Denmark
East to West:
Here are my daily results from
my run across Denmark. The route is chosen along railways or bus lines
so I could park my car at a railway station, take the train or bus
10-30 miles one way and then run back. The stretches are not in chronological
order as I tried to always run near a location where I was doing a
lecture. I didn't want my run to cause adverse effects on the environment
through excessive driving. My record is truly historic since nobody
has ever been able to it before the bridge to Sweden opened - and
nobody will ever be able to do it again since the bridge is now closed
for runners.
Map
of the 800 miles Diary
of my running (in Danish)
Notice:
on some routes I ended up running 26 miles a day or 40 miles in one
night!
In
a futile protest against the environmental damage I cause as a traveling
lecturer with a car (to carry my heavy equipment) - especially the effect
on the future of poor countries from global warming - I try to convince
myself and others that there must be an alternative to the car. Tired of
racing around in a small country - daily made smaller from unnecessary bridges (replacing
cozy rest on ferries) and new highways - while I myself get more and more
fat, lazy, stressed and unhealthy from too little exercise - I have decided
to reclaim the "huge" lovely country I knew in my childhood by running
the length and breadth of Denmark. That way I hope to save my fellow taxpayers
from the cost of unnecessary hospitalization which the sedentary
life in a car causes. Why do you need a car when you can run across your country in
one day?
