RUNNING GERMANY: BERLIN – 100 historical Miles through and around Berlin on 16th/17th August 2014

The 100MeilenBerlin  event will take place on 16th/17th August 2014 in memory to the numerous Berlin Wall victims and for the third time after 2011 and 2013. To a great extend most of the run will be on the paved Wall Path which leads around West Berlin equivalent to the forma course of the border.

The 100MeilenBerlin is an anual event, in particular at the week-end following the official memorial day for erecting The Wall, 13th August. At that day in the year 1961 the constructions for the border have been commenced by using concrete and steel.

At least 138 people lost their lives by 1989 attempting to escape at the East-West-Border.

Each year 100MeilenBerlin is dedicated to another Wall victim.

This year it is devoted to Peter Fechter who died during his attempt to escape in 1962 at The Wall near well-known Checkpoint Charly and who moved the world with his destiny. He was bleeding to death in the border strip; neither GDR Border Guards nor Western Allieds wanted to or could help him.

The Finisher-Medal will bear the likeness of Peter Fechter in the same way Chris Gueffroy was remembered at the „Mauerweglauf" premiere in 2011 and 2013 was in remembrance of Günter Litfin.  

The 100Meilen-Patron is again former GDR-Civil Rights Activist Rainer Eppelmann. 

Similar to 100Meilen-Premiere in 2011 the Wall Path will be run clockwise. Each year directions change alternately.

For the first time Start and Finish of  100MeilenBerlin will be at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark close by 'Mauerpark'.

 

Here is a brief list of most important information around the 'Mauerweglauf':

 

• Start Times: 6 a.m. Single Runner, 7 a.m. Relay Run
• 27 Catering Points with a total of 300 Volunteers along the Path (every 6 km)
• 13 Online Interim Time Check (timing can be checked online)
• Time Limit: 30 Hours (Single- and Relay Run)
• Relay Run with up to 28 Team Members (changing spot flexible)
• Back-to-Back-Medal for all Finishers that were successfully participating in 2013 and 2014
• 100Meilen-Buckle for running time less than 24 hours
• Finisher-Shirt in Co-operation with "Künstlerinitiative East-Side-Gallery e.V."
• Limit of Participants: 500, Deadline for Registration: 1st July 2014
• Bip Number entitles for Free Ride on Public Transport (BVG/VBB) during the Event
• Pasta-Party (15th August) and Final Dinner (17th August) is included
• Special Rates at partnering Hotel RAMADA for all participants and coaches (limited)
• Free of Charge Dormitory Hall

 

More infos here 

  
 

Greetings from the Patron Rainer Eppelmann

Dear Runners, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am enyoying to see how the Berlin 100-Meilen Run has developed into a success story and is attracting more participants than ever in 2014. 25 years after the fall of The Wall this is an impressive way of remembering the inner German border and its fall in 1989.  

From one day to another the Berlin Wall has divided families, seperated friends and made a normal life in Berlin from then on impossible. Personally I was not able to attend my school anymore from August 1961, others lost their jobs or place at university.  

Above all this monument became a trap for all 17 million people locked-in. Especially for those that were brave or desperate enough to escape from the GDR and then had to pay their attempt with long prison terms, heavy violations or even with leir lives.

This year we want to remember especially to one of the most joyful monumental event in the younger German history: 25 years ago, on 9th November 1989, the majority of the GDR population had enough from inprisonment and dictatur. The citizens opened the borders and put The Wall to fall finally. Today only a few remains of The Wall let us remember this inhuman border that locked-in the whole of West Berlin and turned the total of the GDR into a prison. Therefore it is most important to keep the thoughts around decades of German division the victims of the inner German border alive.

The Berlin 100-Meilen-Run along the former Wall Path is making here a major contribution. I am wishing for 100MeilenBerlin that the event will continue to grow as successfully as in the past years and will attract continiously many exceptional athlets to this historical path.

I am wishing every participating runner a successful run.


Sincerely yours,  
Rainer Eppelmann

 

100Miles BERLIN