Schlagwort-Archive: Loops

24h Lauf Dorsten 2024

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Kurzentschlossen zum 2. 24h Lauf Dorsten angemeldet um einen Rahmen für den längeren Lauf im Juli 2024 zu haben und um etwas die Stabilität, Verlässlichkeit sowie die Konsistenz im Laufen zu überprüfen. Nach Monaten voller Trail-Abenteuer ist es of schwer abzuschätzen wie es um das eigentliche Laufen/die Verfassung so steht. Auf der Art Trail die bevorzugt unter die Füße gefallen ist seit Jahresbeginn (mit Ausnahme des Backyards im April) gab es selten zeitliche Zwänge und es ging mehr darum die komplexe Strecke überhaupt zu schaffen als dabei noch viel übers Laufen an sich zu regeln.

Gerade in Richtung einer möglichen Teilnahme an der Backyard-WM im Oktober erschien es aber sinnvoll sich genau darum mal zu kümmern, bzw. zu verstehen wie viel Arbeit in der Vorbereitung noch zu tun ist.

Fazit: der Körper hat die 7 km/h im Schnitt klaglos ausgehalten. Laufen war bis zum Ende noch drin (auch wenn die Gehpausen natürlich häufiger wurden), Müdigkeit war kaum vorhanden und Pausen habe ich überhaupt nicht gebraucht. Das ist für meine Verhältnisse ordentlich. Auch die 173 km und damit die neue PB über 24h war ein überaus erfreuliches Ergebnis (3. Platz gesamt).

das Dorstener Dreieck (947 m) x 183 (blau = downhill; rot = uphill)

Das Event war gut organisiert – viele Sponsoren für den guten Zweck wurden gefunden und so mangelte es an nichts und unsere Startgelder konnten komplett gespendet werden. Vielen Dank an die Orga. Etwas Bedenken hatte ich ob der recht engen Wege – aber auch das war bis auf wenige Augenblicke wo „alle“ unterwegs waren kein Problem. Zudem waren die Höhenmeter auf ein sehr kurzes Stück konzentriert und wurden dann sehr sanft über den Rest der Strecke abgebaut – ideal fürs Dauerkreiseln. Obendrein hatte der Sommer zumindest die ersten 20 Stunden noch Pause – perfekte Bedingungen fürs Laufen.

Kurz vor Ende des Rennens waren die ersten 3 Plätze klar und wir haben uns zu dritt auf der letzten Runde zusammengeschlossen um das Event gebührend zu beenden sowie René zu seiner super Leistung zu gratulieren (Alois: 194 Runden – René: 204 Runden).

Foto: Dorstener Zeitung – vielen Dank!

Statistik: 40. Lauf über 100 Meilen oder mehr; PB 24h von 166 km auf 173 km verbessert.

#iceberg42 2021

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The idea was born and grew within several chats on various platforms during the 2020 summer – impossible to nail it down to one single conversation. It had something to do with: we still need a fourth run for our challenge – let’s do something with loops – what about a bit of elevation gain? At the end The Iceberg track was born. It was a co-production of acceptnolimits.eu and pfadsucher.com which more and more turns into a fruitful collaboration.

The Iceberg

If you wonder about the name „Iceberg“ of the run – well, that is a different story. To be told one day. Maybe. Different platforms show different values on the actual track lengths but we agreed to make it 100 mi. At the end (during the race) we decided that this means 42 loops.

Hard to describe the running itself. At the beginning (first 5-8 loops) it was really enjoyable. You run up and then down again where you find your car parked and packed with all the supply you would possible need. And then you do that again. And again.

And again.

Slowly but surely you enter in a different dimension of time and meaning. There are two numbers you keep an eye on: loop time of the current loop and the total loop count (at the beginning you count up, at the end you count down). Everything else vanishes behind a blurry curtain. Because nothing else matters. To continue is the key, no matter what. The focus on the loop was extreme after a while. Every step felt like automatic. At the end you look on a root or a stone or a puddle in the focus of your headlamp and know immediately if you better use your right or your left foot, where exactly you need to place your poles and how much strength you need to manage that step. An extraordinary level of details are burned-in your head.

Really difficult to describe. We had all kind of weathers (expect snow) and the course really suffered. At the end it was a muddy, slippery, horrible steep something we were climbing up and down again and again. What keeps you moving? I heard different explanations during these two days in Coo but you need to find your own answer by trying to finish. If you manage to find something that pushes you enough you may be one of the happy few lunatics.

  • 50% done!
  • Everesting!
  • Finish!

After 41h and 27m it was done. 168 km (my GPS jumped somewhere) and 11.213 m of elevation gain. An interesting experience. Thanks to all who finished, tried to and supported – it was a really intense 48h time period on this parking lot in Coo and we will tell the story a lot in the future. Next time we go there we better visit the theme park over there and take the ropeway to visit the tower. Or we directly jump to the part of drinking a beer together.

Here are some runalyze.com exports of the run data:

A nice description of the loop included in the race report of Marek can be found here.

25% done.

Trail-Art – Legends Tracking Artists
Iceberg42 2021 Finishers

The circle is closed – AOBtD 2020

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Let me start with the Another One Bites the Dust poem by Teun Geurts. Teun was supporting this year and his words fit perfectly – thanks Teun:

They were thirteen and they were running
They started running when the sun went down
They ran into the dark and all through the night
When the sun came up and warmed the dust
And still the thirteen were running

They ran for no special reason, it’s just what they do
They ran for no special reason, into the light

The sun ran its course all through the sky
And still the thirteen were running
They ran their course on the face of the earth
The wind in their faces, biting the dust
And still the thirteen were running

They ran for no special reason, it’s just what they do
They ran for no special reason, chasing the light

The light started to fade from the sky
And still the thirteen were running
Rain on their faces, washing the dust
Hundreds of swallows sweeping the sky
And still the thirteen were running

They ran for no special reason, it’s just what they do
They ran for no special reason, into the night

The Legends Slam 2019-2020 is done. Since the very first race of the series The Great Escape back in November 2019 the idea of just crossing one by one of it from the agenda somehow got me. What was a far away dream back then started to become more and more realistic. Even more so with the Legends Trail 250 finish this February. Only one to go. Corona hit all of us and races were cancelled one by one and Another One Bites the Dust was postponed and finally cancelled. But not for the 13 runners still in the race for The Legends Slam.

  • Corona Legends
  • Home
  • Random people waiting for the start

Being one of the lucky ones I was allowed to participate in a very special race. Huge thanks to the LT Team/Legendary Friends for putting the whole trail city up for the few of us. It was a very nice, calm and unique atmosphere. As I did not bring any crew, Fanny thankfully agreed to help me and did an amazing job. We grew into a good team and her support became more and more crucial the longer the race lasted and helped a lot to keep me up and running.

The race itself is hard to describe – you better do it yourself to understand how it is. Basically it is all about timing and thing which can happen to you is, that you find a rhythm that consumes you in a way that you stop thinking and act like a machine doing the same job over and over again – run the same 6.3 km loop:

AOBtD splits

For me it started to become difficult somewhat around loop 18. But well, on one point it should get difficult. I was not able to make up my mind to fully switch to race mode and I stayed with the mantra: just finish the 28 loops by whatever means. Then you are free again.

  • Loop 1
  • Saturday noon.
  • Saturday afternoon I
  • Untouched.
  • Saturday afternoon II
  • Saturday afternoon III

What impressed me most was the fact how those 12 runners around me faced the task. Running amongst these Legends made me proud. No mistakes, discipline and precision all over. It was like looking at a fine-tuned pice of art. Every step well chosen, each corner perfectly cut, each piece of runnable ground used – amazing performance.

And finally. Saturday night 23:55 it was finally over. 28 loops done – Legends Slam 2019-2020 finished. What a relieve it was…

The Finish.
The DNF job needs to be done!
The End.

I think it is time to rest now. And to say thank you to my family who accepts my running and to the inner circle of runners/friends which was formed throughout the last 2-3 exciting years and which is always a source of motivation and power. This success would not have been possible without all of you. What can possibly come after all of this? Who knows.

But with friends like I have I expect it to be spectacular.