在西方國家，聖誕和新年假期是跑手的潛伏路障，但在香港，這兩大節日對跑手的影響就遠不及西方國家。在傳統聖誕日，西方人平均每人攝取6,000至7,000卡路里，他們需要跑至少100公里，才能回復假期前的狀態

While the Christmas and New Year holiday looms as a potential high hurdle /bump in the road to many western athletes, it is potentially a far more manageable risk to Hong Kong runners. The average westerner consumes somewhere between 6,000 and 7,000 calories celebrating a traditional Christmas Day and would need to run at least 100km to redress the imbalance.