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The Polar Circle Marathon 2001

November 20 2013

The coolest Marathon on Earth on Greenland’s in a nice in the direction of VW’s secret test track. The consequences of not looking after yourself. Royal visit and a cruise in the Disko Bay. Reports of the extreme powers of nature, a bus that broke down and indescribable emotions on 11 September. After trips to […]

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24 hours Viborg 2001

November 13 2013

Three marathons in 24 hours round a lake. The tale of pouring rain in the dark of night with a runner about to fall apart and subsequently forced to take a pit stop in a tent. A 24-hour relay race was arranged in Viborg for, among others, the people who ran in Kenya. With what […]

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North Sea Beach Marathon 2001

November 6 2013

42 kilometers straight ahead without one single hill, a brisk wind, the roar of the North Sea, changing surfaces but with sand all the way. What happens I wonder if you speed up your own run for a loving squeeze?   My first actual marathon in Denmark turned out to be an odd sort of […]

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The Karen Blixen Marathon 2000

October 30 2013

In Africa with the world´s best middle distance runners, dried-out water stations, cheats with alternative running methods, problematic vaccinations, a young man’s debut as a half-marathon runner, exotic food, rhinos, thousands of flamingos, a bloodthirsty fish eagle, the world’s most drawn-out presidential election and a coffee farm. The Great Wall Marathon became big sister when […]

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Ultra Marathon Bornholm 2000

October 23 2013

We had to struggle through the race on the sunshine island of Bornholm in eastern Denmark on the wettest rainy day of 2000. All the way round the island, up and down hills and cliffs, a distance of 100 kilometers gave the marathon distance entirely new dimensions. Can a marathon runner catch up with a […]

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The Great Wall Marathon 2000

October 17 2013

The new millennium with a repeat of the fantastic run in China. This time with very few participants, but now with an international cut. Newly divorced, on my first journey with two children. The story of the runner who forgot his flight but got there anyway. The world’s toughest marathon, now even tougher in the […]

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The wildest marathon improvement – Berlin 1999

October 9 2013

How do you improve your personal marathon record by two hours and four minutes in just four months? You start your career with The Great Wall Marathon and follow-up with the Berlin Marathon. On the same occasion I experienced running with almost a hundred times as many athletes as I did on my debut.   […]

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The Great Wall Marathon 1999

October 1 2013

A story begins The fact that I was going to China was nothing unusual in itself. I have always been the perfect spectator, beer in hand. Running a marathon was simply unthinkable. A provocation 2½ months before the run turned my life upside down. On 26 May 1999 at 10 a.m., 306 Danes stood ready […]

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Birth of The Great Wall Marathon

September 25 2013

From humble beginnings in the early 1980s, Albatros Travel grew over the next couple of decades to become Denmark’s leader in specialist travel to exotic destinations in every corner of the Earth, leaving ordinary package holidays to other providers. One hot summer day in 1998, a group of the company’s staff met on Kultorvet, a […]

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