His time of 2 hours and 40 minutes may seem a bit slow to us now, but Tu "trained with flour bags on his back and came to the meet with a sweet potato in hand."
杜報律當年的成績為二小時四十分左右，以現在眼光看來，實在不怎麼入流，難得的是，他的成績是在「背著麵粉跑山路、帶著地瓜上省運」的情況下練出來的。