Training with Martin Beckmann, almost

The best things in life are when a chain of co-incidences lead to something cool. So it happened this week.
As previously mentioned, I’m down in the south, i.e. in Stuttgart, southern Germany for some days. Of course are the running shoes an integral part of the travelling equipment. It’s week 3 in the count down to the Berlin Marathon and some training on the track would fit well into the program - as it did in every week up to now. So let’s find a track. What better tools are there as online maps with a satellite view. Fire up the web browser and as European I enter “maps.ovi.com” (you can also use the other one from the west coast, should work equally well). Scanning the area for something that looks like a 400m track, it feels like being a spy. There it is, about 5km west of the Stuttgart Airport, where my hotel is located. The track is in a little place called Leinfelden. Read the rest of this entry »