1. Rheinsteig Erlebnislauf, 7-14 april 2006
Report By Bram van der Bijl
Translated by Mark Hoogakker
  Running for charity is hot at the moment. From 5 till 9 December 2005 Hermy Heymann ran to raise money for the people in Pakistan. (http://www.ultraned.org/n_item/f3181.php) He ran about 340 kilometers in 5 days. Friday the 14th of April Els Annegarn announced that she will try to raise money for the Dutch Leukaemia Foundation. http://www.lopenvoorleukemie.nl). Although I usually won’t turn a deaf ear to somebody trying to raise money, I am not really the good Samaritan nor the Florence Nightingale of Halfweg. Others, in general, are much more active than I am. For example the German couple Mahlburg from Baden-Baden. Their organisation ‘Laufenhelfen.de’ (http://www.laufendhelfen.de) tries to raise money for charity through organising running events. ‘Aktion Benni & Co. e.V.’ (http://www.abc-online.org) is one of the foundations they try to support. It does research to try to find a cure for the, until now, incurable muscle-disease of Duchenne. This is a rather rare disease and therefore, hard as it may sound, not really interesting for the pharmaceutical industry. In the beginning of this year the idea of the Rheinsteig Erlebnislauf came up. The Rheinsteig (http://www.rheinsteig.de) is a 320 kilometer long hiking trail between Bonn and Wiesbaden, which was completed in the Fall of 2005. The idea was to run this trail as a group in 8 days and between the 7th and 14th of April 2006 the first edition of this run took place. Since I like these kind of events I also joined and thus contributed to the good cause as well. (more…)