From high above

I crashed from high above... just two days after accomplishing my exams in dentistry I managed to sprain my ankle enough so that I need to take one month off from running. I was supposed to fly to the World military champs in Brazil today. Well instead 4 days ago, the day of the accident, I began my winter break. I am supposed to be on crutches for 1 week, than i can slowly start with physical therapy and by the end of the third week I can learn again slowly how to run.
Of course I am disappointed I couldn't finish my season like I had planed. But if my leg is again 100% after the therapy, this accident will not have bothered me too much. That is why I am doing all I can to get the best quality healing

Marc is a dentist!

Marc is finally done with his dental exams!!He passed his last exam today and is now done with his education in dental school! Marc will start working part time as a dentist at the end of the year, but will also invest more time into orienteering in the coming years!

Congratulations Marc!
--Sandra

Last exams and my first marathon

Long time no news. I am about to beginn with my last session of exams (4 out of 21) this Wednesday. I had 2 weeks to prepare for them since I ended the last exam. But today I planed to give my brain a little break and run a wonderful marathon. What I wrote on my training diary: "My first marathon. I started slowly with my brother to spend some time with him and started racing after 2km in the competition. Caught up with the lead after 7km. After the 10th km I was leading alone... 32km alone ahead is a long time, but the beauty of the scenery always gave me some distraction. 7km before the finish I heard I would be on track to break the course record. So I started pushing hard from this point on. By the last km I was starting to feel anxious to be in the finish, I was getting really tired.... I guess I paced myself just well. I am happy with my first marathon experience.

Running relaxed and easy...hum, doesn't really look like it :-)



A really nice race on a really nice day. 1640m of climb. It was not really good for road runners, that's true. A lot of little trails with big steps, tree roots and big stones. Most downhills were really steep and the profil constantly changed... I liked it. I ran in with 2hrs58min and beat the course record by 1.5min."

Sandra ran in a team with Cornelia Luder the first 1/2 half of the marathon. The two girls won the womens category with a really good time of 3hr44!

More to read in German: http://www.napf-marathon.ch/download/PD%20Leichtathletik.pdf