“Coco” Harrer turns to the marathon in Münster

In an interview, she did not rule out building on this success and running again at one of the major German marathon events. Now she is registered for the Volksbank-Münster-Marathon on Sunday. Perhaps she will be able to achieve her goal of completing a time of less than 2:40 hours – she is currently the fastest pre-registered German woman registered for the race.

With 9,811 registrations, there is a new participant record at the Volksbank-Münster-Marathon in the 21st year of its history. “We’re approaching the magical 10,000 mark,” says the organising team at their last meeting before the big event at the weekend. “We haven’t had over 2,200 marathon registrations since 2016,” according to the press release from the marathon office, where the telephone lines are glowing red hot.

Tilbeck Abbey is holding a completely different kind of competition during the Atruvia relay marathon next Sunday. Four managers of the Tilbeck Abbey – a Catholic institution where people with disabilities live and work in workshops, a garden center and an in-house café – want to run a relay together and stand up against four other relay teams from their institution. For every team that beats the bosses, a donation will be made to the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation, the abbey says. With this campaign, the Atruvia relay marathon gets an even sportier touch with a lot of motivation and ambition for the company.

By now it can no longer be ruled out that late registrations, which can still be made on Friday and Saturday, will break the 10,000 mark. The current 9,840 registrations are already a record number of participants for the Volksbank-Münster-Marathon. A public press conference will start next Friday at 11 a.m. in the “Angel Room” of the elite Atlantic Hotel in Münster. Here, the elite runners introduce themselves with their ambitions, but also interesting guests about the marathon. In addition to the latest news, autograph requests are of course also gladly fulfilled.