Hu Jie, the founder of street running: Look at his street life.

Running is a painful punishment? By chance, Hu Jie got up in the street. He was surprised to find that exercise didn't have to be on the playground, and he could turn on his own happiness switch. Hujie used to be an office worker who worked hard overtime. Because of excessive pressure and explosive food intake, she gained more than 80 kilograms. At that time, a colleague with exercise habit thought Hu Jie was too ugly, so he took him to run in Da 'an Forest Park. However, after they arrived at the park, their colleagues immediately ran away, leaving Hu Jie alone, and he just wanted to give up after running for 15 seconds, reconfirming that running was really what he thought, just like being sent to the playground without homework in primary school, which was a painful punishment. Although this action ended in failure, it touched some thoughts of Hu Jie. He thought it would be better if someone told him jokes and ran with him. He looked at the road names around Da 'an Forest Park and couldn't help thinking, do people who live here have anything to do with the road names? After that, he took the action of posting advertisements in Taiwan Province Provincial Normal University to attract work-study students who were willing to tell jokes to accompany him to run, but no one replied to him, and running was put on hold again. However, since he bought running shoes, Hu Jie decided to wear them every day, thinking that if he could run for three minutes one day, he would be successful.

Hu Jie, the founder of the street running club, was driven by curiosity, and running became interesting. One day, the opportunity came. Because Hu Jie goes to Ximending every day to wait for his wife Xiao Tangbao to get off work, but his wife often says that the difference between the off-duty time and the actual off-duty time is half an hour to an hour, so he can only stand downstairs and wait, and occasionally go up to urge him. On this day, he noticed that a model shop in the alley was going to close down, put everything on the roadside auction, and found it interesting, so he ran to have a look. Then, he found that there was another shop not far away. He was curious and ran to that shop again. In this way, he found himself running for 30 seconds and wanted to continue running. Finally, he always runs for five minutes. He said, because I don't know what I will see next, I am attracted by curiosity to run forward, which makes people happy. From this day on, Bao began to run in the alley near Ximending, and the running time was slowly extended from 5 minutes to 30 minutes. He said that his previous life was limited by magazine reports, and he always played and lived according to the above introduction. Since he started running in the street, he found the world very interesting, with many pictures he had never seen in his life. It feels like running in a dream. He is so happy.

Running is a strong tour of life. Later, when Hu Jie encountered a bottleneck in his work, he quit his job. Every day, he takes easycard and gets off at a MRT station. Then he started running around at will. If he gets lost, he will take a taxi back to the MRT station. He said that it was also a magnificent journey of life, and he always felt like an adventure hero, Indiana Jones. After running for half a year, Hu Jie began to share on FB, and decided to take his friends around Taipei to make them feel happy together. Although the friends responded enthusiastically, they always made an appointment, and then something suddenly happened that day, which gradually made him realize that everyone was still afraid of running.

Soon after the Happy Run was found out, the first adult finally appeared. Brother Xu, a former colleague in his forties, suddenly had the idea of participating in triathlon, but he never took action. Hu Jie offered to take him for a run first. In order to ensure the trip, he and brother Xu made an appointment at Rongxing Garden near his home. From there, he went to Dunhua North Road, an art museum without walls, saw the art installations along the way, and then turned to Xiao Zhong East Road to enjoy the architectural scenery. Finally, I went home to Jianguo North Road, the whole journey was 7 kilometers. Hu Jie said that he thought that after this trip, Brother Xu would give up and never see him again. I didn't expect Brother Xu to find it amusing, so I frequently asked him where to go next time. So he designed a route for Brother Xu to run the North American Pavilion and then to Shilin Night Market, and looked at Taipei from different angles. Later, Brother Xu also made an appointment with other friends. In order to ensure that everyone will attend, Hu Jie specially designed a route to meet people while running. If people don't come down, go upstairs and find someone in the office. As a result, every participant felt that the road race was really interesting, and the excitement and happiness overwhelmed the fear of running and the pain during running. At first, Hu Jie's wife Xiao Tangbao didn't believe that Lu Run would be happy. Although she didn't object, she didn't join. Later, Hu Jie designed the adventure route of Ximending, especially when he left the company with a small soup bag. Xiao Tangbao saw that the members were very happy, and felt that this was a very positive thing, and he joined the ranks with pleasure.

And his wife Bao ran to the streets to show their world-famous creativity. In this way, the "street running" club was established, and Hu Jie designed routes with different themes every week, taking members to run in the streets of Taipei. Among these themes, there are Hu Jie's thoughts on life, such as fame in sight, which is the first place in Taipei with the greatest probability, and being blessed by heaven, which passes through the north gate of Feng Shui treasure house. All the inspiration comes from the interesting scenery he found in the street and the exclusive route connected by in-depth study of local stories. In every road running activity, Hu Jie will take photos of everyone smiling and put them on the street running fan page, which makes the Nike company in Shanghai very curious: "Why is everyone smiling? Instead of sweating and focusing on pain? " I even came to Taiwan Province to run with Tuanlu. Therefore, Hu Jie was selected as one of the five representative running stories of Nike in China.

Exploring the unknown curiosity through running is the driving force of running. Hu Jie said that if curiosity leads you forward, you will be very happy; If distance takes you forward, it is hard for you to smile. He said that when he used to go to work, he always kept repeating the circle route from home to the company and back home, just like a golden mouse. Now, every day is full of possibilities. In the past, he planned everything first, but now he thinks planning is a restriction. Exploring the unknown is magical, and all kinds of new things will make people want to stop and continue to explore.

Hu Jie/Introduction

Founder of Street Run and author of Play Run.

Author/Hong Photography/Deng