Erding's ball athletes and the condition thing
Created: 09/24/2022, 07:09
By: Dieter Priglmeir
Dieter Priglmeir © private
The whole of Erding will be running through the city center again on Sunday in the city run.
Whole Erding?
Well, at least a lot of committed amateur athletes are at the city run
, but maybe also people who have lost a bet or children whose parents simply registered them.
Every year it's a pleasure to see the colorful mix whizzing across the Langezeile - or dragging itself across it.
I'm particularly happy
when I see football, handball or volleyball players again.
Because this species doesn't like to move without a ball, which is why my inquiries about the "running miracles" in the teams initially went unanswered.
Unless you define the term "running miracle" like coach Sebastian Held.
For him, striker Florian Rupprecht is a running prodigy, “because he knows exactly when to run: namely when he can score a goal”.
But maybe
what Tobi Schneider from Rot-Weiß Klettham says is true.
He took part in the Xletix steeplechase race together with Oliver Kurowski and David Stotz.
"And that requires everything that an amateur footballer doesn't have: fitness and arm strength." He may be right about that, but the trio persevered, finished and came up with the idea of "doing the whole thing as a team event organize, because you can only overcome the obstacles together".
But back to the individualists,
because we definitely have them: real long-distance runners.
Mathias Köppen from FC Erding, for example, demolished 2027 kilometers last year.
He does not take part in competitions.
“Fatih Budakoglu is then responsible for that.
He also wants to run on Sundays and always takes his son with him at the end.
That's particularly nice," says FCE spokesman Max Malterer.
Franco Soave doesn't take anyone
with him on his last few kilometers, and nobody would keep up with him.
At the City2run in Olympiadorf, the player coach of FC Lengdorf, as an over 30 athlete, ran the six kilometers twice in just under 21 minutes, came second once and fourth once.
FC Schwaig's record man
is Fred Stuber - because he has played the most games, but no longer as a miracle of fitness.
Thorsten Plessow really outstripped him there.
The man came from the new federal states, and his nickname was probably not only chosen because of a club name: Dynamo.
Nicknames are also on the running shirts
of the referees Rico "Ritscho" Spyra and Julian "Schaubinho" Schaub, who are taking part in the city run again after six years with Tamara Zierer, Manu Müller and Benny "Benny" Lehnert (Gerhard "GeFerlisch" Ferlisch had to cancel at short notice for work-related reasons ).
funny idea
Let's see how many runners will read the names, because they are on the back of the shirt.
However, according to the referees, the goal is more "to provide one of the three teams with the strongest runs so that we can win a beer prize".
Getting as far behind as possible
was the goal of two Moosen footballers in the 1990s, which Arno Schuster remembers: “Back then, five laps of warm-up was the order of the day.
We had two players with us who ended up doing sprint training.” One didn't begrudge the other the fact that he ran away from the front.
Schuster: “After two laps, the two already had a lead of more than half a lap.
In the last two laps they sprinted like crazy.” The rest of the group was lapped twice.
Schuster: “Michael Johnson, 400-meter world champion, would have been delighted.
And our coach was speechless.”
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We go back a few years
with Rico Pätz, today a volleyball oldie at TuS Oberding.
And that was already his sport when he did his military service with the NVA in the GDR between 1987 and 1989.
Tuesday and Thursday was training.
The reason why the team also founded a running group: “You received a membership card for every sporting activity, which you can use to leave the army grounds without an official exit.
Most of the time we went for a run.
Now and then you could just visit someone you wanted to visit.”
But he will never forget the Berlin peace runs
with over 50,000 participants.
“Most of the time we slept in my garden the night before.
And everyone who was still able – because the special leave they were given had to be celebrated for – ran the next day.” You shouldn’t underestimate that, because that wasn’t the three kilometers (like the daily morning military exercise), but 20 kilometers.
Rico Pätz didn't need 90 minutes for this distance - that means: The man was in top shape at the time.
And afterwards he raves about "the moment when a convoy of 50,000 people starts moving on the eight-lane road and when you walk under a water fountain on the Alex or Unter den Linden".
Well,
we don't have water fountains in Erding.
But many waves of enthusiasm that will carry everyone back on Sunday.
Good luck to all runners and spectators.