Metro-Marathon, Düsseldorf 2017
Sometimes you get the pleasure to get a free start or you get a sponsoring. But sometimes you have to pay for this free starts. So it happened in April 2017: A phone call: “I need your help. On Saturday we start at the relay at the Düsseldorf-Marathon. We are four, but one got ill. So, please help us.” It was not the most meaningful thing. For only 10km the whole Saturday would be gone. I had to come to Düsseldorf, wait 2 hours before and after my run and got back to my hometown. And that all for only 45 minutes of sport. But, if I wouldn’t agree, the relay would collapse. And that’s not fair. The three other trained a long time for their event. So I agreed. Saturday morning I was picked up. Besides the driver and me, another runner still got in car. Then we drove to Düsseldorf. I was wondering because we were only three people and I knew that the driver would run the full marathon. So I asked, but I shouldn’t have. Because the answer was, that two other got ill too. Okay