Omikron slows down runs in Lübeck and the surrounding area

20 starters had already registered

“We will have to make a fundamental decision,” explains Andreas Block, the chairman of the organizer NTSV Strand 08. Without wanting to anticipate the meeting, the club boss assumes a cancellation: “We are based on the Kieler Hochbrückenlauf, which is a week later has been scheduled and has already been cancelled. An event with around 1,500 participants and around 80 volunteers, some of whom have already canceled, is almost impossible to carry out,” says Block. In the meantime, the online registration was activated for a short time, 20 starters had already registered. At the moment it says “We’re running? on March 20, 2022?” on the homepage. Because of the pier construction site, a new route was specially designed.

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The Timmendorfer are considering moving their event to September. In 2020 they had to cancel the Baltic Sea Run ten days before the start, in 2021 the original date in March was canceled and after the next Corona wave the alternative date in November. Now Omikron slows down the fourth attempt. “After Easter, i.e. from mid-April, it is said that running events can be planned again,” reports Block.

Lübecker Frauenlauf is scheduled to take place on May 6th

The Hamburg Marathon is on April 24th, the next event in the LN region is the 24th Lübeck Women’s Run on May 6th. “We assume that,. that we can start”, says Klaus Ziel from the organizing Lübecker Marathon eV Senator Monika Frank has again taken over the patronage, a free functional shirt is waiting for the first 200 applicants. The organizer has kept a loophole open: If the start is not possible in May due to the pandemic, August 19 will be switched to: “All participants registered for May will then be rebooked for August,” said Ziel.

By Christopher Staffen