Kelly Fulton Started Running Marathon From his 21 as a Challenge of Manhood

42.195 kilometers of China.

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October 21st 2009
Last Friday the two of us boarded the overnight express train, Z29, from Yangzhou to Beijing. Around 6:30 a.m. we arrived to a beautiful, clear, crisp Beijing. The main objective of this trip north was to run in the Beijing International Marathon. Our traveling companions consisted of my running buddy Asunsun Halim, his wife, Gyu, their dangerously cute 19-month-old son Eugene, and four ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more