# 1116 - Uwe Ochsenknecht Marathon on Jan. 7th, 2007

Today, on Sunday, Jan. 7th, 2007 it has been much colder than yesterday: just 3 °C when we started the 16.3 laps of the Uwe Ochsenknecht Marathon (Uwe Ochsenknecht is a German actor, born on Jan. 7th, 1956). But anyway - it's still quite mild for this time of the year.
I covered the whole distance today with Ulf who ran a "sub 4" (3.58.35 h) yesterday and so he has been quite tired today. We've ran much steadier than I did yesterday with Manfred. So we slowed down only a little bit in the 2nd half, did this 2nd half today just 6 minutes better than yesterday, and so we finished after 5.53.49 h.
On the opposite it was funny to look after Wolfgang: He's preparing for a 75 K "Fun Run" on February 25th with a time limit of 5:05 hours at the marathon mark. Today he started very fast, overlapped us twice, but quite soon he had to struggle very hard, and before we could catch him again he dropped out after about 2 third of the distance. Bad luck...
Anyway - it has been a hard day on the trails, but nevertheless a good one!
Results on: http://www.hottas.de/cho01/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2697&Itemid=26
Longer report (in German): http://www.hottas.de/cho01/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2696&Itemid=95