Unbridled slapstick for all.

Reiner Calmund heavyweight has a half-marathon course - in the tempo of a walker. The obese Kevin plays soccer - as a keeper motionless on the goal line. Is the sport, asks Achim Achilles. Hardly, he says, was more of the pastime and also provocative.

 

The message sounds first sensationell: Reiner Calmund Marathon is gone,
in the Ruhr. Wow, thinks the hobby runner. On closer inspection, however disenchanted the performance a little. First overcame the 60-year-old crowd only a half marathon. And secondly, Calli gewalkt, three hours and 56 minutes, although without sticks, but with an average speed of over five kilometers per hour.

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Calmund Walker (center), extreme athlete Kelly (right): walking speed

Let's be honest, the pace is leisurely stroll. Just for comparison: Werner Sunday the complete Berlin Marathon in 2008 with an average of 6.7 hours kilometers completed, at the age of 82 years.

With all due respect for Callis power hungry - but is this really sport? Do I have to predict a tent-like function überstülpen and shirt behind his verquollenen Käsemauken keep the cameras in, as if just the first Sahara crossing succeeded? It appears, therefore, comes as a sport, which is much more of a pastime is meaningful.

FRIENDSHIP WITH ACHIM

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Germany's cult runner is now in one of the largest communities on the web: Visit Achim on Facebook, will be his fan and never miss his columns or more readings. On Twitter you can also live, so what else is driving Achim: sweating or Training tails?

Let the little Kevin in our neighborhood. He says he plays football in the D-youth by FC barefoot Schöneberg. Unfortunately, Kevin has the first eight years of his life as mums Mastferkel spent. Before louder worry, the boy could unterzuckern, Mom was always a place for Leckerli when Kevin was sitting in front of the computer and England manager has played. The school physician has said one day that 82 kilograms perhaps something had nearly one and a half meters in size. Kevin had to do sports in order to decrease.

He cry, but the 300 euro expensive equipment has calmed him: Shoes as Franck Ribéry, wrist purse as Luca Toni and a wide garment like Rainer Calmund. So Kevin came to training. The other children have laughed, but the trainer was a cuddle-teacher: He was Kevin in goal and praised him for no reason. The network was barely visible. But the opposing players were still wish. Kevin was proud. "He plays football now," says the mother. This is true not only because Kevin around. But at least he no longer eats as much as filling in training and in games is prohibited. Fortunately, there is the bottle with it especially delicious.

Kevin and Calli raise the same fundamental issue: Can we laugh about it, because they sport rather than preludes to drive? So we recognize their ability to auto suggestion and let them play? Or shall we say to them, what matter is: There is no great achievement, one hour motionless on the ground and endure a few balls through. And four hours strolling is not a thing for a reasonably healthy central Europeans.

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.

Previously there was a sense of division in sports competitions and people walking. Some ran against the clock, the other moved easily. Today, everything is somehow Marathon and degenerate to ridicule event. Slapstick for all or for some benchmarking Ambitious - where are we now?

The fact is: The term "sport" comes from the Latin "se portar" which "have fun" means. If Callinicos and Kevin feel so happy, they can actually do it themselves as a sports call. From the perspective of other amateur athletes, perhaps a lifetime of disciplined life and practice, is an immense for decades as "Iron Calli", however, a provocation. What has a
publicly acclaimed and staged a run on diet competition looking for?

The cameras, strolling around the whir thicknesses have any recreational runners angry, the two and a half hours before Calmund through with the best goal hechtet, claps and still no pig. And many of the nameless millions of overweight people in the country would be much easier going on a few kilos, if wholly North Rhine-Westphalia, including college sports to take care of their well-being would.

Previously, as Chemnitz Karl-Marx-Stadt was called, there was the marathon there a simple solution for athletes from the rest can be distinguished: The goal was just after two hours and 45 minutes closed.