At least the squad athletes are allowed to compete - of course under strict corona conditions.
A trio from TSV Penzberg was recently in action, and Johannes Trefz from Weilheim also played.
However, the runners' record was mixed.
Karlsruhe:
He finished third in a strong field and improved his previous personal best by four seconds. So everything's fine for Nick Jäger? Not really. The 3000 meter obstacle race at the “5. Long running night in Karlsruhe ”had a catch for the 21-year-old from TSV Penzberg despite everything. And this hook was "34 hundredths big", as he said with a pained smile. Jäger missed the few fractions of a second to qualify for the U23 European Championship (July 8th to 11th in Bergen / Norway).
For the Penzberger this was "very annoying".
The hunt for the norm (8: 48.00) "I would like to have behind me".
Jäger still has various options for creating or undercutting the required time.
The last chance would be the German championship for U23 athletes in Koblenz at the end of June.
Despite everything, the biology student rated the performance in Karlsruhe positively: “I know that I can do it.
I just have to show it. "
Nick Jäger is 34 hundredths missing from the EM norm
In the busy race, Brian Weisheit (LSC Höchstadt) took the lead and set the pace. After 2:56 minutes he passed the 1000 meter mark. Now Niklas Buchholz (LSC Höchstadt) took over the helm. Jäger always ran the slipstream of his training mates and tried to save strength in the top group of five athletes. On the second kilometer, Buchholz pulled away from the rest of the field, reaching the 2000 meter mark after 5:50 minutes. At this point, Jäger's distance to the leader was 15 meters. While Buchholz fought alone against the sometimes very gusty wind at the front, the chasing group continued to run.
At the beginning of the last lap, Nick Jäger fought his way up to third place.
After the last moat, the group started the final sprint, whereas Buchholz slowed down a little.
Nevertheless, the 22-year-old won with 8: 45.00 minutes ahead of Brian Weisheit (8: 47.74) and Jäger (8: 48.34), who clearly undercut his two-year-old best time.
Regarding the norm, the Penzberger said: “I very seldom looked at the clock during the race.
But with 200 meters to go I saw that it was going to be very close. "
Jäger wants to contest his next obstacle race in Oordegem, Belgium (May 29).
He has fond memories of his career there.
In May 2019, the Penzberger ran the 3000 meter obstacle in a personal best (then 8: 55.79).
Munich:
Luk Jäger and Andreas Kölbl were not satisfied with their performance in the squad competition in Munich's Dante Stadium.
Both missed their personal goals, as it says on the TSV Penzberg homepage.
With 50.42 seconds, Kölbl stayed relatively well above the targeted 49er time on the 400-meter course.
“Somehow I lacked the power from the starting block.
It wasn't until after 200 meters that I started to run, ”said the 27-year-old.
The reason for this was that he had significantly less time to warm up than usual. “We were stuck in a traffic jam for day-trippers on the A95,” reported Kölbl.
So he only arrived at the Dante Stadium 40 minutes before the start.
Penzberg athletes are stuck in traffic jams
Luk Jäger had aimed for the DM standard (15:45 minutes) over the 5000 meters, but ultimately only came up with a time of 16: 15.75 minutes. The 18-year-old was unable to train for three weeks due to a shin injury. "I would not have thought that the form had suffered so much," said the college student.
Luk was still on target for the first three kilometers and had passed this mark after 9:27 minutes.
"After 3500 meters, Luk had to let the field go and got slower and slower", reported trainer and mother Melanie Jäger.
There is still enough time for the German youth championship (July 30th to August 1st in Rostock) to get into the form he was in a few weeks ago.
In mid-March Luk Jäger ran the best time of 10 kilometers at the City Run in Dresden and covered the second half of the race in 15:54 minutes.
Mannheim:
Johannes Trefz from Weilheim wanted to recommend himself at the “Road to Tokyo” meeting in Mannheim for a job at the European Team Championships in Poland (29/30 May). But the athlete from TSV Graefelfing did not succeed. Over the 400 meters, Trefz managed only the sixth fastest time with 47.13 seconds in adverse external conditions (rain, low temperatures). He was promptly not nominated for the German 4 x 400 meter relay that starts in Chorzów. Trefz was self-critical after the performance in the Electoral Palatinate: “I put too much pressure on myself, it ate up and tensed me up. That was just nothing today. ”The 28-year-old is now looking towards the German athletics championship at the beginning of June. There he now wants to try to achieve the best possible performance over the 400 meters.The best time of the three-time German champions over the stadium lap is 45.70 seconds.
Before the appearance in Mannheim, Trefz had started for training purposes in the squad competition in Munich's Dante Stadium over the 200 meters. With his 21.77 seconds (2nd place) he was "reasonably satisfied, although he was aiming for a time of 21.5", said TSV Graefelfing in a press release.