Ironman   In 2001, I had the idea of completing an Ironman before I reached 50. An Ironman consists of swimming 3.8 kilometres, cycling 180 kilometres, and then running a marathon. The first Ironman was held in Hawaii on 18th February 1978 after a group of Navy SEALs had been discussing, who was in the […]

Student job with DFDS   My agreement with Jamie the day before that year’s Great Wall run turned into more than just empty talk. Jamie arrived in Denmark at the end of May to begin her study job at DFDS on the MS Crown of Scandinavia. The ferry company had paid her fare and gave […]

The Great Belt is the strait between Denmark’s two main islands, Zealand and Funen. I completed a wonderful marathon in excellent weather on 20th June 2010 within sight of this splendid stretch of water. The race started in the city of Slagelse, passing through three patches of woodland and along three beaches before finishing in […]

I ran the Copenhagen Marathon in 2003 purely because The Great Wall Marathon had been cancelled due to the SARS epidemic. I had not expected to run in my own capital again, simply because the city’s marathon is traditionally run more or less at the same time as my Chinese favourite.   But on 28th […]

Albatros contract renewed   After the tenth anniversary run in 2009, things had returned to “normal”. But The Great Wall Marathon is always spectacular and quite unique, and of course so was this year’s run too. We had been anxious to hear whether Albatros Travel would maintain its rights to the marathon because the first […]

Home turf   During the Rudersdal Marathon, a man by the name of Jan Marott Behrens from a club called Run for Your Life had told me about a project. He and three other people had to run 12 marathons in 12 months. He had heard of runners, who had done 100 marathons in a […]

In 2009, Karin gave me a Christmas present I hadn’t expected. It was a Garmin Forerunner 305 heart rate monitor with GPS. I had heard runners equipped with something that beat constantly and found it rather annoying. Now I was standing there with one myself thinking: “What am I going to use this for?” But […]

Denmark again   For the first time in 3 1/2 years, I was again to run a marathon in Denmark. It was also more than three years ago that I had last run the distance in Europe. On Saturday 14th November 2009, I took part in Rudersdal Marathon.     Permanent course   Rudersdal Marathon […]

A new marathon at long last   Having presented new, very special runs like beads on a string in the years 1999 to 2005, four years went by before Adventure Marathon “gave birth” to something new: Petra Marathon in Jordan.   Ancient city   Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans from the fourth century […]