The Hans Christian Andersen Marathon is run, naturally enough, in the city of Odense and named after its world-famous writer. It was run for the first time in 2000, which means that I first ran in its second year – and again in 2010. I had signed up for 2003 but had to stay home […]

With an injury in the thigh I managed to complete this year’s edition of The Great Wall Marathon in sharp trot. In fact, my finish time was my 8 best through the 16 years. Strange that powerwalk can match running. For a day the title as Mr. Great Wall became to Mr. Great Walk.  

The dynamic trio’s third initiative   Having already sent us on three trips to the heat in China and one to the African Savannah, the organisers behind Adventure Marathon obviously thought it was time to cool us down a bit. Not long after we got home from The Karen Blixen Marathon in 2000, I received […]

During journeys around the world, you get to meet a lot of people, and you make some good contacts, too. Once in a while you agree to meet again, but often nothing comes of it. Among the runners in The Karen Blixen Marathon in 2000 was a man called Rolf Bücking from Viborg. He had […]

My first actual marathon in Denmark turned out to be an odd sort of race. But this wasn’t so odd, in fact, because up to that time I had only run extreme marathons, apart from Berlin, of course. I can no longer remember how it came about that my Danish debut was on the west […]

Together with Søren Rasmussen and I, Peter Fredberg was for the first few years one of the “eternal” trio in The Great Wall Marathon. Unlike the rest of us, Peter is a proper sportsman who has been keeping himself going since his youth.   The once “eternal” trio: Søren Rasmussen with race number 39 and […]

The men behind The Great Wall Marathon and the subsequent races, which later became known as Adventure Marathons, are the trio Thomas Thomsen, Søren Rasmussen and Peter Fredberg. As the representative of the Danish Athletics Federation, Thomas has been responsible over the years for the technical implementation of the run and stood at the end […]

Third time lucky   For me, there was no doubt that I was going to join the third trip to the Wall. I felt that I needed to take revenge after the run with the blisters, and my promise to Søren Rasmussen was also etched in my mind. It is less clear to me now […]

With marathons in 19 countries, am I now member of the Marathon Globerotters.    

  One would think it would take ages to recover from a run all the way round Bornholm, but there was no time for that because I had already signed up for a marathon in November long before I had even heard of the 100 kilometre run on the rocky island.   The organiser trio, […]