OCR... more than running

Straßenläufe sind ja so eine Sache: Man kommt im Training nicht drum herum, aber so wirklich Spaß machen sie keinen. Das wiederum ist natürlich Geschmacks- bzw. Ansichtssache und stark von persönlichen Vorlieben abhängig. Mir aber machen sie kaum Spaß. OCR’s sind aber kein günstiger Spaß. Hier werden schnell mal 80-110€ Startgebühr pro Lauf fällig. Von An- und Abreise- und ggf Übernachtungskosten ganz zu schweigen. Eine günstige Mischung sind Trail-Läufe. Und von diesen gab es am 19.01.2019 wieder einen in meiner Heimatregion. Es war also fast schon eine Pflichtveranstaltung, auf die ich von einem Laufkameraden aufmerksam gemacht wurde. Es galt eine Trail-Strecke von 21km (also ein Halbmarathon)  zu „überwinden“. Überwinden klingt mir zu negativ. Sagen wir lieber mit Freunde und Spaß zu laufen. Mittlerweile habe ich einige Freunde auch eben in der Läuferszene. Im Gespräch mit diesen und allen anderen betone ich immer wieder, dass für mich Freude und Spaß an der Bewegun...

It was a long time discussed in my club and at the end I just did. My club has its own website and there is an internal forum. But that is not state of the art. It’s not real-time communication and takes way too long. Spontaneity is something else and not possible. So I opened a whats-app-group with all phone numbers I knew. It worked! Within two days we were a little group of 10 who want to start at the Rursee-Marathon. This will be a great day - that was sure! Alone, the journey to the event was pure fun. We shared two cars and our mood got better with each kilometer we got closer to the start line. In the end we were almost euphoric. There are different distances to choose. I took (as usual) a distance around a half-marathon. I had to say it was a very natural track. Very nice landscape around the dam with some hard and high surprises. Some elevations were hard but possible to run, and so we all were happy to reach the finish! I sadly had to handle with a drop of bitte...

It’s a nice and in one way special run. Not only that the trail is completely flat (the maximum different altitude per kilometer is 2 meters), it is only in forest. And you can choose or change your distant during the run. All runners start at the same time and there are four distances to choose: One lap is 7km and you can run up to 4 laps. You don’t need to choose it before the race and you don’t need to say anything about your plan how many laps you are going to run. Run as far as you can and if you are at your own end set the turn signal and take the exit way. It’s not at last for this reason a very popular event. No pressure, no force, only fun on running! Sure, many “ Lustläufer ” take part every year, and it’s one of the events with the most club runners of all. Maybe we will see us there next year :-)