The glass was overflowing   The spring of 2005 was a busy and stressful period for me. Our family firm was challenged and faced a battle for survival, and at the same time it was the season for ending the annual accounts and tax returns for clients of my own accountancy firm.   I also […]

New date   All The Great Wall Marathons have been run in May. The first two years, they were on the fourth Wednesday of the month, and the next three years on the fourth Saturday. From 2005, The Great Wall Marathon was run on the third Saturday of May. That was the way it was […]

Not so straightforward   My first city marathon in Berlin in 1999 had given me a taste for big, famous marathons, and I wanted to try another one. Elisabeth was living in central London at the time, just a stone’s throw from Hyde Park, and during the Christmas holidays of 1999, I ran in the […]

Two marathon partisans   I first met Anne Grete and Holger Jacobsen from Aabenraa in Southern Jutland on the trip to Greenland in 2001. Two years later, In Tibet, I was in the same group as them, and we got to know each other better. Anne Grete and Holger are wonderful people, and I have […]

A small group   Delayed by a whole year, the fifth Great Wall Marathon was run in May 2004. As Søren had promised three years previously, I didn’t have to pay for the trip itself.   We set off on the evening of Tuesday 18th May with the smallest group I had travelled with to […]

I became acquainted with Thomas Thomsen on the very first day of my very first marathon trip to China in 1999. This would turn out from the very beginning to be a close and lasting friendship.   Thomas has from the outset been at the heart of Adventure Marathon runs. Together with Søren Rasmussen and […]

Marathon at sea   Running a marathon on the open sea – is that at all possible? As a matter of fact, it is! I ran one with a group of runners who shared my fondness of experiences with a difference. Not only did we run on the water, we also did so on my […]

Run a marathon on New Year’s Eve? Have you ever heard anything like it?! But that’s just what I did in the New Year 2003/2004, which meant that I had run nine marathons in a year, the most I have done and perhaps also my limit.   The Social Marathon was run for the first […]

My first city Marathon in Berlin in 1999 had been a tremendous experience, so a return visit was on my wish list. After my visit to Stockholm in June with Karin, we decided to go on another weekend with a tent, sleeping bags and marathon for me. This was to be in Berlin on 28th […]

The Aarhus City Marathon was organised by the athletics club Aarhus 1900. The marathon is, unfortunately, no longer run, but I was lucky to run in the Jutland capital while I could. I ran on Sunday 14th September 2003 and was alone on this trip.   The start was at 10 a.m., and running numbers […]