Jeremy & Andreas - trainieren in Schönbrunn
Last week Andreas and I had arranged to meet at the “main entry to Schönbrunn”. On the phone however, things get miscommunicated: I was talking about the Underground station Schönbrunn and Andreas was talking about the actual castle gate entrance. After waiting for a while, we both ran separately in the castle grounds… and never crossed paths.
Training #1: Sunday evening, Schönbrunn gardens - temperature cool, slightly overcast, mood: pretty good.
This time we met at the castle gate entry. It is 7 o’clock in the evening and the gardens close officially at 8. One hour sounds like a perfect length of time to train.
I have never run before and actually never really found it to my liking, but this time it seems to be different. For me, the idea of running in the gardens of a 234 year old castle (or is that “just” the Gloriette that is 234 years old?) is a dream. Where I come from, these nice houses just don’t exist.
We used the idea from Peter Dlesk and ran for 10 minutes, then walked for 5. By using this method, we had such a good run that Schönbrunn had closed at 8 and we were still going! Don’t worry though, one can always get out at the front gate.
I had assumed that my legs would be unstable and sore the following morning, but I felt wonderful. Maybe this running thing isn’t so bad after all…
Training #2: Our ladies accompany us to the starting line.
My wife and Andreas’ girlfriend accompanied us to Schönbrunn before we started. We could not convince them to start running too, but it was a nice send-off.
Amazingly we ran again for 1.5 hours. Again Schönbrunn closed before we left. On a weekday, the park is much more quiet and most of the time, the only sound we heard was the crows cawing.
We do not know the distance that we ran, but I will try to find that out on google maps. We plan to measure it - one of these days. Next Monday comes training #3 and I am ready!
