ATM 500 - Day 12: into the last weekend with 84 teams yet to finish

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The inaugural ATM 500 Run Asia, Run Virtual Team Challenge is approaching its conclusion this coming Sunday night. We enter the final weekend with 147 official finishers, 5 more finishers under review and 84 other teams still on the virtual course heading for the 500k mark. A few teams have DNFd, mainly due to injury of one of their runners. Generally speaking, these are fantastic results that outperform our expectations by far. Congratulations and many thanks to all of you for making this pan-asian community challenge such a success!

It is perhaps very fitting that the end of the virtual ATM 500 coincides with the first ‘real’ race in four months: at 10 pm on Friday, the main 100k race of the Dalat Ultra Trail event in Vietnam started with a big bunch of enthusiastic runners. We all know that Dalat is unique and that we will need to wait another three months for the next ATM Championship event, but both the ATM 500 and Dalat prove that Asia Trail Master and trail running in Asia have a bright future ahead.

The finishing teams on day 12 were:

  • Team Kouprey Cambodia

  • The One Peace

  • SuperFit Global Team 2

  • Running Therapists

  • Team Ana

  • Brutal Enduro

  • Indonesian Spartans 3

  • 005 MTA

  • LoukPongRunner

  • SG Trail Mix

  • Run For Beer

  • Indonesian Spartans 4

  • Ascent Tomatic

Kuddos to all! Two teams managed to stay below 50 hours as a team, running relatively short stints each day but still. Once more a team of Cambodia, Team Kouprey, stands out , but also the One Peace Team. Thumbs up also for the Run For Beer Team including Amy Khor and Robert Butcher, the latter doing an excellent job just coming out of recovery. The beers at the end of the day were well-deserved, indeed!

Last night in Spain, the ‘Los Angeles de Charlie’ also finished their 500k journey. The only full-European team has earned itself a special note and in the coming days we aim to find out more about the runners in the team, and how they got involved with the ATM 500.

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Run For Beer Tea: Robert Butcher prefers Guinness after the team’s successful challenge

Run For Beer Tea: Robert Butcher prefers Guinness after the team’s successful challenge

The Run For Beer Team: Amy goes for Belgian Hoegaarden upon completing the 500k

The Run For Beer Team: Amy goes for Belgian Hoegaarden upon completing the 500k

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