Two hours, thirteen minutes, forty-two seconds - a new personal best for Martin Beckmann. The marathon runners of LG Leinfelden-Echterdingen was the beginning of May in Dusseldorf second best German. And that was also clear that the major goal Musberg be practically achieved, namely that he is at one and a half month in the beginning athletics championships in Berlin would start. "I'm already last autumn in Frankfurt, the standard run. Since I was already relatively safe," says Beckmann. Meanwhile, it runs for the countdown. The peak season is also one of his career highlights is imminent. 15 weeks in training camp put Beckmann bone - an intensive preparation for a discipline that he only twice a year graduated from the famous 42.195 kilometers of the marathon. First Spain and Kenya, then twice St. Moritz: so were the stations of the construction phase in the past few months. Ten pairs of shoes he has worn it for one week performance of around 250 kilometers. "So were my Vorwettkämpfe also rather bad," says Beckmann and probably thinks especially of the German Championships Half Marathon in April in Aichbach. His conclusion in retrospect: "In the drain. I was too tired." In his sobering 66:45 minutes remained the stopwatch at the stand.
One reason for the intermediate difficulty was perhaps the change in the running group of ex-Olympic champion Waldemar Cierpinski, alongside Beckmann also Tobias Sauter and his son cared Falk. "For me, there was much new," says Beckmann, who to date, according to the plans of his home trainer Heidrun cousin had acted. The 32-year-old had to settle and only convert. But his confidence in the new training group worthwhile.
Martin Beckmann, now sits on the terrace of his house in Musberg, the final altitude training camp behind him - and thinks only in Berlin, at 22 August, that day, of course please be better than his appearance at the world championships two years ago in Osaka, Japan. "We came from the preparation of an island, on the temperate climate prevailed, the heart of the city with a deadly 80 percent humidity," recalls Beckmann. At km 30, he had to abandon invalidated.
In Berlin, the conditions should be better now, although not optimal. The start time of 11:45 clock Beckmann finds "not so good." "So late in the day starts you do not normally have. Since I did not know how I do it with the breakfast and the last food intake before the race doing," he says. But on the track itself is looking forward to the Leinfelden-Echterdingen long. Start and finish are located on the central boulevard of Berlin, Unter den Linden. "Because we run four rounds through the capital, and I think the audience will be rocking track," estimates Beckmann. "Since it is rather dangerous, that the race is concerned übermotiviert. But this is certainly a crazy experience."
His race shoes Beckmann has been elected, and the tactic is already clear. "We will assist us in the wind with the alternate leadership. We also know through the joint training that we can leave each other," says Beckmann, with the aforementioned Cierpinski Falk and Tobias Sauter (both SG Spergau) and André Pollmächer (LAC Chemnitz) and Stefan Koch (LG Braunschweig), the German contingent makes marathon.
Until about 35 km, the interplay among work colleagues. "Then, the friendship ended. Since then everyone thinks only of himself and his time," says Martin Beckmann. What he still can not think, is the placement. There were so many factors to be properly adjusted to a marathon with a top place finish or even win. Since one can not simply a prediction. Only these: give up, as in Osaka, wants Martin Beckmann again. As I said Berlin should be a career highlight.
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