It was a great and relaxing weekend in Hamburg and I've enjoyed all the activities with Charlotte, Knaui, Bodo, Daniel and Georg. We went to the running fair and got our numbers there, have been to the Landungsbruecken and the Elbterrassen with temperatures around 25 degrees in April and have been invited to a delicious dinner to Charlotte and Markus with a lot of pasta - the bases for the great run on the next day ;-)
Sunday morning we haven't been the only ones at the hotel bar with running shoes - there have been probably 20-30 other visitors with the goal to finish the Hamburg Marathon this day. After the breakfast we met Georg at the start and at 9:10 o'clock the marathon starts on a beautiful sunny day with more than 700.000 people around the trail and more than 17.000 runners. I've been able to finish the marathon under four hours in 3:55:44 hours and my times have been quite similar all over the race.
| KM | Time |
|---|---|
| 5 | 0:29:52 |
| 10 | 0:57:49 (0:27:56) |
| 15 | 1:25:01 (0:27:12) |
| 20 | 1:52:36 (0:27:35) |
| 25 | 2:19:59 (0:27:23) |
| 30 | 2:47:31 (0:27:32) |
| 35 | 3:15:23 (0:27:52) |
| 40 | 3:43:28 (0:28:05) |
| 42,2 | 3:55:44 |
For the dinner on Sunday we met Charlotte, Knaui and Bodo and enjoyed a nice evening at the Sporthalle St. Georg. Monday, we went shopping and later we drove to St. Peter-Ording and walked a little bit at the beach and enjoyed a yummy sandwich from Charlotte at the beach. Tuesday, we went sailing on the Alster and started a barbecue later on at the shore. All together the day's and the marathon event just have been great and I really recommend to everybody to go for the marathon once in Hamburg.