Madman gets going again

This time its 5km

Today its 5km for the Montmadman.
No record but some off roading and a gentler pace
26 minutes and 30 seconds is around 11km/h so good if the pace can be maintained over 21km.
That is the big question.

Tomorrow is the first OOB football visit and the first football match for MMMs two girls so watch for a post tomorrow.

Mmm

Time for the Madman

Get Running

Time for the madman to get out again this week!

The Real Slim Grumpy is setting a great pace in training with 4 runs this week to the madman's one.

If like me you can sometimes lack the motivation to get started then see if you can keep up with my attempts.

Let us know how you are doing by posting a comment.

MMM

Better running anywhere else??

A great 11km run this morning through the quiet villages and fields of northern Germany. I'm really not sure if there are many better places to go running first thing in the morning??!! Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first item of 'Offen Old Boys' athletic apparel. In the meantime will attempt to post a video of TMM!!

Registration starts!

Things are 'officially' getting underway with TMM and TRSG now registered for the first 31km of the challenge - the Hannover Nachtlauf (17th Sept) and the Dresden half-marathon (24th Oct).

Animal Training

A break from training - But more tiring

Today the team took a training break and went to Hannover Zoo with the young runners section of the club.

A great day - check it out at

www.zoo-hannover.de

Tomorrow back to training and then watch out as the runs get booked up.

Possible '222 Challenge' runs??

The first official run of the '222 Challenge' will be the Hannover Nachtlauf on the 17th September 2010. Other runs under consideration for the challenge are ... Oct - Dresden half-marathon, Nov - Braunschweig 10km/half-marathon, Dec - Machsee Run 6km, Winsen Aller Silvesterlauf 10km, March - Celle Wasa Lauf 10km, April - Prague half-marathon, Berlin half-marathon, May - Berlin BIG 25, Hannover half-marathon, June - Hamburg half-marathon, Uelzen 10km. Definitely not on the itinerary for this challenge are the Midnight Sun half-marathon (still paying for this year's run!) and the Funf Seen Lauf 15km in Schwerin, unless the temperature is significantly below this year's 35 degrees!! Anyone who knows any other great runs in Northern German or further afield (within economic reason) please leave a comment!

New record time in training

Sub 20minute 4km by Montymadman!!!!!

First training session of the challenge brings new record time of 19min 56 seconds and an average speed of over 12km/h and sub 5minutes per km

The gauntlet is laid down for The Real Slim Grumpy and other challengers

Explanation of the 222 challenge

222 Challenge

The 222 challenge is now confirmed

2oo km in races between September 2010 and July 2011

20 hours in total to complete the challenge

£2,000 is the aim to raise per person for a variety of causes including local schools and the MOD charity 'Help for Heroes'

Fancy joining? email 'Montymadman' at

duncandtara@t-online.de

The training begins!

The first training sesion for TRSG this morning, a 6km jaunt through the woods with Monty - the dog that is, not the 'Monty Madman' - and not a beer in sight!

The Training Begins!

First '222 Challenge' training session held at the 'Rosenhof' last night - all three bottles of Erdinger consumed painlessly and no injuries sustained!! Seriously, now the school holidays have arrived the team will start hitting the streets again to get ready for the first run of the challenge - the Hannover Nachtlauf on the 17th Sept.

New member to team blog - the phenomena grows

New member joins Offen Old Boys blog!!!

Today Mark Whines aka The Real Slim Grumpy has joined the team.

Watch out for his first contribution and maybe the first video upload!!!

More details of the 222 challenge over the weekend.

The 222 challenge

THE 222 CHALLENGE

The official launch of the challenge will be in September but here are a few pointers

• 
  
  200km


• 
  
  20hours


• 
  
  £2k

Interested? Then let me know

Picture above a bit random - just trying it out

A brand new start

Well Hello. Here we have the first entry on the blog for the old boys in offen.

Over the coming months this will be linked mainly to running and the 222 challenge but I am sure that some football will join in along the way.

Montymadman aka Duncan Kirwin