For all of you who are new to this blog, I participated in a charity run last Thursday called “Secretary Run”. It was a 5 km Funrun, starting at Stafflenbergstrasse and leading around Uhlandshöhe.

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It was quite a small event, I think we were around 35 runners. But it was a very relaxed atmosphere and everybody was in a good mood.

We were extremely lucky with the weather. Thursday was a rather cold and rainy day in Stuttgart. But the rain stopped five minutes before we started our run and at the end, even the setting sun came out to cheer us up on our last kilometer.

Here are some impressions from the track:

From Stafflenbergstrasse, you have a lovely view over Stuttgart. I wouldn’t mind living there..

The track led through very nice residential areas. I haven’t been in this part of Stuttgart very often in the past so the run included a bit of sightseeing as well.

As I said, it was a very small event so they haven’t blocked the streets, only put up these signs…

Here we come…

And that’s the view we got rewarded with on the finish line… nice, hum?!

I really enjoyed participating in the Secretary Run and I will definitely be in next year, too. I only hope they manage to motivate some more runners and thus raise more money for Brustkrebs Deutschland, that would be nice.

More information about:

Secretary Run (only in German)

Brustkrebs Deutschland e.V. (only in German)

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This is a beautiful track where you run in the shade of old trees and pass some
little streams and ponds.

That’s what running at Schlossgarten looks like. Beautiful, hum?

And in order to convince you that I was not only promenading but truly running, here some blurry pictures from the track! 🙂

Now, I’m ready for the run! If you want to support me and the breast cancer association, you have two options:

1.) Participate in the run! You can sign up until the 11th of September! Here’s the link to the registration form (which is available only in German unfortunately 🙁  ) http://www.secretary-plus.de/upload/files/secretary_run_anmeldeformular.pdf

2.) You can help me raise money. Simply check out my fund raising page (which is, again, only in German… but you will get through, I am sure! 🙂 ), decide which amount you would like to contribute and fill out the form.

http://www.secretary-plus.de/secretary-run/62.htm?mel-runs-to-fight-cancer

Thank you for your support guys and see you on the track!!  :-*

More information about:

Secretary Run 2013 (only in German)

Brustkrebs Deutschland e.V. (only in German)

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