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Many of you ask me how to prepare and plan a marathon tour via 8 countries and with more than 12.000 km. In deed – it´s a challenge but with China Tours, me and the friends from my Core Team we are strong and experienced enough to do it – so we will show you some of factors we have to concern for the planning….

Luckily i can use my skills from mountain routing in Himalaya and Alps and South America for this.

Here are the some of the critical challenges when planning this:

  1. Different climate zones (Snow, Desert, Tropical, …)
  2. Various topographical conditions (High Mountains, Desert, Rivers, Lakes, Caves, Altitude, …)
  3. Political circumstances in different countries (Visa requirements, risk zones, Military areas, …)
  4. Supply by food, water, fuel and other things (hygienic, available, trustable, …)
  5. Cross custom and border (forbidden goods, time, documents, …)
  6. Required permits (government related, how long before to apply, …)
  7. Where find a safe place for the night with the truck (ground, temperature, wind, …)
  8. Unforeseen events (nature impact like strong long snowing or raining, earthquake, broken streets, officials requirements, …)
  9. … and many more (wrong map, street development, no GPS, Military Zones, …)

At least we have to care for more than 80 items to plan such route, and this is only the planning. Additionaly we have to find cooperation partners, sponsors, write articles, train hard, visa medical check ups discuss with different government departments, testing materials and double check all things they related to safety.

With China Tours and Andy we know we can use ways they already „scouted“ and we not have to find many new ways. But still as athlete i have to prepare some cases like:

  1. i lost contact to supply car
  2. supply car have technical problem and is far from me
  3. i have medical problem and supply car is far from me
  4. lost my way and there is no GPS or no energy for the equipment
  5. local police stops me and i´m not able to contact the team
  6. criminals stop or harm us
  7. nature events block your way
  8. and many others….

This is the reason i have to double check every planning step very carefully. Even Andy and all the others will do their best. I have to make the decision if i´m able for each part of this way in all kind of situations.

See some examples:


很多人问我如何计划一个长达12000公里,跨越8个国家的马拉松项目。确实,是一个很大的挑战。但是因为有China Tours的支持,以及我和我朋友组成的强大的,富有经验的核心团队,我们可以完成这个艰巨的任务,今天想向大家介绍一下行程计划中需要考虑的重要因素。

幸好我曾经登过喜马拉雅山以及阿尔卑斯山,还在南美深度旅行过,现在这些体验和经历都可以派上用场了。

下面就是一些我们需要考虑的一些重要挑战因素的例子:

  1. 不同的时差地理位置(雪地,沙漠,热带丛林, …)
  2. 多变的地形条件 (高山, 沙漠, 河流, 湖泊, 山洞, 高纬度, …)
  3. 不同国家的政治形势 (签证要求, 政治形势严峻的地区如 军事地带等, …)
  4. 食物,水,燃料等供给物资 (保持清洁, 是否可获得, 信任, …)
  5. 跨越边界国界 (禁用物资, 时间, 文件, …)
  6. 当地地理位置许可证(与政府相关的, 申请时间长短, …)
  7. 如何在晚上给供给车找到一个安全的休息地 (地面条件, 温度, 风力, …)
  8. 不可预见的情况 (自然天气的变化, 地震, 破损的街道, 官方许可要求等, …)
  9. … 还有更多 (地图的不准确, 路面, 无GPS信号, 军事地带, …)

 仅是计划此次行程路线,我们至少需要考虑80多个条件因素,此外,我们还需要寻找合作伙伴,赞助商,撰写资料文章,艰苦健身训练,办理签证,医疗检查,与不同地方政府的多个部门洽谈协商,同时还要做产品测评,很多工作涉及到安全因素的还需要多次审核。

With  and we know we can use ways they already „scouted“ and we not have to find many new ways. But still as athlete i have to prepare some cases like:与China Tours中国之旅,Andy 安迪一起,很多路线我们前期已经侦查了解过,但是作为跑步者,还是需要提前考虑准备,防范于未然。

  1. 比如和供给车失去联系
  2. 供给车出现技术问题,并在离我很远的距离。
  3. 我的身体出现医疗问题,供给车无法及时赶到
  4. 迷路,失去gps 信号,出现信息技术障碍
  5. 地方政府阻拦 ,我无法获取团队的帮助
  6. 受到歹徒暴徒的袭击
  7. 自然天气灾害无法前行
  8. 还有更多。。。。

这就是为什么,很多涉及人身安全问题的因素,我需要考虑周全。就算是安迪他们尽量把所有可能遇到的问题都提前做好准备,但是在跑步途中,我自身还是需要做很多抉择。