On December 28, the TCL·2025 Huizhou Marathon brought together 13,000 runners from across the country. Starting from Huizhou Stadium, participants followed a route linking the city’s most emblematic landmarks, showcasing Huizhou’s harmonious blend of natural landscapes and historical legacy.

The event featured 5,000 marathon runners and 8,000 half marathon runners, with an upgraded awards system that expanded the Open Category rankings’ to the top 30 and introduced a special event record-breaking award. Certified as a China Athletics Association Class A-Event, results are officially recognized nationally and internationally.

Huizhou, a National Historical and Cultural City with over 5,000 years of civilization, has long been shaped by more than 480 philosophers and literary figures have set foot in Huizhou, leaving behind precious cultural heritage.

Among them, the most notable is Su Dongpo, literary giant in the Northern Song Dynasty. Drawing inspiration from Dongpo’s spirit, the marathon embraced the theme “Run Through the Mountains and Seas of Huizhou, Embrace the Culture of Su Dongpo,” The Qing Dynasty Jiang Fengchen expressed in his poet, "Ever since Master Dongpo was exiled to the South Sea, none under heaven dared to look down upon Huizhou," grealty interprets the glory Dongpo brought to this city.

This year's event continues to use the thematic slogan “Run freely through the mountains and seas of Huizhou, fully enjoy the culture of Su Dongpo”, with another slogan of “Huizhou isn't in the heavens, you can reach it by going forward. The theme integrates the landscapes and cultural sentiments from Dongpo's writings into the event experience, allowing runners to feel the contentment of ", I would not mind being a Lingnan " and "with a bamboo cane and sandals of straw, lighter by far than a horse.” while competing and enjoying the surrounding at one time.

From visual identity to spiritual core, the 2025 Huizhou Marathon continues to deeply integrate Dongpo culture, opening this running event with their initiative of “Run Through the Mountains and Seas of Huizhou, Embrace the Culture of Su Dongpo,” Zhong Liang, Director of the Huizhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism, and Sports, introduced that this year's marathon theme is “Huizhou isn't in the heavens, you can reach it by going forward ". The marathon spirit is displayed from the second line of the slogan " you can reach it by going forward ", regardless of how far the finish line is, just keep running forward. "We sincerely invite every runner to respond to this call across a millennium time river with their footsteps."

It was revealed that this year's Huizhou Marathon participant attire is also full of Dongpo elements. The attire uses "Purple Air from the East" as its color theme, printed with an image of Su Dongpo running and his representative words "呵呵" (hehe).  Zhong Liang stated that Su Dongpo was a master of 'hehe, using it frequently in many of his letters and notes. Why is life not happy? Only because one hasn't read Su Dongpo. He hopes participants can embrace a free-spirited mindset like Dongpo's, bidding farewell to the past while conforming to the beautiful wish of "As long as you set off, you will surely arrive."

This year's finisher medal continues the tri-fold design, enhanced with a lucky blind box concept. It blends the charm of Su Dongpo, the color of lychee red, and Lingnan-style windows, echoing the famous line "If I could eat 300 lychees every day, I would not mind being a Lingnan person." Simultaneously, under the theme "Mountains and Seas as Omens, New Year Wishes Fulfilled," it innovatively adopts a blind box format containing three detachable refrigerator magnets. These feature the Echeng Bridge symbolizing "Great Plans Unfolding," Huizhou West Lake symbolizing "Continuous Good Fortune," and Mount Luofu symbolizing "Hopeful Spring Mountains," wishing runners success in their endeavors as they traverse mountains and seas.

An important change in this year's course design is that both the marathon and half marathon finish lines are set inside the Huizhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium. This makes it currently the only marathon event in the province with its finish line inside a professional stadium. This idea not only connects Huizhou's natural scenic like mountains and seas but also leads runners through cultural heritage, passing city landmarks like the Echeng Bridge, West Lake, Hejiang Tower, Shuidong Street, and the Dongpo Ancestral Temple before ending in the Olympic Stadium where represents the prestigious respect to sports in the city.

Zhong Liang introduced that this year's course design aims to convey to runners Huizhou's urban character of "city ‘s poetry vivid crossing over with tradition and modernity ": Running along the West Lake, participants feel the warmth of "Where the heart finds peace, that is home"; traversing Shuidong Street and Hejiang Tower, to gain the touches of profound heritage rooted by millennia-old cultural veins; passing the Echeng Bridge and new urban districts to see the energetic vitality of Huizhou's development. This course is the flows of Huizhou's urban character.

东坡跨越千年的邀约，1.3万名跑友共赴山海惠州｜惠州马拉松

一场马拉松，温暖一座城。12月28日，TCL·2025惠州马拉松将鸣枪开跑，1.3万名跑友将从惠州体育馆出发，途经鹅城大桥、西湖、合江楼、水东街、东坡祠等一系列承载着城市记忆的地标，他们将用脚步领略惠州“半城山色半城湖”的生态之美，穿越承载千年历史的文脉记忆。

据介绍，赛事总规模为1.3万人，其中马拉松项目5000人，半程马拉松项目8000人。赛事设置马拉松项目名次奖、半程马拉松项目名次奖、惠州市民奖，赛事奖励全面升级，公开组奖励名次扩大至前30名，并特别增设“破赛会纪录奖”。赛事将以中国田协A类赛事标准全力打造，届时运动员取得的成绩，可以计入中国田协以及国际田联的马拉松及相关运动的成绩排名，可申报全国、亚洲以及世界纪录。

惠州是国家历史文化名城，有着5000多年的文明史、2200多年的建置史，历史上先后有480多位思想家、文学家踏足惠州，为惠州留下了弥足珍贵的文化遗产。

其中，最绕不开的就是北宋大文豪苏东坡。清代诗人江逢辰的诗“一自坡公谪南海，天下不敢小惠州”，生动地诠释了东坡给惠州这座城市带来的荣光。

本届赛事继续沿用“畅跑山海惠州，尽享东坡文化”的主题口号，以“惠州不在天上，行即到耳”为口号，将东坡笔下的山水诗意与人文情怀融入赛事体验，让跑者在竞技的同时，沉浸式感受“不辞长作岭南人”的惬意与“竹杖芒鞋轻胜马”的洒脱。

2025年惠马从视觉形象到精神内核，继续深度融入了东坡文化，以“畅跑山海惠州，尽享东坡文化”开启了这场奔跑之约。惠州市文广旅体局局长钟亮介绍，本届马拉松的主题是“惠州不在天上，行即到耳”，马拉松精神，正是“行即到耳”在当代最生动的写照——不问终点多远，只管向前奔跑。“我们诚邀每一位跑者，用脚步回应这份穿越千年的呼唤。”

据透露，此次惠马参赛服也是满满的东坡元素。参赛服以“紫气东来”为色彩主题，印有苏东坡奔跑的形象及其代表性的“呵呵”二字。钟亮表示，苏东坡是“呵呵达人”，在大量书简中运用“呵呵”。人生缘何不快乐，只因未读苏东坡。希望选手能以东坡般洒脱的心态，告别过往，也顺应“只要出发，必能抵达”的美好祝愿。

此次完赛奖牌延续三折叠设计，加持幸运盲盒，融合东坡韵、荔枝红与岭南窗，呼应“日啖荔枝三百颗，不辞长作岭南人”的佳话；同时，以“山海为签 新年如愿”为主题，创新采用盲盒形式，内含三款可拆卸冰箱贴，以鹅城大桥寓意“大展宏图”、惠州西湖寓意“好事莲莲”、罗浮山寓意“春山可望”，愿跑友跑过山海、所愿皆达。

今年赛道设计有一项重要改变，即马拉松与半程马拉松的终点均设在惠州奥林匹克体育场内，这将是目前全省唯一将终点设在专业体育场内的马拉松赛事。这条赛道，不仅串联起惠州的山海盛景，更将带领跑者穿越千年文脉，途经鹅城大桥、西湖、合江楼、水东街、东坡祠等一系列承载着城市记忆的地标。

钟亮介绍，今年赛道的设计，是向跑友传递惠州“诗意与活力共生、传统与现代交融”的城市品格：当你奔跑在西湖畔，感受的是“此心安处是吾乡”的温润包容；穿越水东街、合江楼时，触摸的是千年文脉厚重底蕴；途经鹅城大桥、城市新区时，看到的是惠州蓬勃发展的青春活力——这条赛道，就是惠州城市品格的“流动载体”。

统筹策划｜陈骁鹏

文｜林海生 惠宣

图｜主办方

翻译｜陈惠琳

校审｜倪婷婷