Ho Chi Minh City’s growing community of ‘hardcore’ runners

Running has attracted a large number of young citizens in Vietnam over the years, with a variety of running events hosted in Ho Chi Minh City and other areas and runners finding the sport a way to stay fit and build a sense of community. Founded in 2013, the Sunday Running Club (SRC) is an active community of runners in Ho Chi Minh City. It now has thousands of followers who regularly run at popular parks and tourist destinations around town. Every now and then, SRC hosts a diversity of events for domestic and foreign runners not just in the city, but elsewhere in Vietnam. A burgeoning community Pham Thanh Tuan, 37 years old, is the founder of SRC. During his overseas studies in Singapore back in 2011, he witnessed an entirely different attitude to keeping fit and staying healthy in the young Singaporeans. Despite late night working shifts, office workers in the city-state still make it to the gym and sports centers or go running even at 9:00 pm. Meanwhile, their Vietnamese counterparts are more prone to staying up late and drinking in bars along busy streets after work. Such a 'revelation' prompted Tuan to kickstart a healthy movement… Read full this story

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