I almost followed the Doctors advice...

We went to Hanover this weekend to visit our family and meet some of our running friends.

We had a great Kaffee-Afternoon at Wolfgang and Elke's place together with Jürgen, Franz and Jan on Saturday. On Sunday morning I felt really well and so I decided to run with Gerhard, who tried to beat his 4:07 and stay sub4. Shortly before the start I met some of my SC Polonia km Spiel fellows. Great people, have to say! The gun went off and Jan, a veteran Ultra runner and I started the run with Gerhard. He was very well prepared and for the first 10k we had to slow him down. We passed 10k in 55:50min. At 18k Christiane joined us. We passed the half in 1:58 net. Well done so far! The course is really flat and the weather was perfect for a Marathon: 12 C and cloudy, no wind. At 35k I told Gerhard that he should try to speed up a little. As a result, we ran the next km in 5:10 and then a 5:00! Holy cow, there was still gas in the tank! We slowed down a little bit again but not much. Finally, Gerhard finished in 3:54:00 net. Perfect PB and a strong finish for sure. So, I ran a total of 42,2k but I did not ran it all out. I guess that was a good compromise. Running pictures to follow shortly.