Great Wall Marathon 2012 - Beijing

A series of photos from the Great Wall Marathon in Beijing in May 2012.  A good 8 or 9km section was on the Great Wall with around 2,500 steps - this was the most challenging bit - but the view and general scenery was spectacular.  The remainder of the course was flatter, racing on roads and through a small Chinese village where we were cheered on by the locals!   I ran the half marathon (21.1kms) in 2 hours and 43 minutes and placed 182nd in the men's half category out of about 500 runners.  The organisers offered full marathon (42kms), half marathon (21kms), 10km and 5km fun runs - but the number of total runners was capped at 2,000.