I had never run as many kilometres as I did in preparation for the Cheshire Elite Marathon, which took place on the border between England and Wales. Even though I had improved my best marathon time to 2:32:15 just six months ago, I hoped to get as close as possible to that time on the rural course south of Chester. After a fast first half, various...
Running
02.05.2021
One run after the other and therefore one marathon after the other was cancelled this year. The goal of improving my marathon best time of 2:39:16 hours, which I had set for the Loch Ness Marathon in autumn 2019, had been repeatedly shaken by several marathon cancellations. In the end, I managed to do it in the ninth attempt, so that I was able to ...
Running
09.11.2020
Apart from the Berlin Marathon, the London Marathon is the only European marathon to count among the World Marathon Majors. It should have taken place for the 40th time in April 2020. Then Corona came along, the race was postponed to October 2020 and finally the anniversary race turned into perhaps the craziest London Marathon ever.
While ...
Running
05.10.2020
Instead of the Australian East Coast, the Gold Coast Marathon 2020 took place worldwide as a virtual race. It was possible to run from 1 July to 2 August. Together with our team colleagues we took part in this attractive virtual running event for Geflügelhof Zapf. While at the beginning we only planned to start over a distance, Jonas and I wer...
Running
20.08.2020
“Hi Jonas,
Welcome to your (un)usual Saturday morning (not)parkrun (not)results email.“
For weeks, months and years we have been receiving this parkrun email week after week. Instead of receiving the results of our 5-kilometre run with all the facts about the current parkrun, since March we have only received emergency par...
Running
24.06.2020
