Haarathon - half-marathon and 10km

The Haarathon will be taking place on September 30, 2006 starting at 10:00. There is a 10K, Halfmarathon, a 3K, and a 6K for Nordic Walkers.

For others planning to run the Munich Marathon in a few weeks, either the 10K or Halfmarathon might be a good tune-up race (but don't overdo it...this is just the weekend before the marathon). Starting fees for the 10K and Half benefit the psychiatric hospital in Haar, but the 3K and Nordic Walking races are free.

Here's the site with a linky for signing up (although can sign up that day up to 30 minutes before races start):

http://www.krankenhaus-haar.de/index.html?...0_Haarathon.asp

I haven't try any 10K run before. Therefore, i would like to ask if somebody knows a Running-Track in München. The idea behind is to measure how fast and far can i do it before going for the real-run.

Thanks in advance,
Adolfo (from Laim)

There's one just behind the olympic stadium. I've seen people using that from time to time.

Tracks can be pretty boring, though.
I think it's more interesting to use the "ruler/path" function on Google Earth to pre-plan a route with whatever distance you like. That way you can run in your own neighborhood or place your runs in areas with knee-friendly ground, like dirt paths.

Thanks for your answers. I used the Gmaps pedometer and it is great.
By the way, i checked the price for the 10Km this 8.10.2006 and it costs 35Euros.

cheers!
Adolfo

Did anyone run this? How'd they do?
This past weekend was also the Chicago Marathon and half.

I did the Haarathon (21 K), very nice small run (144 participants in the half-marathon with 29 women, 115 participants for the 10 K). track was ok (round the BUGA). Seems that the track was not measured correctly, estimates were that it was only 20-20.5 km long, so you shouldn't be too proud if you time was better than usual (nevertheless I was very happy with my time, placed 7th of the women)
It was a charity run for the psychiatry, well organised despite the lacking km, cheaper than the commercial runs (including a shirt for almost everyone), time measurement "old fashioned" (no champion-chip). At the price giving ceremony you could win tickets for Allianz Arena and other stuff, and get a huge portion of pasta for 2 Euro.
I wouldn't recommend this run as a first Halfmarathon, cause as there are few participants, you are likely to run more or less alone on the track, and there aren't many spectators.

Anyone doing the Munich Marathon this Sunday?

Yes I'm hoping to.