Haidian District, Beijing, China

An important part of our life in the US was running races together.  As we are creating our new life here in China, running is still part of that.  We signed up to run a trail race with our friend Paul and other foreign runners we connected with on a group chat.  It was our first trail race and our first race in China, so we had no idea what to expect.  Turns out the ‘trail’ meant almost 2 miles climbing up a mountain!  It was much more challenging that we thought, even more so for Matt and Paul who did 21K.  But the whole experience was exciting, fun, interesting, and exhausting!