2025: Year in Sport

My Year in Sport, using data from my Apple Watch, Wahoo Bolt, and personal notes & recollections.
I consolidate all data in Apple Health as my single source of truth, using HealthFit to import third-party .fit files.

2025 activities

I went running 32 times with in my local run club Mates&Miles for a total distance of 314km - more than 10% of my yearly distance.

I started in 21 races in total, mostly runs except 3 rowing regattas. The most notable was of course my sub-3:15 marathon finish in April.

I reached my peak running form in July where I can my fastest ever 10k in 37:06. Compared to that, my almost sub-1:30 half marathon finish at my "home race" in Blankense was not as fast as I hoped.

My longest bike ride was 212km from Hamburg to Föhr in a single ride, and my biggest climb 828m at the Puig Major with Gruppetto and Sa Calobra was climbed in 40:45.

After a big cycling crash in August, my bike season was over and my fitness declined rapidly again - which I got to realize at the very end of the year, where I started my next 18-week marathon training block.

Shortly after the crash I got myself an indoor trainer and finished my first Zwift Ride in October.

In 2025 I also started a project of running along all four subway lines in Hamburg, I started with the shortest one U4 in September, 14km, but didn't complete any further runs for various reasons (read: excuses).

Goals for 2026

Run my second ever marathon at least as fast as before, which at the start of year feels like a big challenge already. I hope to string along a couple of good training weeks during this training block. Also, I am already signed up to the 2026 Heldenlauf in Blankense again - wanting an even stronger finish this year.

Break the 3000km barrier in running this year, just about 8.2km per day on average.

Finish my subway running project.

But most importantly: have a lot of fun, great runs with friends, long coffee rides, flying across the water in rowing racing shells and staying injury and crash free.

Running PBs leaving 2025

Distance Time
400m 1:14 (gps)
1k 3:16 (chip)
5k 18:44 (gps)
10k 37:06 (chip)
HM 1:30:33 (chip)
M 3:14:52 (chip)