Kirirom is a 700 metre high hill in Kampong Speu Province, 2 hours’ drive from Phnom Penh. Geoff was in town, and we wanted to show him a good time, so we headed straight for the hill. Kirirom is synonymous with mountain bikers for its wicked forest single track. It’s also the venue for annual [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cambodia’
Mountain Biking in Cool Kirirom
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Kampong Speu, Kirirom, Kirirom National Park, Mountain biking, Phnom Penh Wheelers on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Lucky to be alive after Road Biking to Sihanoukville
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Bokor Mountain, Cambodia, Coast, Kampot, Lexus, road accident, Road biking, Sihanoukville on January 10, 2012 | 4 Comments »
5 road accidents. That’s the number of incidents I saw during a mere 240 kilometres’ cycle over New Year’s. None of them were drink related. All of them were in broad daylight. Road accident #1: I set out from my home in Phnom Penh at 7am to start ride my bike to Sihanoukville via Kampot. [...]
What I see when running in Phnom Penh
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Cambodia Vietnamese Friendship Park, Independence Monument, Phnom Penh, Royal Palace, Running Route, Waterfront on January 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Not many people realise how beautiful Cambodia’s capital city is. In fact, my weekday running route is pretty incredible when it comes to impressive buildings. Within one kilometre of my front door, there’s the imposing Independence Monument. Built in 1958, it commemorates Cambodia’s independence from France in 1953. Right beside it, there’s a long park [...]
Biking in and around Cambodia
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Kep, Mountain biking, Phnom Basset, Road biking, Silk Island, Touring on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Despite this blog being called “Running over Mountains and Around the World”, I’ve been a bit lax lately in fulfilling its mandate. I’ve been doing hardly any running. And I’ve been up very few mountains recently. Instead, I’ve been spending my time doing loads of biking in different forms. In October I cycled down to [...]
Flooded Cambodia
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Disaster, Emergency, Floods on October 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Thailand’s floods have dominated the international headlines in recent days. Cambodia, its next door neighbour, has not fared any better in the current rainy season. The country is now experiencing the worst floods in a decade. 247 people have died over the last 2 months. Over 100,000 people are still displaced. 16% of the country’s [...]
Rice Planting Season in Cambodia and the beginning of the Hunger Gap
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Rice banks, Rice planting Season, Siem Reap, System of RIce Intensification on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m always humbled when I visit rural areas in Cambodia and see how people live. This week I visited Siem Reap Province in north west Cambodia. It’s rainy season at the moment, and everyone is busy out planting rice. Everywhere I went, there were seed beds, seedlings for transplanting, and paddy fields already filled. Depending [...]
Cruising Cambodia’s Countryside
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, poverty, Pursat Province, Running, rural Cambodia on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s nothing like getting out of the capital and doing a bit of rural running. I spent last week in the province, in Pursat to be precise. Its provincial capital is a three hour drive out of Phnom Penh, heading northwest towards the Thai border. Pursat is a peaceful, functional market town, as well as [...]
Declan – Making the world a small place
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Declan O'Toole MHM, Kotido, Mountain biking, Uganda on July 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
What has Uganda, Vietnam, East Germany, Cambodia, and Ireland have in common? It was a Sunday morning like any other. I had arranged to go out for bike ride out with Andreas, a guy living and working here in Cambodia. We had met a month before hand, when he joined us on our epic three [...]
Kep keeps mountain bikers on their toes
Posted in Races, Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Cambodia Mountain Bike Series 2011, Kep, Kep National Park, Mountain biking, Round 2 on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Round 2 of the Cambodia Mountain Biking Series brought us to the coastal town of Kep. What with the course being a 3 hour drive from Phnom Penh, it provided the ideal chance for a fun weekend away by the sea. I knew the course would be fast and furious. There are precious few technical [...]
Multi-day Mountain Biking in the Cardamom Mountains
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Adventure, Cambodia, Cardamom Mountains, Forest camping, Koh Kong, Mountain biking, Multi-day on May 17, 2011 | 86 Comments »
When Dirk suggested a 4 day mountain biking trip to Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, I couldn’t say no. Being in a constant state of mountain deprivation in flat Cambodia, it was finally a chance to go do some proper hills. In the end, five of us agreed to join: Belgian man Dirk, Geoff from UK, Andreas [...]
Random Running Thoughts…
- Ruined Pavements and High-tech Gyms in Yangon, Myanmar http://t.co/DdTPPeac 4 days ago
- Jogging around Burma’s ancient kingdom of Bagan - the best way to sightsee its 4,000 ancient temples http://t.co/Cnqs3sj3 1 week ago
- The runner whose shorts were 'too revealing' - http://t.co/zS5fQR2f 1 week ago
- Cambodia's Sihanoukville Bike Race & Ride on Saturday 10th March: http://t.co/Rfz0mSOA 1 week ago
- Mobile phones dead expensive in Burma... phone attendants on the street THE way to make a call. http://t.co/Z2Z6rZ9u 1 week ago
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