Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon should be easier next year

Registration opens today for the Standard Chartered Marathon, Hong Kong's most popular running event.

The races will take place on February 5, 2012 and runners can enter on payment of a HK$300 registration fee.

This year, a record sign-up of 70,000 participants is expected -- probably because the race is said to be slightly easier.

Previous routes took runners up and down slopes along the scenic but gruelling Stonecutters, Tsing Ma and Ting Kau bridges.

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