Relay Marathon
As some of you may have noticed, the graphic for the post about the cross-country run changed to a different event (since corrected). Anyhow, I was actually invited at short notice to take part in that very event.
It was a relay marathon, i.e. a team of 5 men (or 6 women) run a distance of 42.2km divided into 12k (or 6k & 6k for women), 10k, 5k, 10k and finally 5.195k. We did it in a time of 02:58:37 and I did the 12k in 0:55:04! We finished 47th out of 591 male teams mainly due to the super fast times of my teammates:
| Name | Distance | Lap | Total |
| Niggemann, Frank (I filled in) | 12K | 0:55:04 | 0:55:04 |
| Redlin, Uwe | 10K | 0:42:18 | 1:37:23 |
| Kasprik Vidal, Michael | 5K | 0:21:14 | 1:58:37 |
| Arlt, Mario | 10K | 0:40:24 | 2:39:01 |
| Gremmels, Jürgen | 5.195K | 0:19:36 | 2:58:37 |
Conditions were ideal, I increased by distance and shortened my average time marginally so I’m quite pleased. We also went for a buffet brunch afterwards in Prenzlauer Berg (€6.50 excl. drinks). They even had some Christmas cake 
After this I think I’ll just do some casual running at the weekend and think about doing the half-marathon or marathon next year.
November 23rd, 2006 at 2:10 am
good stuff Joe..
keep up the running…
I used Matlab to derive an equation to map your running times as a function, lets call it f(x,t). The result so far: At your current rate MatLab predicts you will be running a marathon in under 2hours by Sunday.
November 23rd, 2006 at 10:07 am
I never believe that voodoo-like program. Too many assumptions and roundings
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:10 pm
Happy christmas