This week’s run has a theme that perhaps only Karate and Pickles can relate to. From the days when the USSR was China’s Big Brother and it was all the rage in Beijing to sing Russian songs like Moscow Nights and Katyusha, learn the Russian accordion and play chess, we bring you: The Sino-Soviet Friendship Run! Brotherly Love Built in 1954 [...]
A Nation Terrorized On April 21, 1934, the Daily Mail newspaper struck terror into the hearts of the British people when it published an awe-inspiring photograph of the Loch Ness Monster; a dinosaur-like beast that was rumored to have been lurking at the bottom a lake in Scotland called Loch Ness. The stunningly realistic photograph sparked widespread hysteria and a [...]
On this year’s eve of Christmas Eve, we run in honor of pioneering railway engineer, and hero of Chinese modernization, Zhan Tianyou. “我国地大物博，而于一路之工，必须借重外人，引以为耻。” - 詹天佑 “Our country has vast territory and abundant resources, but we have to rely on foreigners to build a railway. That is shameful.” - Zhan Tianyou Father of Chinese Railways Between 1905 and 1909, Zhan built the first [...]
What do you enjoy about a BH3 run? Is it being tipsy during the day; taking pleasure in a meandering Odyssey during which you encounter strange things you don’t quite know the meaning of? Is it the chance to cut out from the noise and find yourself in a peaceful place where you can makes sense of things? Or is [...]
Beijing's Biggest Erections Run a.k.a. Skyscraper Run. Size matters. Mine is bigger than yours. etc. etc. In England we have a saying: Big car, small willy. I’m told there’s no equivalent in Chinese, but the same goes for big buildings, right? As we know (as we know), Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD) has 13 of the capital’s 14 tallest skyscrapers. This [...]