OCR... more than running

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.       ...

 

         

Let’s start a new year!

Sometimes you want too much! Sometimes you have to die! This time I died!Every year in December there is the “ATG Winterlauf”, a 18 km long run. The track isn’t very good, it’s pity, but okay. It’s more fun because of my club! We run together! But I forgot my registration of the “ Light the Night Run ”. So I had to start at the winter run the morning after the night run. It was too much! I died at around 15 km. Lump sugar and some cake at the last water station gave me some power to survive the run. It was definitive too much, not enough rest and energy for both runs. I sadly lost around 15 minutes compare to the last 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...