I have Shanghai based Tina Kanagaratnam to thank for this interesting post.
I’ve only met Tina once, and that, too, briefly, on a “Historic Shanghai” walk led by her and her husband on our last visit to the city, but we had actually been in cyber-touch before that. Tina had kindly helped ID old photos of mine from my first ever visit to Shanghai in the early 1980s. We stayed in Instagram contact (as one does) and then, in the interesting way of things, I spotted a Twitter post from her a couple of days ago.
About running.
Bingo! A renowned historian AND a runner 🙂
So with her kind permission, here is what Tina saw on a recent run in a city that is slowly emerging from a very tough, uber-strict lockdown:
“Great to be back running in the park!
Fun fact: Xujiahui Park was laid out as a microcosm of modern Shanghai, so this bridge is supposed to be the Yan’an Road elevated highway.”
This is the bridge in question, and even though I used to go for regular runs when we visited Shanghai, I didn’t recognise this park.
So I googled it for you.
You’re most welcome.
So there you go 🙂 Looks like a great place to run – green and spacious.
Thanks to Tina, I now have a super new running destination for whenever we next get back to Shanghai…where our son lives, by the way. So it’s most definitely at the top of our list, whenever we are allowed back there…