Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
Reykjavík’s big Culture Night is taking place this evening and tonight, and it is also the big day of running over there. The Reykjavík Marathon draws some 7,000 runners, who besides the marathon also run the half marathon, 10 km and a fun run. In recent years Faroese runners have been good at competing in Reykjavík, and this year was no exception.
The Faroese marathon champion of the last two years was up for the challenge and ran in Reykjavík for the first time. And although his year of birth is 1965, Cecil Weihe today managed to run his second-best marathon time ever. With a time of 2:46:59, Cecil ran his way all the way up to 9th place out of the 888 who completed the full marathon course.
This is the last year Cecil competes in the 40-49 age group, and it was celebrated with a third place. Next year it will be the 50-59 age group, and on today’s results, Cecil would win the group by a full 10 minutes ahead of the runner-up!
Cecil and Jóhan take a mirror selfie just before the day’s tough 42 km.
Jannick Hjaltalin also ran well in Reykjavík today. With a time of 3:06:23 he finished in 35th place. Jóhan E. Simonsen was unhappy with his race. He finished 124th with a time of 3:27:47. The other two Faroese runners we have found are Árni Lisberg (3:29:24) and Anja Perdomo, who ran her first marathon and was very pleased with her result of 4:10:40.
As mentioned, it is Culture Night in Reykjavík, and our leading figures have also pulled themselves together and spread their wings. While the Prime Minister today kept goal for HB in 1. deild (a clean sheet), the Minister of Culture, Bjørn Kalsø, ran the half marathon in Reykjavík (1:49:13). Our envoy in Reykjavík also ran this distance. Hákun J. Djurhuus crossed the finish line in 2:10:22. Two Faroese women also ran the half marathon. Heriet Djurhuus had a time of 2:16:17 and Óluva Zachariassen 2:36:29. A full 2,177 completed the half marathon course. The most popular distance, however, is the 10 kilometres. Here over 6,000 crossed the finish line. Among them were the Mayor of Tórshavn, Heðin Mortensen, and the head of the culture department at Tórshavn Municipality, Jákup Simonsen.
