Harz-Mountain Run- Up and Down the Brocken

Annually and this year for the 35th time at the 2nd weekend in October is the Harz-mountain run in Werningerode. A marathon up and down the Brocken with  more than 1000m of altitude, you also can run a half marathon, which is also quite exhausting… There were about 1000 participants fort he marathon distance Daniela and myself at the starting line of our first single marathon… The start was at 9:00o´clock, quite full, but soon the field seperated itself… The scenery is quite nice at the foot of the mountain in Ilsenburg, than heading towards the Ilsental towards the Brocken. The ascents are quite hard, but in between you even got some flat parts to recover a bit. A few km´s before the peak we recieved some yellow bags to pull over… Sometime, the sun was gone and the mist came. When we rached the peak we jsut had 0degrees and a fiere wind. After 19km just downhill, just two small ascents, which hurt a bit in your legs, but the last 6km a constant downhill. When I came into the finish area, I tried the original Brocken-marathon nutrition: the slime. Daniela tried it, during the run and said it was good. It was a wonderful running event with a long tradition and there were more participants than we expected. The next day we took a look at the half marathon distance just to recover. We can recommend it ;-) Daniela and Torben

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