OCR... more than running

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...

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...