CANNONBALL !!!

My friend and marathon race organizer Michael Nielsen thought that we should run a marathon including the details in the subject line. So we did ! It was a beautiful little race wih 21 participants and a quite tough route including a very sneaky hill… we had to run the roundtrip 12 times ! We did !

Next day… my ‘own’ race GARMIN Rudersdal marathon. 46 participants and a great day on the fantastic RudersdalRuten just north of Copenhagen. This marathon is actually one of the absolute tougher ones in Denmark… so doing a double including this one is no joke for sure ! But as often before, Anders and I endured and could thus sign up additionally two races on the scorecard. Boy, what a long ‘long’ weekend…

… 84 km and a lot of experiences richer ! WE WANT MORE 😉

Check the many pictures from my list ‘MY MARATHONS’ as always.

Yesterday, I completed the most beautiful and demanding marathon for me to date: Swiss Alpine 42K.

The sceneries cannot be described in words, the toll on the body cannot be read… it must be felt end endured by yourself ! So you marathoneers out there, be aware !!! You MUST go to Davos, Switerzerland, and participate in the Swiss Alpine marathon sometime in your life ! It is a HUGE experience.

For now, though, you can get some impressions from the race here.  

This past Sunday we had the pleasure of running the “Winter Route” in Kalundborg.

Boy.. oh, boy… that was such a beautiful treat ! Green trees, yellow corn fields, blue sky and white Cumulus clouds just made up fantastic scenaries along the course… a quite hilly and tough course to complete, indeed !

See the picturesque stuff here ! 

Yet another weekend with two marathons, even the two toughest marathons in Denmark !

Firstly, Mjoelner marathon on Saturday, a very challenging and technically difficult race. Add to this temperatures at around 28 degrees and you have a cocktail only to drink for experienced and very stubborn runners. Pictures here.

Then, Sunday… the hardest and toughest marathon in Denmark, Extreme marathon… including 4400 height meters !!! Let’s just say that I came through… but with great difficulties due to blisters and damage on the left Achilles, unfortunately somthing that still troubles me here four days after. See the extreme pics here.

Yeah… you read correctly… I did two of them this past Saturday. Still marathons, not bimbos 🙂

First, start in Hamburg 08.00 hours in pouring rain in the little but very cosy race “Ôjendorfer See Marathon” (www.100mc.de). As my right knee was hurting from the Double the weekend before, the soily route was perfect and gentle food for my legs and constitution… and I finished very controlled just sub-5 hours. See the pictures here.

Then Anders and I drove 2 1/2 hours in car to the coastal City Bremerhaven… and were ready for the next race, Bremerhaven City Marathon, at the start 18.30 hours. The first 10 k went fine, then followed by 20 very hard kilometers for me ! On the last of the four rounds I was the last person… and was thus followed by a couple of Police motorcycles… that kinda gave me some Energy !  😉 But then at the very last kilometer… I actually passed another runner… to my amazement … and finished in just sub 5.30 hours, two minutes to midnight ! Alas, two marathons were completed this historic day, June 28 2008 !

See the pictures here … or in this gallery.