{"id":93894,"date":"2026-10-18T07:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93894"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:18:59","slug":"its-never-hurt-less-chinese-ultrarunners-knee-pain-fades-on-20000km-silk-road-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93894","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s never hurt less\u2019: Chinese ultrarunner\u2019s knee pain fades on 20,000km Silk Road trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/17\/3d44349c-8b31-42e0-9fc7-fc93302ba432_bf742a85.jpg?itok=lTjLDLvD&amp;v=1792209188\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Ria Xi set off on her 20,000km (12,400-mile) endurance challenge, she had no idea what the impact on her body would be. But she was curious to find out.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The Beijing-born former tech executive who <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">used AI to develop running training plans<\/span> has now developed a daily test to track her biometric data alongside memory, motivation and energy levels as she runs across Eurasia.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The extraordinary journey, which began on May 1, 2026, from Vladivostok, Russia, will see Xi run the ancient Silk Road across 17 countries to reach Lisbon, Portugal, in summer 2027. Should she succeed, she will be the first person to achieve this feat.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Xi has already set a fastest known time (FKT) covering China on foot, from the east coast to the western border with Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3370981\/its-never-hurt-less-chinese-ultrarunners-knee-pain-fades-20000km-silk-road-trek?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ria Xi set off on her 20,000km (12,400-mile) endurance challenge, she had no idea what the impact on her body would be. But she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5300,107,31873,5768,16231,276,1197,6041,3113,31872],"class_list":["post-93894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-20000km","tag-chinese","tag-fades","tag-hurt","tag-knee","tag-pain","tag-road","tag-silk","tag-trek","tag-ultrarunners","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}