5×5 Staffel Berlin

I never had such a running experience before. My company sponsored 400 people to participate in the 5x5k Staffel by Berliner Wasserbetriebe in Berlin Tiergarten. It was amazing, but the weather was absolutely horrible. Our team “Zalando Running Optimization” was great. We have been 5 women with a Zalando sports magazine rolled as a baton with Zalando tape. All my team members did a great job. Everyone did their best and in the end everyone could have been really satisfied and proud of all of us.

Another group of really good friend of me started as well. It was pretty cool to run with all of them together. We have been really excited in the beginning and in the end everyone enjoyed the atmosphere. And in the end the weather turned better.

So all my team members did the 25k in an absolutely amazing time: 2:20:11

In total we reached place number 975 of 1440 starter groups.

All my friends made pictures but until yet I didn’t receive one.

We own the night run – Nike

It’s already one week ago, but I was totally energyless the last week until yesterday to be honest. But I will tell later about my run yesterday. Here some impressions of my run last friday. To be honest I am a “Nike victim” – It totally love this brand and there is nothing that is better than having a run sponsored by Nike. My company gave us personal trainer for 6 weeks as well and we got a cool “We own the night” shirt by Nike and by my company as well. And the best thing was, that I could enjoyed the whole run by having my best friends around me. All my girls participated in the run and also my boy-friend came around to support us.

Everything felt like a camp only for ladies and the whole atmosphere was to energized. Absolutly great. But of course the 10k wasn’t that easy even when the atmosphere was unbelievable. I was totally banned by the whole energized air that my first 3 kilometers have been way to fast. In the end my time was ok, but I could stay under 55min – that was actually my aim. But it was not able this time.

Here my results and average speed:

resume – 30. AVON Frauenlauf Berlin

Yesterday all the girls and me had our 10k in Berlin. We ran through the Tiergarten and it took us approx. 50-55 minutes. In the end we have been so satisfied but felt also totally weak. To be honest it was horrible. The whole 10k a whole women crowd that was running through really small paths and almost no opportunity to run for yourself. There have been 18.000 women who ran the whole day in different classes. There have been 4036 women who did the 10k. And probably you can imagine that 4.000 ladies are running really close to each other when the path is so meager. But of course it was a great experience. The whole atmosphere was great. In the beginning we “danced” a bit and waved our hands in the air.

girls before 10k in Berlin Tiergarten

Here are some results

The fasted lady of the day was Irina Mikitenko with 34:10 min for a 10k. And than only some minutes later my ladies and me cross the line. So here are our results.

KH – 10k – 53:48

SO – 10k – 54:56

KN – 10k – 55:19

SK – 10k – 56:12

MK (me) – 10k – 56:16

girls after 10k in Berlin Tiergarten

So congratulations to all my girls. I’m so proud of you that we “survived” it. I really have to mention that this was my hardest run ever. My aim was to be faster as on my last run last saturday at the 7. BER airport run but it was impossible for me. But in the end we all have been happy that we did it and my great boyfriend ST carried our sportsbags the whole time and he made some great photos.

ST our supporter and photographer

Now we have some time to prepare for the next run. For me it will be the “We own the night” by Nike women run in Berlin about 10k at 24th of May. I’ll let all of you know how the whole training period is and of course who we girls managed this cool run in 3 weeks.