Firmenlauf ’10
When Firmenlauf ’10 was announced, Canoo decided to build a team and to participate again this year. We had great fun last time (see Firmenlauf ’09 part I and II) and the race deadline gave us a goal for our rigorous 30° lunchtime jogging sessions. Also I personally like the team spirit generated by such events.
Left to right: Andrei, Christian, Roland, Johannes, Hamlet, Günter, Markus and Alexandra
Even though six kilometers is a relatively small distance, a certain fitness is still needed to increase the pleasure factor. Otherwise you are only suffering and this is definitely not what you want to achieve.
It was interesting to observe how the team organized itself for the training sessions. The participants regularly asked each others to go for group runs. The single shower we have here at the office rapidly became a bottleneck, adding some roughness to the whole story.
We regrettably had to experience two defects. Hamlet kindly accepted the challenge in the last minute. So at the end we were 8 at the starting line instead of 9 initially announced. At 7pm on Friday the 9th of July the starting gun fired. After a cumulated time of 2:10:34,5 the first group of Canooies composed of Alexandra, Markus, Günter and Christian crossed the line hand in hand, just after the Herzog & de Meuron architects but before another Software engineers company I am not mentioning by name… For a complete results overview, click here.
Left to right: Markus, Christian, Günther and Alexandra
The rest of the team composed of Roland, Andrei, Johannes and Hamlet successfully crossed the line as well. Everyone did an incredible job. I can tell you: this year was really hard. It was so hot and humid. A couple of people collapsed (no one from Canoo luckily) and we heard the ambulance at least once.
More photos could be found on Flickr.
