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When I started out on my running career back in the summer of 2006 with the Holzstraßenlauf half-marathon, I was just testing grounds, in search of a replacement for my fading football passion. While I struggled to finish those 21 ks in a little more than 1:30 hrs, it was easy to realize that running would be just that – a rewarding, pleasurable, healthy pastime.

It’s been four years now since I started to run on a regular basis. Running has done a lot for me and I have done a lot of running, covering about 10’000 miles (16’000 km)n in the interim. Read the rest of this entry »

Einstern is on holiday from June 19 to June 30

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We will back in duty on July 1. Looking forward to be at your service soon.

Der Boston Marathon (kurz BM) nimmt für sich in Anspruch, der älteste und traditionsreichste Marathon der Welt zu sein. Am 19. April 2010 wurde dieser Lauf über die legendäre Distanz von 42,195 km oder 26.2 Meilen zum 114. Mal ausgetragen. Er wurde zum ersten Mal, ein Jahr nach den ersten Olympischen Spielen, 1897 veranstaltet und findet seither mit einer kurzen Unterbrechung jährlich jeden dritten Montag im April am Patriots Day statt. Beim ersten Lauf 1897 nahmen 15 Teilnehmer teil, jetzt sind es 26.000 und mehr. Für den 114. Boston Marathon meldeten sich insgesamt 26.735 LäuferInnen, 23.126 nahmen tatsächlich teil, 97,9 % davon oder 22.645 schafften es über die Ziellinie in der Boylston Street.
Gerade von einem beeindruckenden Marathon-Erlebnis heim gekehrt, entschloss ich mich im Oktober 2009 spontan daran teilzunehmen. Read the rest of this entry »

Quick entry for now
. The 114th Boston marathon has been successfully completed, again under 3 hrs, the 5th consecutive time. While this marathon was one of the hardest because of ugly head-wind gusts starting after 5 ks and a hilly course with quite a few of 300 – 1.000 m climbs, the atmosphere was just outstanding – the Americans can get really crazy when it comes to sports. Sometimes the noise was deafening.

The second half was especially tough with the wind getting stronger and more climbs coming up, especially Heartbreak Hill, a hilly section in the suburb of Newton between miles 17 and 21. My feet worsened as soon as kilometer 15 and I had to run very carefully in order to avoid early cramps .

After Heartbreak Hill it is mostly downhill. But with sore legs this is quite a task to accomplish, especially when time is against you. I almost sped up too early but managed to overcome a cramp problem with just 1 mile to go soon enough in order to finish in 2:59:31 hrs: mission accomplished.

Then it was another long walk to gather my changing clothes and meet up with Sylvia, Jean-Pierre, Susi, Stefan and Julian and celebrate the successful run. We went to Jakobs Wirth, a Bavarian beer house in Boston city, and relished on Fish and Chips, Paulaner Hefeweizen and a Guiness. Spiro, a friend from Melbourne, joined us, putting a perfect end to a breath-taking day.

More on the marathon soon…

Sunday afternoon here at the Kallanian’s, waiting for lunch with just 18 hours to go for my 7th marathon. When I will take the first step into my 2nd marathon in the masters series at the oldest martahon of the world, I am already a winner since I was lucky enough to even have made it to Boston.
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