ATM 500 - Day 7: first week ends with 78 official team finishers!

The first week of the inaugural ATM 500 - Run Asia, Run Virtual team challenge is a wrap! For seven days we have seen great excitement throughout Asia and we are happy to see that no fewer than 78 out of 250 teams have already reached the virtual finish line, i.e. the 500 km mark. On Sunday, 22 teams joined the others on the official results board (see below PDF file), of course taking advantage of the weekend leisure time.

Team SoFARsogood from Singapore, consisting of Zen Chew, Sean Tat, Low Mun Cheong and Neo Lay Peng managed the quickest pace of those 22 teams with a total time sub-50 hours. This team also adopted a strategy of seven relatively short daily stints rather than going for an ultra long distance on any given day. Sean Tat ‘s 42K marathon was the highest in distance, but a time of 3:46 indicates a fine run, indeed! The Malaysian Baby Shark Dududu Team and the second Uglow team from Hong Kong, featuring a.o. Matt Leung and former Vietnam Mountain Marathon winner Sayaka Matsumoto also finished their 500k challenge with a similar approach.

People adopt the strategy best suited to their running characteristics. Several people even hike on mountain trails rather than run on flat roads. In the ATM 500 Run Asia, Run Virtual, all is possible. What counts is to cover a distance of 500k within 2 weeks.

The other teams who completed their journey today were: