April 1st 2007 - the date that had popped into my head during the passed 3 months every time that laziness reigned and the inner temptation was to lay on the couch.
Suddenly it had come: THE DAY X-Freiburg Marathon 2007.

The preparations went as planned and so I made my way to Freiburg highly motivated.

A week beforehand, the starting time had been moved 15min back to 11:20am, since the Palm Sunday procession, as well as the marathon, would be going through the city.
The marathon was almost two identical laps, while the half marathon was one.
For starters: the start of the half marathon stayed as scheduled at 1:05pm… crazy, when suddenly 8000 more runners are on the track on you run right into them…
But first, the start: totally concentrated with my competition poker face, I was off…
staying amongst the crowd, running through Freiburg in a world-class atmosphere...

....and the odd fellow runners...

The first lap went by quickly, but then the actually avoidable happened: a wall of 8000 half marathon runners, which meant a "traffic jam" on the track! Somehow I got through it, ran as if being chased to make up for lost time and this is what almost came back to bite me in the ass… but only almost.

I finished after 3:49h and was pretty beat. Afterwards, I was off to the hotel, took a hot shower, put up my legs - good thing my personal supervisor was at my beckon call - a great big thank you to Jess at this point!

I was already able to laugh again the next day and enjoy myself on an extended shopping tour through Freiburg.

I already looking forward to next time and the coming season on the Pirate

Nina