The Shock-headed Peter Run always offers special running experiences – since 2022 even with a red carpet finish!
Many parents are surprised at how quickly their children complete the race course to the Festhalle during the Shock-headed Peter Run – and run at a brisk pace to pick them up at the finish line. One day before the marathon, it’s the turn of the youngsters aged between five and nine at Germany’s oldest city marathon. The course is 420 metres long, a hundredth of what some parents want to run the next day. With the finish line on the original red carpet. It’s a special experience – parents and grandparents snap their fingers to the bone. Great pictures are taken for the family album with souvenir value.
Shortly before the start of the races, the scenery is reminiscent of a fairground. 80s pop like “The Boys of Summer” blares from the speakers and some of the children seem to be undecided at first whether they should be anxious, excited or unimpressed. The facial expressions of most of them shortly before the start reveal: it’s probably a mixture of everything. Let’s start with the youngest cohort. Some of the children come with their best friends. Sure, together we can do it. Despite some small pile-ups that can happen in the field of runners, even the youngest runners know only one thing: get up and keep running to reach the longed-for goal in the festival hall.
