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Hit the outdoors in Hong Kong for fun, fitness and friendship. Here, you have to simply follow the trend of running and runtheMTR to discover a fascinating way to explore the city alongside its lifeline, the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) public transport system. Sounds different and rather interesting, isn’t it? Here’s more…
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The idea came across to runtheMTR when Canadian Hong Kong expats, Marj and Gillian Pritchard came up with a novel way of exploring Hong Kong city by going quite literally “off the track”. What they did on Mother’s Day, the mother-daughter duo of Marj and Gillian Pritchard swapped traditional gifts for a planned ‘Island Line Run’. The route followed the popular Island Line from Kennedy Town (on the western side of Hong Kong Island) to Chai Wan (on the eastern side) along the scenic harbor front. It turned out to be such a refreshing success that the two pondered if it were…
