Playground for lunatics.

The "Strongmanrun" is just hard for guys. Logo, otherwise this would be too "soft run" or "Warmduscherrennen hot. The Achilles Achim-reader Robert Phillip and in any event have dared - and survived. Despite the icy water and deep mud.

 

The
Strongmanrun in Weeze: 6000 Mad at the start - and I the middle. For this race, it is not necessary, not quite right in his head. A big help is there anyway. At least at the start, in-schmaltzy hit with strobe and fog from the machine, one suspects, as it has appeared here.

Fisherman's Friend
Strongmanrun in Weeze: 6000 Mad at the start

Of the 5925 runners started according to official figures, reaching the 4624 target, 1301 runners stayed on the track. I make no rules, what you should do and leave, but who at this event logs should be two things in mind:

1. You have a couple of times from one to two meters high jump on hard ground. For some this led to bone fractures.

ACHILLES-NEW BOOK

Finally, it is so far: Germany's runners have the perfect excuse for the tedious pace of training to tails. You must first of Achilles-the new book. Germany's funniest amateur runners has its columns to a new piece of forest and meadow run literature zusammengetackert: "Learn to walk without suffering" is available now in a good assortment of ramps and remains in blogs shop. The question "Can you actually run without having to suffer?" Achim normally answered philosophically: "You can, but it is not fun anymore." The 224 pages in the pocketbook is strong Heyne-Verlag and costs 7,95 Euro.

2. The route is 18 kilometers long, and large parts run through mud and sand. Everyone who plays with the thought that next year mitzulaufen should predict at least a half-marathon brought to an end.

We come to the races. First Mileage: forest, muddy ground, the field of participants ever dams, it is difficult to find his rhythm. After the first obstacle will scan the field. Forest recovery, the music booms through the branches. It goes back to the start-finish. Just two more obstacles, then from the Zuschauerpulk. The applause is doing really good.

Obstacle cobweb: concentration is required. After crawling through tires and climb further. With a crooked rail and into the gravel pit. Five kilometers are managed. Well, it goes through mud and sand. Dammed water in my shoes, your feet freeze. I feel each individual grain of sand. I remember how much I hate running on sand.

It is out of the sand pit and back to forest. When I was at the new ground was used, waiting the next hole excavator. I myself fall into the waves and start to swim - it is freezing cold. Two trains, I believe more is not enough. I decide, rather like all the others along the embankment to wade. I think: "Stark's: yes, of life: no."

ACHILLES 'SHOP

New: Over 2009 calendars
Audiobook: The Walker-hater Manifesto
Classics: The race adviser
Standard work: The Verses

The feet hurt with every step, the thighs, I feel no more. Is everything not up on the mud hill. I'm hardly high. Downside is limited to the rear. About my clothes, I am not worried, because after the next Wasserakt they are clean. This time the water reaches up to the waist. This is sufficient to cleanly and easily undercooled more marked. And once again, and again purely out of the gravel pit. The last obstacle is at: It goes beyond Strohballen Direction Home. The second round begins. This wait for other obstructions. Slowly it is exhausting. Unfortunately, there is no pre-round meals more, and the roads are always muddy and poor. After all, now makes my condition and I felt overhaul many runners. Once out of the gravel pit, up to the airport and down through the target. Phew!

First, what to eat and drink and then get out the wet stuff. Unfortunately I forget a warm jacket einzupacken. Luckily, I parked in the sun, and the car is heated up. Heat! Finally! That was a great run and a great experience. How it looks like next year, I know not yet.

Phillip Left