LAP DOG CHALLENGE 2019

For the fourth year in succession the absolutely ridiculous idea of sane people running laps of an athletic track continuously for five hours took place on Saturday 2 November 2019 Hong Kong.

Following the great success of Lap Dog Challenge in previous years, which raised over HK$1m per year for the Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Benevolent Fund, the event was run again in the early hours of a Saturday morning at Stanley Ho Sports Institute, Pok Fu Lam.

This year we had eight teams fielding a total of 40 runners. They came from BKAsiaPacific, Dragages, Gammon, Hip Hing, ISG/Commtech, Leighton, Lighthouse Club and WT Partnership.

At 7am the hooter was blown and all runners took off laughing and chatting. Some five hours later there wasn’t much laughter happening. Most were still running, some were staggering, when the hooter blew to call a close to proceedings. And, as in 2018, the boys from Hip Hing were all still going strong.

Team with most laps – Hip Hing

Best individual female – Christy Leung, Gammon

When the final numbers were tallied a total of 3,422 laps had been completed. That’s 1,368 kilometres !

Total laps by team are shown below. Hip Hing took the trophy for most laps by a team with an incredible 535 laps (214km). Best individual male was Wong Kin Cheung of Hip Hing who completed 127 laps (50km) and best individual female was Christy Leung of Gammon who completed 88 laps (35km).

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Team Hip Hing Gammon Leighton ISG/Commtech Lighthouse Club BKAsiaPacific WTP Dragages Total

Laps 535 519 484 442 378 364 353 347 3,422

KM 214 208 194 177 151 146 141 139 1,369

No doubt we will be back in 2020 with more teams than ever.

Best individual male – Wong Kin Cheung, Hip Hing

Hip Hing

WT Partnership

ISG/Commtech Gammon

Lighthouse Club

Leighton

BKAsiaPacific

Dragages

The response to the call for sponsorship from Named Sponsors, companies and individuals was again incredible and the event finally raised HK$1,584,414 with all proceeds going to the Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Benevolent Fund.

In the four years the lap Dog Challenge has been run, it has raised in excess of HK$5m for the Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Benevolent Fund.