Saturday August 20th 2016 I had the pleasure to add Reykjavik Marathon as completed in my list of marathons, no. 305 and country no. 24. I had brought my youngest son to Iceland and we had a short but really great trip. We saw a lot of cool things and made some new friends too ! Find below a few turist impressions followed by the race report itself.
Reykjavik, Puffins, Whales and the Blue Lagoon
For a chessplayer Reykjavik is forever linked to the name Bobby Fischer and the (cold war) World Chess Championschip held there in 1972. For a modern turist the city is the starting point of many adventures including Puffin trips, Whale watching and the famous Blue Lagoon. We had the incredible fortune to watch a humpback whale jump totally clear of the water surface, an experience just beyond belief and expectation.
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Reykjavik Marathon 2016
The race day was blessed with beautiful sunshine and nice warm weather and hence the pictures turned out just great !
Reykajvik Marathon is not a very big marathon race, but the event is quite big since it also offers distances from 10 K and up, including a half marathon. Start and finish is downtown Reykjavik and logistics is, hence, fairly easy. It was a very blissful run and especially the parts along the sea were soothing. The route did offer some hills but all in all a not too demanding route for sure. If you collect marathons you’ll have to go, of course, and there is plenty of other stuff to do once in Iceland.
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