Born to run - live to travel: A running threesome

Portimao

I had a good run today which means i hit my 100 mile training week in the last five days in three different countries: a 60 km (38 miles) in Germany on Friday, the Rotterdam Marathon in The Netherlands on Sunday and today a 60 km (38 miles) in Portugal. And I hit the 1K miles today (1600 km) this year.

The run in Germany was a 38 mile or 60KM run in the forest in the Nortnern part of Germany, about 15 miles north of Hamburg.

This was on Friday - The next day I heard on the radio that the Rotterdam marathon was happening on Sunday which completely skipped my mind, since I don't live in The Netherlands. I did the Rottterdam marathon several times, back in the days (read 'back in the 80's)

and always loved this race, as the amount of people along the route is enormous. They estimate 1,000.000 spectators....what an event. Small problem though is that I wanted to do this race but didn't have a bib. Another problem is that I was 400 miles or 700km away......driving would take a the whole day.

But, where a will is....and thus with some sore muscles I decided to give it a change. Got in my car and drove from Hamburg to Rotterdam where I arrived at 10:00 pm - throughout the day I found out that some runners were selling their race number and guess what...I found a runner who wasn't able to go and thus I bought his race bib. Slept in the car somewhere close to the race and fell like shit when I woke up after driving 400 miles and staying overnight in a car. Great way to prepare for a race :)

But ok - I managed to start AND managed to finished in 3:15:00 so not bad.

After the race in Rotterdam I drove to my mom in Breda, and two days later we drove to the airport to fly to Portimao, an area in the southwest area in Portugal for a family reunion