With the dust settled, Chinese professional trail running and marathon athlete Yao Miao teams up with ACG to run toward her next peak.
On the evening of April 8 (Beijing time), the ACG elite roster added another heavyweight athlete, the 2018 CCC women's champion and 2024-2025 OCC champion, China's trail queen — Yao Miao.Yao Miao has officially become a core member of All Conditions Racing Department (ACRD)'s all-weather trail racing division, she will kick off the new season with her new team.From first making a name for herself on the domestic trail running scene to breaking through and securing a core position on the world stage, Yao Miao has step by step completed the progression from a gifted young talent to a world-class trail running elite. Her development is far more than the accumulation of results and placings; it is reflected in the comprehensive maturation of her training system, race understanding, and self-management abilities.Meanwhile, ACG is undergoing a reinvention from the inside out. It is no longer merely a single equipment provider; it is continuously reinforcing its mountain DNA and attempting to construct a more complete mountain lifestyle expression—based on a more professional product system while extending into deeper sports content and community connections.On one side is a professional athlete at the peak of her competitive cycle, continuously evolving; on the other is an outdoor trail brand that is steadily rebuilding its professional expression system. When individual capability matures and coincides with a brand's strategic phase, collaboration naturally takes on a clearer direction.For this signing, Yao Miao said: “The charm of trail running lies in finding your own rhythm and running your own path no matter the environment.I chose to join ACG, to become a member of the All Conditions Racing Department — precisely because here they believe the limit is never the finish line. I look forward to running faster, wilder, and freer with ACG, so the world can see that the power of trail running is more than one person's championship; it's the growth of a group, and the future of this sport taking root, growing, and being passed on in China.”For Yao Miao, ACG offers not just equipment support but a whole suite of systematized resources built around high-intensity mountain environments — from products to training to global race platforms, which will help her keep breaking through on more complex, more challenging courses; and for ACG, Yao Miao's joining gives the brand a more convincing, real-world example within China and across the global trail running map.It is foreseeable that on future mountain racefields, this collaboration will be about more than results and wins; it will become a long-term practice of Chinese runners participating in and shaping the global trail running narrative.For Yao Miao, this means a brand-new team and support system, as well as new challenges and a broader stage.For ACG, this world-class trail runner, who combines resilience and explosive power, will become a highly representative presence in its mountain expression.Yao Miao and ACG will together write a new chapter for both,and a new journey has already begun. We look forward to them reaching new heights, exploring more possibilities in trail running, and showing the world a new face of Chinese trail running.Between the racecourse and the mountains, the world is constantly changing, and Yao Miao and ACG happen to come together amid this change. What changes will their meeting bring to the world of trail running? What moments worth recording will occur?We look forward to more exciting moments!
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