the location is. And I want to run a DMZ race as I have not ran one of those yet.

I also saw one on Sept 7th for 한양대옆 살곶이체육공원 which is in front of "Hanyang University" I think, but I'm not 100% sure.
Here's the website, which takes some looking around as it isn't the primary page of the site:
http://morerun.net/

Also, there are races in Daejeon, Busan, and Gyeongju (south), and Chuncheon (NE) and Jangsu and Gwangjin (not sure where those are). Daejeon is just 1 hour on the KTX....

Instead of the DMZ another closer one to Seoul might be Goyang Marathon (I think near Ilsan just NW of Seoul, and you get MP3 sunglasses): goyangmarathon.com

I hope this helps!:),
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