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.

Two at the same time !

“Women ?” …. no, no, no, I’m talking about two marathons in one weekend 😉 This past weekend I had the pleasure and hard work of doing two of them… marathons. First, the very tough but also very eventful “Aabenraa Bjergmarathon” in which I even ran in my Spidey-costume. You find the report here.

Then, Sunday we – yes, we were actually quite a bunch doing this “double” – did Laesoe marathon, i.e. the marathon on the island Laesoe. Here the route was very flat and easy… but my legs were too sour from the day before so I could not take advantage of it and finished secondlast in a totally crap time. See the story here.

But who cares about time… when you can do two 😉 

This past Saturday I had the extreme (hot) pleasure of running Stockholm marathon… what a great race and gee, my, gosh…. such great weather…. such nice crowds… and many sweet things to look at as well 😉

Stockholm is just a breathtaking city which Im sure you will agree to after looking at my pictures from the race here !

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.