Challenge week - Fun and Sun for the 5K Beach Run

Posted: Thursday December 1, 2011

Around 300 runners joined the 5km Beach Run in Puerto del Carmen this morning. The Club La Santa Green Team led a fun warming up session along with some volunteer guests before the race start at 10.00am. Although many participants enjoyed a relaxed run by the sea, you could feel a competitive tension between the top runners.

Bernhard Schacke was one of many returning athletes, having participated in every one of the 23 International Running Challenge events. 74 year old Bernhard loves the Lanzarote climate at this time of the year and is a regular visitor to Club La Santa:
“I always come for one, two or even three weeks, and I always stay at Club La Santa, because I enjoy the running and sport in general. I always come with my wife, who prefers to enjoy the sun… ;-) It’s really good to come to Lanzarote in November/December, because back home in Germany it’s very cold now!

I’ve been here 23 times now, and I’ll keep coming back…I want to keep coming for as many years as I can… I don’t know when that will be, if I’ll be 85 or 90 years old… “
Bernhard was also very proud to have completed the Frankfurt Marathon for the 30th time in a row this year!

Our special congratulations to Bernhard and may he come and race with us for many more editions of the International Running Challenge!

Below are the Top 6 women’s results for today’s race. Overall for races 1,2 and 3 Christina Hedegaard Bruhn is 3rd. It will be a tough race tomorrow as Irish Rachel Morgan, now 4th, and Dutch Hellen De Vries are only a few seconds behind her!

Top 6 women Beach Run
1 102 Lene Hjelmsø 30-34 DEN 00:20:05
2 60 Simone Maissenbacher 35-39 GER 00:20:49
3 177 Annemette Scheel Fischer 35-39 DEN 00:21:04
4 229 Hellen De Vries 30-34 NED 00:22:06
5 115 Rachel Morgan 35-39 IRL 00:22:13
6 2 Christina Hedegaard Bruhn 35-39 DEN 00:22:23

Top 6 women overall after races 1+2+3
1 102 Lene Hjelmsø 30-34 DEN 00:36:15 00:48:00 00:20:05 01:44:19
2 60 Simone Maissenbacher 35-39 GER 00:37:17 00:48:12 00:20:49 01:46:17
3 2 Christina Hedegaard
Bruhn 35-39 DEN 00:38:36 00:56:03 00:22:23 01:57:02
4 115 Rachel Morgan 35-39 IRL 00:41:42 00:53:26 00:22:13 01:57:20
5 229 Hellen De Vries 30-34 NED 00:41:07 00:54:19 00:22:06 01:57:31
6 205 Aoife Joyce 30-34 IRL 00:40:55 00:55:06 00:23:16 01:59:16

In the men’s race, the Danish Søren Helmer, Morten Lundsager and Peter Nielsen will certainly try to gain minutes to the presently leader, Irish Paul Duffy.
So, we do invite all spectators to be at the finish line at the Club La Santa stadium tomorrow to see the outcome of this 23rd edition of the Challenge.

Top 6 men Beach Run
1 248 Søren Helmer 35-39 DEN 00:17:33
2 92 Kyle Greig 25-29 GBR Scotland 00:17:34
3 148 Morten Lundsager 25-29 DEN 00:17:36
4 146 Brian Dåsbjerg 35-39 DEN 00:17:46
5 251 Jonas Brandsbjerg 35-39 DEN 00:17:55
6 250 Peter Nielsen 35-39 DEN 00:17:58
7 1 Paul Duffy 30-34 IRL 00:18:03

Top 6 men overall after races 1+2+3
1 1 Paul Duffy 30-34 IRL 00:33:35 00:43:10 00:18:03 01:34:46
2 248 Søren Helmer 35-39 DEN 00:33:51 00:44:20 00:17:33 01:35:43
3 146 Brian Dåsbjerg 35-39 DEN 00:34:04 00:44:39 00:17:46 01:36:29
4 148 Morten Lundsager 25-29 DEN 00:34:29 00:45:03 00:17:36 01:37:07
5 133 Andreas Groth 40-44 DEN 00:35:00 00:44:35 00:18:18 01:37:52
6 250 Peter Nielsen 35-39 DEN 00:34:59 00:45:12 00:17:58 01:38:08
7 385 Malcolm Fowler 45-49 GBR 00:34:48 00:45:16 00:18:16 01:38:19

For full results Beach run*