The days here have their different challenges: The heat on day 1, the long distance and elevation yesterday – and today the very bad weather. The race-director and his team decided yesterday in the evening to cancel the planned route due to heavy weather conditions on the first mountain top (thunderstorms predicted). But the new …
Autor: Jens
Yeah – we did it! We passed the longest and hardest stage of any Transalpine-Run: almost 54 kilometres and more than 2500 metres in ascend. For me this was the longest run ever and it is a great feeling that I can achieve very high goals even if you can not estimate this before! Today …
Wow – what a first day! The promise from moderator before starting the race was not wrong: „For today it is not the HIGHWAY TO HELL“ (the song is played before every TAR day) – „Today the trails will be the HIGHWAY TO PARADISE!“ 🙂 Even it was very hot during some uphills the trails …
Due to some organizational problems I unfortunately missed my scheduled flight for this afternoon. But I found another solution (thanks to great team partner Franky who will pick me up at Munich airport even late in the evening…)! Sometimes „happy steps“ move to some kind of „harder steps“ but I am looking so forward to …
This weekend I spent some days in Heidelberg to visit a wedding from friends. And I used the opportunity to go out for two long(er) runs in beautiful sunny nature over the „hills“ around Heidelberg! Highly motivated by the weather, the landscape and memories about times I spent in Heidelberg before the „workouts“ became much …