Achievements

Achievements in marathons, in reoccurring events and some highlighted bike challenges.

Marathons and other highlights

Date	Event	Time	Pace
2019-04-28	Hamburg-Marathon	03:41:31	5:15
2019-10-20	Amsterdam-Marathon	03:40:34	5:14
2023-03-12	Heuvelland Marathon (Maastricht -> Vaals)	04:01:36	5:44
2023-04-23	Baloise Antwerp 10 Miles	01:07:31	4:12
2023-06-11	Rhein-Ruhr-Halbmarathon Duisburg	01:38:21	4:40
2023-08-13	Monschau-Marathon	03:47:02	5:23

Reoccurring events

ATG Winterlauf

Distance	Time	Pace	Date
18.00	01:29:26	4:58	2018-12-16
18.00	01:25:24	4:45	2019-12-15
16.00	01:10:15	4:23	2022-03-27
16.00	01:08:22	4:16	2022-12-04

Aachener Benefizlauf

Distance	Time	Pace	Date
10.00	00:49:10	4:55	2018-06-25
10.00	00:48:15	4:50	2019-06-23
10.00	00:45:37	4:34	2022-06-19
10.00	00:45:33	4:33	2023-06-18

Aachener Firmenlauf

Distance	Time	Pace	Date
4.63	00:25:04	5:25	2013-10-02
9.90	00:42:29	4:17	2022-09-23
9.90	00:40:16	4:04	2023-09-22

Aachener Sylvesterlauf

Distance	Time	Pace	Date
10.30	00:49:42	4:50	2017-12-31
10.30	00:45:29	4:25	2018-12-31
10.30	00:43:27	4:13	2019-12-31
9.60	00:39:39	4:08	2022-12-31

Lousberglauf

Distance	Time	Pace	Date
5.56	00:23:18	4:12	2022-07-06
5.56	00:23:36	4:15	2023-07-05

Rursee Marathon

Distance	Time	Pace	Date
16.50	01:22:40	5:01	2019-11-03
16.50	01:17:28	4:42	2021-11-07
16.50	01:15:35	4:35	2022-11-06

Yes, the Aachener Sylvesterlauf used to be called Sylvesterlauf until 2022, it's not a typo. In 2022, they changed the course and the name, and now it's Silvesterlauf.

A selection of pictures from those events that I bought Sportograf (The picture on the start page is also from Sportgraf, from the Winterlauf 2019):

Development

This comes straight from my Garmin data for running which I am tracking since 2017. In the three charts you see the minimum, median and the maximum as well as the p05 and p95 percentiles. I created buckets for the distances in a range of 5% below and 20% over the goal distance.

On bikes

I don't see myself participating in bike races anytime soon, but I did do some pretty cool challenges in the last couple of years, such as doing the Stoneman Arduenna on a Gravel bike in one day, racing the Vätternrundan and becoming a true Flandrien.

August 2023, My cobble on Flandrien Challenge wall of fame

Apart from collecting the "Gran Fondo"-Badge every month since 2018 on Strava, I did the Rapha Festive500 challenge 5 years in a row:

Early September 2023 I managed to reach a 42x42 explore square, and I'm quite happy about it. More will be quite complicated, with the open-brown-coal mine in the east and some nature reserves in the south.