Fun run

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Participant in the fun run in Bergen-Enkheim (Frankfurt am Main), 2007
Participant in the Münchner-Kindl-Lauf 2009 shortly after the start
Banana peels as part of the legacy of a fun run

A fun run (also Citylauf ) is a Running -Veranstaltung of grassroots sport .

Fun races are usually held over distances of 5 km to the marathon distance (42.195 km). The course of a fun run can run on streets, park and walking paths or forest paths or on a combination of these floor coverings.

In contrast to pure "fun runs", the running times of the participants are determined in fun runs and lists of results are created with placements. Certificates and medals are often issued for achieving the goal. Nevertheless, the focus is mostly on running fun, the joy of personal performance by mastering a route and the popularization of running.

meaning

In 2008 over two million people took part in 3682 fun runs in Germany.

The popular running movement has received an almost constant increase up to now, reinforced by the general fitness wave. H. since 1964 there has been an almost uninterrupted increase in both the number of fun runs offered and the number of participants.

Due to the climate, most of the fun runs take place in spring and autumn. The range of fun runs extends over the whole year, and there is also a wide range of running events in winter with winter running series and New Year's runs.

Differentiation from road running

A fun run differs from a street run (in the sense of its formal definition by athletics associations) in that the prerequisites for participation are less rigid and it is distinguished by less regulation of the route, implementation and services provided. A club membership and the possession of a starting pass issued by the association are not required. Often the routes are not measured according to the guidelines of the athletics associations, which would be one of the prerequisites for the times achieved to be included in their leaderboards . A fun run is in contrast to competitive sports oriented road running a wide sporting event.

The boundaries are fluid, however, as many and especially the very high-participant events are held as a “combined street and fun run”. In her empirical analysis of the participants in the Hamburg Marathon, Susanne Kreitz analyzed the different types of participants and showed that although there are certain overlaps, the popular runners represent a well-defined population. Such events meet the stricter criteria of a road run when it comes to route measurement, allow both non-tied and club runners as participants, but only take into account holders of an association start pass for leaderboards and possibly integrated championship evaluations.

Timing

In runs with many participants, the traditional form of timing with a stopwatch triggered at the starting gun - or its electronic equivalent - is not fair, as not all starters can cross the start line at the same time. At events with several hundred starters, it can take a few minutes for the last runners to cross the start line. That is why transponders are usually used that are attached to the shoe, so-called running chips , or are integrated into the start number. Appropriate receivers are then installed at the start and finish lines. The transponder triggers the time measurement when the start line is crossed and registers the actual running time of the respective athlete from crossing the start line to crossing the finish line (so-called "net time").

In races with a very large number of participants, the starters are also sorted according to their previous mileage before the start, so that the favorites are in the first rows at the start. This means that the overall winner is usually the first to cross the finish line and there is no need to wait for the award ceremonies until all runners have reached the finish and their actual time has been calculated.

history

With the spread of endurance training according to Ernst van Aaken and Arthur Lydiard , long-distance training in Germany was no longer just as interval training on the demarcated sports field, but increasingly in public on the street and in parks. This aroused wide public interest. The first public run of the Federal Republic took place on October 13, 1963 in Bobingen near Augsburg. 1654 participants from all age groups ran or marched in the Augsburg - Western Forests nature park on hilly stretches between 800 meters and twelve kilometers. The initiators Otto Hosse , who has already passed away, and Herwig Leiter , then 22 years old, are considered pioneers of the running movement. The two athletes had seen so-called military runs in Switzerland, which were supposed to promote the condition of the federal men for the purpose of national defense. Hosse and Leiter modified this concept and turned it into an athletics event for the whole family. Even then, the organizers from Bobingen had the aspect of health care in mind, because at the beginning of the sixties the media reported for the first time about a possible connection between lack of exercise and certain illnesses. Fun runs based on the Bobinger model were held in more and more places in Germany from the spring of 1964 with the active support of Otto Hosse and Herwig Leiter.

Popular run events with the largest number of participants in Germany

Most popular races in 2018 in Germany
rank event Finisher Change previous year
1 Berlin marathon 45,425 + 3.8%
2 Berlin half marathon 26,227 −2.5%
3 Team Challenge Dresden 21,321 + 12.9%
4th Cologne marathon 17,613 + 4.4%
5 B2Run Cologne 16,165 −6.1%
6th Hanover marathon 16,110 + 11.1%
7th B2Run Munich 15,668 −43.7%
8th Munich marathon 14,886 + 5.4%
9 Münz company run Koblenz 14,598 + 14.2%
10 Company run Leipzig 14,415 + 6.0%
11 Berlin company run 14,403 +1.4%
12 Hamburg marathon 14,267 + 2.2%
13 B2Run Nuremberg 14,249 + 25.0%
14th GutsMuths Rennsteig run 12,955 −1.0%
15th Frankfurt marathon 12,310 −4.4%
16 Einstein Marathon Ulm 11,926 + 11.6%
17th Sports check RUN Munich 10,601 −3.2%
18th B2Run Berlin 10,585 + 6.5%
19th Essen company run 10.301 + 34.2%
20th Stuttgart run 10,109 + 7.3%

New Years Eve runs

Germany

New Year's Eve runs represent a special tradition. There are almost 100 New Year's Eve runs in Germany. a .:

Austria

Switzerland

Other countries

The world's most famous New Year's Eve run is the Corrida Internacional de São Silvestre in São Paulo , Brazil, which has been taking place since 1925.

The largest New Year's Eve run in Europe is the San Silvestre Vallecana in Madrid , Spain with almost 18,000 participants. Other well-known New Year's Eve runs in Europe are the Cursa dels Nassos in Barcelona with around 8000 participants and the BOclassic in Bolzano , Italy.

Others

The most famous German popular runner was probably Paul Eppel (1918–2009) from Ludwigshafen. Eppel won 4,214 medals from 1962 to 1990 and thus held the title in the Guinness Book of Records for 15 years .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed fun run statistics 2008 of the DLV ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leichtathletik.de
  2. ↑ Public run statistics 1964–2009 of the DLV ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leichtathletik.de
  3. ↑ Kreitz, Susanne: Marathon in the course of life - an empirical study. Berlin: Tischler 1996, ISBN 3-922654-40-1 .
  4. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.
  5. ↑ 40 years of fun run in Germany ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. DLV press release from October 9, 2003. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leichtathletik.de
  6. ^ Leichtathletik.de for Herwig Leiter's 65th birthday
  7. ↑ Statistics. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 56-year-old reanimated at the New Year's Eve run orf.at, December 31, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017.