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!      

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.

Crazy years call for crazy events: Up to today for me hiking was more or less only slow running. Not anymore! A hike is totally different. But it’s not less fun! Especially not if you hike with friends!                         ...

Sunrise was at 5:17 a.m. on the day of the summer solstice and the run was called “Run into the sun”. So I woke up at 4:30 a.m. and stood at the virtual start line only 45 minutes later.  

BTW: This is a real photo of the day! In the forest near my home, where I run regularly, we have many animals like eg deer.

One more time an event was only a virtual event. I would like to run with and against other people. I can’t tell you who much I hate this pandemic! Based on an obstacle course, the challenge today was to interrupt the run twice and do a series of exercises

Sadly, most of the Events in 2020 were canceled and the few, which are not canceled, are virtual or digital. I don’t like it but take part of some of them…..  

Fuck of, Corona! (Sorry!) This year nearly all events were canceled. The global pandemic made events, whether culture or sport, impossible. I don’t want to talk about corona! But I tried to motivate myself and my running club. So I challenged my club to run against me. All kilometers, which are run at the normal training days Tuesday and Thursday, will be added. These will be reduced by my own kilometers and the result will be paid in beer at the summer party of the club. Fun fact: A local TV-Station got interest to report about this:  

We started a new challenge: Catch the medal! Strong Viking changed its system. Until now your collected points got lost every year. Not anymore! The medal (the first one) is parted into 4 pieces and regardless of your runs you will get one part after one. At the end it will be the viking ax and an honor to have it! But no one could know what the year 2020 will bring to our lives.       ...