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Die Eckbauer Challenge
From 14 July 2021 trail runners will have the opportunity to participate in the Eckbauer Challenge again. Together with meinBerglauf.de and Dynafit the successful event goes into the next round. The aim is to run the route as often as possible until 15 August 2021. There is also something to win. Among all participants three Dynafit products will be raffled. Each participant takes part in the raffle once per run – so if you run the course 20 times within the period, you will also take part in the raffle 20 times. This method increases the chances of winning significantly. It does not matter how fast the track is run. To participate, it is important to install the app meinBerglauf on your mobile phone. In this way the distances can be measured and stored.
Route details:
After the start at the Sport-Quartier holiday resort, you pass the Olympic ski stadium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, cross the car park and reach the junction of a forest path behind the summer toboggan run. Increasingly steeper uphill, leaving the trial area on the left, the route continues until the forest road, after a flat section through meadow terrain, changes back into a tarred roadway, which runs steeply upwards through woods and meadows. On the last few metres, the path becomes flatter again and leads the athletes to the finish station directly before the Eckbauer cable car mountain station.
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There are currently estimated more than 50,000 hobby mountain runners in Bavaria. Norbert Kutschera, living in Murnau, immediately recognized that there is great potential. More and more trail runners and speed hikers met his way on the mountain – always equipped with GPS watches to record time and altitude. It was clear for the hobby athlete that there must be an easier and better way for this. A kind of community was needed!
Together with Robert Gaiswinkler, the 51-year-old developed an automatic time measurement system that not only enables easy time recording but also creates a community for competition and exchange between mountain runners. The whole thing works super easy: An app on the smartphone automatically corresponds with permanently installed start and finish stations on various routes. On the meinBerglauf website you can then look up your rankings and compare yourself with other ambitious mountaineers. In June 2016, the first route on the Kolben was successfully tested. Six further routes on the Laberberg, the Blomberg, the Großglockner and more recently also on the Wank, the Kreuzeck, and the Eckbauer are currently in operation.
Norbert Kutschera at the Großglockner finish station
Garmisch-Partenkirchen start with meinberglauf into the trail running season
Since the end of April 2018, the three meinBerglauf routes at Kreuzeck, Wank, and Eckbauer around Garmisch-Partenkirchen are ready for trail runners. The trail at Kreuzeck starts at the Sentido Zugspitze Berghotel in Hammersbach. With its 4 km it is the shortest, but at the same time the steepest one of the three routes – 850 meters in altitude have to be overcome. The starting station of the Wank trail is located below the climbing forest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. This 6.3 km long trail is the longest route with the most altitude (1000 hm). The last trail goes up to the Eckbauer – 4.3 km and 500 meters in altitude are waiting for you. The track starts directly at the Sport Quartier.
The offer for trail runners and speed hikers in Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been significantly expanded by the meinBerglauf routes – what a great start into the new season! We hope to see you soon on the leaderboard.
If you are still looking for the right trail running shoes or you lack running apparel and running accessories, you can find a large selection in our online shop. Of course, you can also come directly to our store in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, or visit one of our three other stores.
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