The Red Bulletin June 2019
Ultra Gobi Poole: “The night-time temperatures brought debilitating cold and hypothermia for many, so runners would leave checkpoints with sleeping bags wrapped around their bodies. Ironically, wind – or feng – plays a notable part in Chinese medicine and is regarded as a ‘pernicious influence’ that can cause disease, but not hypothermia. So, while Western competitors battled the cold with every item they owned, it wasn’t uncommon for Chinese runners, under the guidance of doctors, to head out in little more than shorts and a T-shirt.” Carnegie: “On the second night of sub-zero temperatures, James was close to hypothermia when he stumbled into the rest-point. Medical staff monitor the runners, and cola bottles filled with hot water were placed around him, but it soon became clear the Chinese definition of hypothermic is different to that of UK medics. Hypothermia is defined as a core body temperature below 35°C, with symptoms including uncontrollable shivering and mental confusion. Both were present.” 82 THE RED BULLETIN
Left: a lone spectator stares at Ultra Gobi’s racetrack – a seemingly endless valley with the Tibetan Plateau in the distance. Right: although the race draws entrants from across the world, the majority are Chinese, reflecting the country’s growing interest in running and endurance sports. (The eventual winner was China’s Liang Jing in 85 hours and 46 minutes.) “Crumpled mountains look thousands of feet high, but are only a couple of hundred” Carnegie: “I learnt to track James using his footprints in the sand. Locating him and the other runners was a mission in itself. With such vast distances and inaccessibility, I’d encounter him, at best, once a day. Our 4x4 guide was familiar with this part of the Gobi, seemingly able to remember routes across river beds and between the valleys that intersected the course. Whether there was actually anyone there was another matter – our satellite tracker often indicated runners had taken inexplicable detours over dunes and gone off-course.” THE RED BULLETIN 83
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Left: a lone spectator<br />
stares at Ultra Gobi’s<br />
racetrack – a seemingly<br />
endless valley with<br />
the Tibetan Plateau<br />
in the distance. Right:<br />
although the race draws<br />
entrants from across<br />
the world, the majority<br />
are Chinese, reflecting<br />
the country’s growing<br />
interest in running and<br />
endurance sports. (<strong>The</strong><br />
eventual winner was<br />
China’s Liang Jing in 85<br />
hours and 46 minutes.)<br />
“Crumpled mountains<br />
look thousands of<br />
feet high, but are only<br />
a couple of hundred”<br />
Carnegie: “I learnt to track James using his footprints in the sand.<br />
Locating him and the other runners was a mission in itself. With such<br />
vast distances and inaccessibility, I’d encounter him, at best, once<br />
a day. Our 4x4 guide was familiar with this part of the Gobi, seemingly<br />
able to remember routes across river beds and between the valleys<br />
that intersected the course. Whether there was actually anyone there<br />
was another matter – our satellite tracker often indicated runners<br />
had taken inexplicable detours over dunes and gone off-course.”<br />
THE RED BULLETIN 83
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