Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
There has been plenty of running on the programme this weekend. The big women’s run was on Saturday, when Bjørk H. Olsen was also in Finland competing with the Danish/Icelandic national team. On Sunday Borgar Biskobstø took part in the Reykjavík Marathon.
No fewer than 1070 women were registered for the big women’s run, which took place in fine weather on Saturday. Only the tunnel runs and one public health run have drawn bigger crowds. And there was a veritable sea of people at Tórsbreyt, where a joint warm-up was on the programme before the starting gun went. First across the line was former national team runner Sunniva Bjarnastein, Bragdið, who showed that she still has it in her. Her time was 22:54 min. No. 2 was Lone Høeg Bejer from Klaksvík, who outsprinted Ann Thomsen from Bragdið. Their times were 24:01 and 24:05 min respectively.
All the results as well as photos can be found at www.bragdid.fo
On Saturday Bjørk Herup Olsen was due to run the 3000 m in a Nordic competition for youth national teams. Four teams are taking part in the competition: Sweden, Finland, Norway and a combined Danish-Icelandic team, which Bjørk represents on behalf of her club in Denmark, KIF. Each team has two representatives in every event, but for the Danish/Icelandic team only Bjørk took part. So there were seven girls who started this 3000 metres race. The other six all had better entry times than Bjørk.
And the pace over the first 1000 metres was also a little on the high side for Bjørk, who nevertheless chose to go with it. Over the next 1000 metres the pace dropped somewhat, and Bjørk now had no trouble keeping up. But with 700 metres to go the field exploded and everyone put their foot down. In this long sprint Bjørk managed to put both the Finnish girls behind her. But in the last half metre one of them managed to sneak past her again by 9/100 sec. Even so, Bjørk ran so well that she improved her old Faroese record by two seconds, so the new record is now 10:13.68.
On Sunday the Reykjavík Marathon was run, and on the start line stood the 2007 Faroese marathon champion, 47-year-old Borgar Biskopstø from Treysti. And it went well. Of the 561 in total who finished, Borgar came 9th with a time of 2:52:38. It is worth noting that only one Icelander finished ahead of Borgar, who also came second in his age group, two minutes behind a Frenchman.
