On a perfect day I had the pleasure of running Copenhagen marathon 2008 with the ‘Team Erhard’ celebrating marathon no. 400 for my running mate Erhard Filtenborg ! Congratulations !
The race itself was very well organized by Sparta and GLITNIR Banking and the atmosphere along the route was just great ! The weather was ideal for running and several of my other running mates collected new PRs – well done !
You can see my pictures from the race here (and you can upload your own to Politiken).
My first marathon was in Copenhagen, Denmark almost four years ago, ie. the 16.05.2004.
Thus, my personal marathon year spands from the 16th of May each year. With my races in Sweden this weekend, I have now completed my first four years of marathon running :
Year 1: 4 marathons – including Berlin and London !
Year 2: 12 marathons – including Stockholm, Amsterdam, Dublin, Elbtunnel, Paris and Hamburg.
Year 3: 28 marathons – including, well, too many to mention… New York, Boston, Rome, Barcelona, Vienna and Monschau on top. Not to mention ‘my own’ event GARMIN Rudersdal marathon.
Year 4: 36 marathons – including Chicago, Magdeburg, Paris, Zürich as the biggest events. Notably, I collected the last of the World Majors with the completion of Chicago Marathon, a feat that only two Danes have acomplished to my knowledge (well, and we did it the very same day !).
New this year was also the task of running ‘double marathons’, i.e. two marathons during one weekend… I did three of them… and, of course, the just completed 5-marathons-in-96-hours thingy which included the ‘2 marathons within 24 hours’ trophy.
I am not unhappy 😉
You can find picture and stories from most of these races via ‘My marathons’ from the menu at the page right.
So… the week of Truth has arrived… am I just a spineless worm or am I an enduring, strong and motivated athlete… or just plain nuts ? 😉 Well, case is that this is the week for my challenge of five marathons in 96 hours, starting Wednesday in Skövde, Sweden. The weather forecast looks great, not a bad thing at all !
I am glad to be amongst friends… the brave Danes Mogens Pedersen, Vagn Kirkelund, Peter Bøgevig and Anders Munch Madsen will participate as well… and so will my Swedish master and friend Lennart Skoog… and in toto it seems that around 30 runners are up to the quest of hunting down these five races in one streak.
UPDATE: WE DID IT !!!
Finally, I made a successful attack on my by now two years old PR from Hamburg…. this past weekend in Zürich was thus such a delight featuring a great marathon race and the impressions of the very nice and accommodable city of Zürich.
You can find my full coverage of the race here. Enjoy !
It is amazing what you can experience during just one weekend !
Fly down to Paris, collect the bib number, see parts of the city and do some shopping, eat, sleep and then up and run Paris marathon 2008 Sunday. Run, run, run… then a shower, jump to the Metro, race to Le Louvre… and walk back to the bus to the airport… fly, fly, fly… train.. and back in your own bed Sunday evening. Great !!!
The marathon ? Just awesome !!! See the picures and video here !
