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The Copenhagen Marathon was run on Sunday, and as always there were Faroese runners in the big field that went puffing through the streets of Copenhagen. Sometimes as many as 50 Faroese have taken part, but this time we only know of around 20 so far.
Once again it was the tough man from Vágar, Jens R. Weihe, who produced the strongest Faroese result. Although he is at the older end of the 65–69 age group, he was a full 8 minutes ahead of the runner in second place. Jens’s time was 3:18:49. That made the soon-to-be 69-year-old Jens Weihe number 480 of the 9,400 runners that day. A truly remarkable performance by Jens, who has won his age group at the Copenhagen Marathon several times before. There were no fewer than 65 runners in the men’s 65–69 age group. Next year he will run in the 70+ group, and will then be the big favourite. The winner of that group on Sunday ran just under four hours.
Jens R. Weihe of Frælsi – he must be the Faroe Islands’ toughest athlete. He ran the first half in Copenhagen in 1:33!
Other Faroese runners on Sunday: (if you know of more, just write a comment below the article)
- Jóhan Simonsen 3:21:25
- Herluf Jakobsen 3:22:21
- Annfinn Hálsagarð 3:17:47
- Eydna Olsen 4:09:22
- Jens R. Weihe 3:18:49
- Paul Kragesteen 4:18:42
- Henrik Kølleskov and Beinta Laksafoss around 4:34:49
- Lau Jensen 3:10:42
- Jógvan Jacobsen 3:30:09
- Róar Akralíð 3:50:14
- Elin Joensen 4:40:59
- Sára Jacobsen 4:42:05
- Jógvan Svabo Samuelsen 5:08:41
- Asbjørn Mikkelsen 4:59:03
- Bjørt Simonsen 4:57:25
- Tordis Tróndarson 4:46:28
- Lilly Hansen 3:51:35
- Mogens Fríði Petersen 4:10:04
The Copenhagen Marathon is organised so that everyone can take part, including those who are completely mobility-impaired. The “Team Tvilling” initiative finds runners who can run pushing wheelchairs. Henrik Kølleskov is a pioneer in many areas. He is one of our keenest trail runners, and we also know him from “renn og rusk”, or trail clean-up, where he tidies up nature while getting his running training in.
Henrik Kølleskov pushed Beinta’s chair the whole 42 kilometres. Now he intends for Tórshavn Marathon to offer this “service” as well
He has now become the first Faroese to run with Team Tvilling. And as luck would have it, because of a cancellation he ended up pushing a fellow Faroese, Beinta Laksafoss. As the pictures show, this is a truly life-affirming initiative, and it would be fun, and no less lovely, if this could be taken up at Tórshavn Marathon. And so the ball is passed on…..
One of the most life-affirming pictures you can imagine. This trip has bonded the two of them for life
Another of our keenest trail runners was also in action this weekend. Sofus Poulsen of Frælsi is afraid neither of challenging terrain nor of dizzying distances.
Sofus Poulsen – yet another Frælsi man in action this weekend
On Saturday Sofus was in Norway, where he had entered the Oslo Ecotrail. A hard and demanding 80-kilometre run. Sofus has proved before that he can handle these really long distances, for example when he ran “Fyr til Fyr” on Bornholm last year.
This time, too, everything went smoothly. Sofus finished in good shape after running his longest distance so far. So the only question is: what will be next? Because people like this always want another new, and preferably even more demanding, challenge.
Heavy, technically demanding running, but an incredibly beautiful experience in nature.
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