Empty Handed

We have been granted with VERY little information this year.

There is a lot of joking about the presumably warm/dry weather and a nice outdoor vacation weekend with some friends and family.

We all know it´s just jokes. No one will lure us into false safety.

Time has come to go again, to disconnect, to suffer and to strive.

We come empty handed and the only thing left to rely on is ourselves. Yet we will be there to face and conquer the unknown.

Friday 1800

https://legendstrail250.legendstracking.com/

left: 2020 // right: 2022

2023

So. The whole world is running already;

we saw/are following/will see some remarkable performances on the Duinhopper from acceptnolimits.com which is open since January 1st and the famous Montane Spine Race 2023 is about to start – a lot of live tracking is waiting just a click away.

In both events friends were/are/will be competing and although it is nice to sit in the cozy inside watching the rain and wind penetrating nature – it does not feel completely right. It may be about time to do some running.

Funny as traditions sometimes are: February will be dominated by well-unknown events. We will hold our own marathon mAMa 2023 (already edition 8!) and the Legends Trail is waiting. Again. Battling the Ardennes in winter time. Looking forward to yet another impossible challenge.

In July 2023 a new format is waiting – escape racing starting from the Grauen Kopf with a pretty simple task: get away as far as possible in 48h from that point. Really looking forward to that – drawing tracks on maps, calculating efficiencies vs. the straight line of several options, plan supply – everything your own responsibility. So basically a combination of a lot of lovely things.

In between Legends Trail 2023 in February and Schinder-Trail Prison Break 2023 in July a few smaller challenges may be waiting and a private running weekend with the CREW is already scheduled. Looks like its going to be a good first half of 2023.

Ausblick 2020: die Kurzstrecke

Zwei Läufe sind schon gemeldet in 2020 und es zeichnet sich ein neuer, überraschender Trend ab. Es geht immer auf die Kürzeste aller möglichen Strecken bei den jeweiligen Veranstaltungen. Ganz ungewohnt das Kreuz nicht ganz unten sondern ganz oben zu machen. Das wird wohl bedeuten Tempo und Intervall-Trainingssessions in den Alltag einzubauen.

Was auch immer für Tipps es von Euch da draußen gibt, die mir dabei helfen können sind herzlich willkommen. Wie lang müssen die Intervalle sein, wie häufig sollten Intervalle trainiert werden, sind 15 km Intervalle zu kurz oder ok? Gehpausen dazwischen? Immer her mit den Vorschlägen!

Die beiden kurzen Läufe im ersten Halbjahr 2020 sind:

Kurzstrecke beim Legends-Trail im Februar 2020
Bambini-Lauf bei der TorTour de Ruhr im Mai 2020

Weitere Laufpläne für 2020 sind zwar grob vorhanden, aber noch ist nichts fest zugesagt. Die Herausforderung im Februar wird in den nächsten Wochen alle Konzentration benötigen – danach sehen wir weiter.