24-hour run in Rodgau
The 24-hour run is a since 1972 in Rodgau conducted athletics event with the aim of the highest possible amount of donation in favor of disabled fellow man or other charitable tasks einzuspielen.
history
Sports enthusiasts from the parish of St. Ludwig in Darmstadt and their pastor Wendelin Meissner, impressed by the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, had the idea of encouraging people to donate to social projects in the parish through an extraordinary sporting performance. The parish announced the first 24-hour run. Registered teams, then three in number, sent their runners alternately for 24 hours on a 400 meter long circuit in a green area in the center of Darmstadt, where a shopping center ( Luisencenter ) is now located. For every lap completed by a runner or for the interim or overall performance of a team, spectators, sponsors and parishioners donated an obolus for the charitable purpose.
The organizers' motto: We want your best - your money. But we don't want it for free. Reward our performance with a donation so that we can do good with it , helped the first 24-hour run to be a success. Nevertheless, this action remained a one-time event for the time being.
Pastor Meissner got a pastor's position in the Rodgau district of Jügesheim in 1973 . When, in 1980, on the initiative of young people and young adults to organize joint free time for disabled and non-disabled children and young people, the association “ Together with Behinderten Rodgau e. V. ”, the then club chairman, Regina Kriebel, took up the idea of the 24-hour run and put it into practice.
On August 29, 1981, the starting shot of the first Rodgau 24-hour run, in which 16 teams took part, began the almost unbelievable success story of the annual event.
procedure
regulate
The Rodgau 24-hour run begins on the first or second Saturday in September at 12 noon and ends exactly after 24 hours on the following Sunday. Any number of teams with a minimum of five and a maximum of ten participants can register. There can only ever be one runner from each team on the 400-meter-long running track. The teams decide for themselves how many laps their runner does before he is replaced by another team member. A simple procedure (chip in the baton, early chip insertion) is used to count the laps that a team completes within the specified 24 hours. Wheelchair users can also take part in the runs. Individual runners without a team membership are also allowed.
donate
The number of rounds already run is always an indicator of the willingness of the public and sponsors to donate. It is popular to favor a team and give away 10 € cents per lap. Others (mostly sponsors) offer a fixed, higher amount if a specified number of laps or donations is reached or exceeded at a certain time. The names of the donors are always announced by loudspeaker announcement, unless they want to remain anonymous.
target
Through the interaction of the athletic ambition of the runners and teams on the one hand and the enthusiasm of the public on the other hand, the goal of raising the highest possible donation amount is achieved. Spectators and active people alike contribute to the success and thus to the realization of the association's goals, such as the construction of the residential complex for the disabled in the center of Jügesheim, which was inaugurated in 2004.
Donations
Examples of the success of the 24-hour run are the number of participating teams and the proceeds from donations since 2002 in Rodgau:
- 2002: 40 teams, generated proceeds of € 101,888.19
- 2003: 43 teams, generated proceeds of € 82,709.22
- 2004: 39 teams, generated proceeds of € 83,125.33
- 2005: 41 teams, generated proceeds of € 77,170.97
- 2006: 40 teams, generated proceeds of € 81,000.00
- 2007: 42 teams, generated proceeds of € 101,500.00
- 2008: 38 teams, generated proceeds of € 102,588.00
- 2009: 37 teams, generated proceeds of € 106,113.21
- 2010: 31 teams, generated proceeds of € 101,700.00
- 2011: 46 teams, generated proceeds of € 130,500.00
- 2012: 44 teams, generated proceeds € 180,229.00
- 2013: 31 teams, generated proceeds of € 115,000.00
- 2014: 41 teams, generated revenue of € 141,847.27
- 2015: 38 teams, generated proceeds of € 128,662.00
Spread the idea
In the meantime, others have taken up the idea of the Rodgau 24-hour run and successfully implemented it. The association “Together with Disabled People Rodgau e. V. “has helped with the planning and implementation in several cases, for example in Hochheim am Main .
There have been other 24-hour runs in Germany for some years now, for example in Alzey , Bad Driburg , Bernau near Berlin , Delmenhorst , Geisenfeld , Karlsruhe , Kyritz , Minden , Mühltal -Traisa, Norderstedt , Reichenbach / V. , Remscheid-Lüttringhausen , Schwetzingen , Stadtoldendorf , Uhingen and on the Brocken and in Switzerland in Basel , in Austria in Wörschach and on the Klopeiner See , in the Netherlands in Apeldoorn , in Greece in Loutraki and in France in Mulhouse .
Since 1988, the 24-hour German championships have been held at different locations in northern Germany . However, they do not primarily serve charitable purposes; the focus is on athletic performance. These championships are assigned to the ultra-marathon area .