Posted on 04/05/2019 9:18:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ten days after disappearing in the middle of a trail race on March 23, a Malaysian runner is still nowhere to be found.
Encik Amri, the technical director of Gopeng Ultra Trail (GUT), confirmed to Runner’s World that Mohammad Ashraf bin Hasan was missing, and that a search and rescue mission of various local groups continues to scour the area of his last known whereabouts. Local authorities, who are directing the search, asked him not to give a full interview before their investigation was complete, he said.
Ashraf was one of several hundred competing in the 25K distance (others attempted 10, 50, and 100K) of this year’s race, a three-year-old ultra in the forests outside of Gopeng, a city of roughly 2.5 million in the Malaysian state of Perak.
He was last seen at the race’s sixth checkpoint roughly two hours after the 7:30 a.m. local time start, a GUT Facebook post said. A friend alerted organizers when Ashraf failed to make the 2 p.m. cutoff time and didn’t respond to messages, according to Malaysian newspaper the Malay Mail. After searching unsuccessfully all day, the friend filed a missing persons report that night, and the official rescue mission launched the next morning.
The course, based on satellite maps of the area and video footage from last year’s race, is a mix of trails and dirt roads through tropical jungle and lightly forested rural areas. According to AccuWeather, the temperature in Gopeng ranged from 75 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit on the day of the race.
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See 20.
Miles or km. ????
km, a 25K race is approx 15 miles. An Ultra is typically any length of race over a full marathon, usually 50k, 50 mile, 100k or 100 miles.
25K is about a half marathon, isn’t it? Or closer to 2/3?
yes, 25K is a little over 15 miles.
Stepped on a python.
Should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque ?
No gps watch ?
“Python”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Thank. You would think I would know that stuff since I live in the Endurance Capital of the World.
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