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The New Taipei City Wan Jin Shi Marathon is a course of 42.2 km with 50.4 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 4 m and its highest 17 m above sea level. Next race: Sunday 21 March 2027.
The marathon runs out along Provincial Highway 2 from Wanli through Jinshan to a turn at about the highway's 27.5 km marker, and returns by the same road to the start.
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km 19.9mile 12.3
The course on Highway 2 passes Shimen Cave, the sea arch beside the road, a little over a kilometre before the turn.
Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0
Height drawn many times taller than life · GEDTM30
Dashed: bridge upright dashes: cut-offs
Your 5 gels, at the orange marksFor a 4:00 finish, one every 40 minutes
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The organiser describes the marathon as a list of roads: 起點→台2線48.6km→萬里隧道→大鵬派出所→【左轉】環金路→清水路（台2線）→淡金公路（台2線）→折返點（台2線約27.5 km）, and then back through the Wanli Tunnel to the start. In English: from the 48.6 km marker of Highway 2 in Wanli, through the tunnel to the Dapeng police station, left onto Huanjin Road, along Qingshui Road and the Tamkin Highway to the turn.
The two markers are 21.1 km apart, which is half the marathon, so the turn is the half-way point and the road home is the road out.
Sourced
The start sits at about 12 m, the road is at 14.7 m at its highest, at km 4.0 just before the Dapeng police station, and then it drops to the coast. From km 5 to km 36 it stays between 4 m and 10 m above the sea, with the lowest open road at 3.9 m near km 12.3. The same rise comes back on the return at about km 38.
In all the race climbs about 50 m: 22 m before the turn and 29 m after it. A watch that adds up every short rise will read a little more.
Measured
The organiser’s list of roads goes from the start through the Wanli Tunnel on the way out and through it again on the way home. The outbound tunnel runs from km 0.4 to km 1.6 (1.15 km) and the return tunnel from km 40.6 to km 41.6 (1.0 km), each direction in its own tube.
Runners are inside it before their first kilometre is done, and the last 600 m of the race start at its exit.
Measured
A runner who misses a gate loses the race and is taken back to the start area by the organiser’s bus. The gate at 5.5 km sits at Jiatou, beyond the tunnel, and is generous: 1 h 10 min, where an even 6-hour pace reaches it in 47 minutes. The turn comes at 3 h 05 min, five minutes behind an even 6-hour pace, and every gate after it sits within five minutes of that pace. From 25 km to 30 km and from 30 km to 35 km the organiser allows 41 minutes for each 5 km.
The organiser’s own finishing time is 5 h 45 min, with a 15 minute buffer up to the 6 h limit.
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12:0012:00 PM–20:008:00 PM
12:0012:00 PM–20:008:00 PM
10:0010:00 AM–18:006:00 PM
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03:003:00 AM–05:005:00 AM
04:304:30 AM–12:3012:30 PM
05:305:30 AM–12:3012:30 PM
12:0012:00 PM
07:107:10 AM
09:059:05 AM
09:389:38 AM
10:1910:19 AM
11:0011:00 AM
11:1711:17 AM
Times as published by the organiser, in New Taipei City time, checked . Confirm on their site before you travel.
The forecast for Sunday
We hold no start time for this race, so the record is read at 09:009:00 AM, local time.
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Ballot open for the 2027 race
Going by the dates read 11 October 2026. Next: ballot closes, 2027 race, .
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Race fuel
One every 40 minutes, the orange marks on the profile. New Taipei City stays within 13 m43 ft of height, so they go by the clock:
Under about 75 minutes most runners need no gel: water at the aid stations does it.
For your long training runs:
Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side. Enough for race day and two test long runs.
Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.
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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.
Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.
Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.
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Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.
Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.
Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.
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One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.
One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.
Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.
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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.
Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.
Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.
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