Xi'an City Marathon

A couple weeks ago, Xi'an held a marathon on the city wall. Xi'an is the only city with the entire city wall still standing, and every year they have a 5k, 10k, one lap (13.7 km), and a half-marathon race on the top.

You can see the wall is actually pretty wide. On non-marathon days, you can go up and rent bikes and ride around the entire thing, or just walk around up there and see the city.

I got stuck behind these noise-makers for a little while!

This man, apparently 90 years old, ran the half-marathon!

Security, enjoying a morning smoke

The people who signed up got T-shirts - I'm not sure if this girl signed up just for the t-shirt or is wearing somebody else's.

Another cute little guy cheering somebody on! Notice the long underwear behind him - that seemed to be the running outfit of choice :)