Fun run

A fun run (also Citylauf ) is a running sport event of mass sport.

Fun runs are held usually at distances of 5 km to the marathon distance ( 42.195 km ). The path of a nation run can run on roads, park and walking trails or forest roads, or on a combination of these floor coverings.

In contrast to pure "fun runs " are in open races, the running times of the participants identified and created result lists with rankings. Often, shall be supplied and issued medals for achieving the target. However, most are running the fun, the joy of personal achievement by overcoming a distance and popularizing the sport of running in the foreground.

Importance

2008 took part in Germany over 2 million runners in 3682 fun runs.

The people running movement has until today, reinforced by the general fitness craze, get an almost constant growth, ie since 1964, there is a nearly continuous increase in both the number of fun runs offered as well as in the number of participants.

The climate, to find the most fun runs take place in spring and autumn. However, the range of community runs extending over the whole year, and even in winter there are with winter running series and New Year's Eve runs a wide range of running events.

Demarcation to road race

A fun run is different from a road race ( in the sense of formal definition of Athletics Federations ) by less stringent participation requirements and is distinguished by less regulation of distance, implementation and services provided. A club membership and the possession of a license issued by the Association of Home Passes are not required. Often, the distances are not measured according to the guidelines of Athletics Federations, which one of the requirements would be that the times recorded were included in the leaderboards. A fun run is a large sporting event as opposed to performance- oriented sporty road race.

The boundaries, however, are blurred, because many participants and especially the very strong events are held, 'combined road and cross-country race. " Such events meet at the track surveying the more stringent criteria of a road run, allow both unbound and club runners as participants, but consider for leaderboards and optionally integrated championship ratings only owner of a dressing - start license.

Timekeeping

In runs with many participants is the traditional form of time measurement with a tripped at the launch stopwatch - or its electronic equivalent - not fair because not all starters can cross the starting line at the same time. For events with several hundred runners, it may take a few minutes until the last runner crossed the starting line. Therefore, most transponders are used, which are attached to the shoe, called running chips, or are integrated into the starting number. At the start and finish line then corresponding receivers are installed. The transponder solve the overflow of the start line from the timekeeping and register the actual elapsed time of each athlete from crossing the start line to the crossing of the finish line (so-called " net time ").

In runs with very high participation, the starter will also be sorted before the start according to their current mileages, so the favorites are already at the start in the first rows. This crosses the overall winner is usually also the first to the finish line and there is no need to wait until all the runners have reached the goal and the actual time was calculated with the award ceremonies.

History

The first public run of the Federal Republic took place in Bobingen near Augsburg on 13 October 1963. 1654 participants from all age groups ran or walked in the Natural Park Augsburg - Western forests hilly routes between 800 meters and twelve kilometers. The initiators Otto Hosse, who is already dead, and Herwig ladder, then 22 years old, are considered pioneers of the running motion. The two athletes had witnessed in Switzerland so-called defense runs that should encourage the condition of the federal men for the purpose of national defense. Hosse and head modified this concept and turned it into an athletics event for the whole family. Even then, the Bobinger organizers had the aspect of health care in mind, for the early sixties, the media reported the first time about a possible link between lack of exercise and certain diseases. Fun runs after the Bobinger model were conducted from the spring of 1964 with the active support of Otto Hosse and Herwig director in more places of the Federal Republic.

Strongest participants folk running events in Germany

The best-attended public runs in Germany in 2010 were:

• Berlin Marathon ( 38 892 )
• B2RUN Munich ( 23 664 )
• Berlin Half Marathon ( 21 263 )
• Cologne Marathon ( 17,277 )
• Hamburg Marathon ( 14,294 )
• Munich Marathon ( 13,670 )
• Company run Saarland ( 12,114 )
• GutsMuths Rennsteiglauf ( 12,065 )
• Munich City Run ( 11,389 )
• Frankfurt Marathon ( 10,919 )

New Year's Eve runs

Germany

A special New Year's Eve tradition make runs dar. There are nearly 100 New Year's Eve Runs in Germany, including:

• New Year's run from Werl to Soest (largest New Year's run in Germany, 2007: 4906 participants in the target )
• Bietigheimer New Year's run in Bietigheim -Bissingen
• Silvesterlauf Trier ( with elite race 2007: 1647 participants in the target )
• Silvesterlauf Munich (10 km in the Olympic Park, around 3000 participants)
• Silvesterlauf Osnabrück ( with more than 2000 participants )
• Silvesterlauf Gersthofen ( with more than 1000 participants )
• Silvesterlauf Kaufungen ( around 1000 participants, known as " Hessian Sao Paulo " )

Other countries

In Austria, among others, the New Year's run Peuerbach takes place.

The world's most famous New Year's run is the Corrida Internacional Sao Silvestre in Sao Paulo, which has been held since 1925. Biggest New Year's run in Europe is the San Silvestre Vallecana in Madrid with almost 18,000 participants. Other well-known New Year's Eve Runs in Europe are the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona with about 8000 participants and the BOclassic in Bolzano. The Zurich New Year's run with about 9000 participants will despite its name in mid- December.

Others

The best-known German recreational runners may have been from Ludwigshafen Paul Eppel ( 1918-2009 ). Eppel won 4,214 medals from 1962 to 1990 and thus 15 years held the title in the Guinness Book of World Records.