LakeRun, Kalkar 2017
It was cold … We registered a few weeks ago. At that time it was still warm. It was already autumn, but the sun was shining and we felt strong. On 19.11.2017 it was cold! At temperatures just above freezing, we met in Kalkar. We knew it would be hard, wet and dirty. But we did not know how hard, wet and dirty it really would be. At half past nine in the morning we were at the registration for the LakeRun in the “Kernwasser Wunderland Kalkar”: Ramona, Frank, Benjamin, Simon, Thomas and me. According to registration a 6km circuit awaited us with 40 exciting and demanding obstacles on varied terrain. I was the only one who wanted to run 3 laps, thus 18km and therefore had to start 30 minutes earlier. Everyone else wanted to run a respectable 2 laps. Soon it was time: I was at the start line and after a short warm-up program, I saw myself on the track. With harmless bales of straw as the first obstacle, it started quite loose. But at the second obstacle it should be wet and