Marathon at the Royal.

Gold medals for the fastest: In a 110-kilometer mountain mass migration rate in Sweden is rewarded. It attracts a lot at the wayside to linger - for example, the fresh reindeer burger at "Lap DÃ¥nalds".

 

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- 8 August, 9.30 clock

Tarja is the silence itself sits relaxed on her pink pillow, while around them last preparations are being made: people pack again and again to their backpacks, rain jackets lie on the floor, walking sticks, sleeping bags, thermos flasks, boots with socks. A family from Berlin discussed how many slices of bread Father, how many and whether the mother not the daughter of the gas at least sustain it.

In front of the toilet cubicles at the edge of a meadow, there are people in functional clothing line. Just Tarja's all nothing. The three-year-old nuckelt on her pacifier, then she says: "I want to piggyback." It says the backpack in which their parents with teddy bear by the Swedish highlands want to wear.

110 kilometers of walking are Nikkaluokta, a village with red wooden houses, a restaurant and a church, to the northern railway station Abisko. Intermediate extends a soft gekupptes, cut by glaciers, with cobalt blue lakes speckled mountains: the mountains. Leads through the middle of the Kungsleden, the "King", for walkers so far is something like the Hawaiian Ironman triathletes for once in your life you have to have it mastered. Tarja, their parents and 398 other people are about. They belong to the first starter of the group "Fjällräven Classic", a kind of walking people, organized by the Swedish outdoor company.

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His gold medal at the Kungsleden Author Tom has time for the current GEO Special erwandert Sweden. The booklet was published on 1 April 2009. Other topics: A look behind the scenes of the royal family, bestselling author HÃ¥kan Nesser said the Swedish thriller boom, and a summer house-owner, tells of her personal Bullerbyn.

The rules are simple: You go every day for as long as you want and can. You sleep in your tent. You pass the six checkpoints along the way to get a stamp in the passport traveling to give - as evidence that the route really completes it. Who Abisko in less than three days, will receive a gold medal. For four days, there are silver, five bronze and more. "The Classic", says organizer Hellentin Jonas, "but not his race." Rather, it is a question the nature to enjoy. And "freedom, loneliness and happiness" to be felt.

Most of the total 1921 participants, in this and the following three days in five groups start on the road, will share this ideal. Anders Dahlin certainly not: He is one of mountain runners at the starting area like nervous horses from foot to foot trip, because in their tight lycra pants freeze. And because they can not expect at the track record to measure. The stands at 13 hours 36 minutes.

A distant world for those who simply want to reach the goal. As the three men from Mindelheim: You make a very expensive vacation, "because they never have wandered from the function and undershirt to sleeping only once had to buy everything. Before the start of many hikers leave their backpacks weigh. The easiest measure two, the heaviest 25 kg. I is exactly in between.