OCR... more than running

I’m so unbelievably happy! We are back! OCR is back! We had to travel in to a neighbor country, and we had some (self-made) trouble before. But at the entrance of the event location all trouble and bad mood was gone! After a very long period of abstinence we all were so lucky. It was one of the best days (if not the best day) in the last one and a half years. You can’t imagine how we were missing running and the OCR! The mud, the humans, the feeling!                   Now we are hoping that this will never stop again. Against all mutants and variants. Let’s hope together!

One year after the “I hope it’s the last virtual run” - run we are yet in the pandemic and the midsummer run celebrated a sad anniversary. Let’s hope once again, that this will be the last virtual run, and, that corona will end soon!      

Slowly, very slowly, we can go back to normal Events. We all hope it will be fast and we are happy that the first OCRs has been announced for september. Last sunday my running team met in Bochum for a little, spezial and crazy challange: We had to dring a beer und after that run 1000m. This was repeated five times and the time was stopped. Crazy shit! I was about to throw up. Running and beer isn’t a good combination! And one more time i recognized why I don’t dring beer! But it was really fun to see my boys!              

I’m sick of Corona and this weather! I - we all want to get our lives back! In the meantime, even a run does not help to get some relax!

 I need a good OCR and I wish this pandemic ended better today than tomorrow.

 

         

Let’s start a new year!

Everybody can run. But if you want to do it for a long time you need to motivate yourself every day again! The most time running I’m doing it on a street or on fields with my running club. It’s not so bad because it’s a cool group of crazy people, and we try to run more beyond the streets. But it’s often the same and nothing special. So there is another group of runners which we call “Matschverrücktengruppe” (mud crazy group). These are the people with whom I run the OCRs. And we try to do more than OCR. This time it was a night run. It wasn’t a big event. Maybe 200 starter. And many of them didn’t really run. Many kids with parents more walked the track. But it’s okay! The Track was a round of 3 km with a time limit of 60 minutes. We were allowed to run as many times as you could. Most runners did only one round. (I told you there were lots kids!) I tried to run 4 round. It’s possible to do 12 km in 60 minutes. But you need to run….. Especially because it is dark, you r...

Once again a new run - once again a new format. The Gladiator Run is a run in Vossem, Belgium near Brussels. We didn’t know it before, didn’t know if it was a single run or series of events. At the trip we were a bit nervous because we didn’t know if it will be a good event. How strong are the obstacles? It takes a lot of experience to organize such an event well. There are many more aspects than only the obstacles and some running events fail already with the rudimentary details like toilets or check in. But we were satisfied and more than that! It becomes a very great event! Well-prepared and organized, well done running course and great obstacles! It was November and it was cold outside. But for there was a heated tent - wonderful! Not at least for waiting before the race. It was more important to get warm again after the race and not cooling down in the wet clothes. Well done! As so often I was laughed at the start by my colleagues! But after 5 minutes (as so regul...

  Some weekends are more exhausting than others. So was this weekend: On Saturday we ran the Xletix in Wuppertal and on Sunday we were at the Stolrun-OCR. It’s a small local run but not less funny! Unfortunately, I have to say that you have to pay more and more for your photos. Last year the pictures could be downloaded for free. But this year they have to be paid and with 5€ per picture they are not cheap. I’m thinking they might be included in the start price but for commercial reason they are not :-(  But let’s not spoil the mood: I’m there to run and for fun not for the pictures. It was a very funny run and, different than expected, my  legs carried me as if I had not run yesterday.