{"id":135485,"date":"2017-10-15T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deploy.frankfurt-marathon.com\/?p=135485"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T15:29:23","slug":"arne-gabius-backwind-strength-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/arne-gabius-backwind-strength-hurricane\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Gabius: \u201cMy backwind has the strength of a hurricane\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German running-star Arne Gabius says, about the power of a bad breakfast before the start, the birthday of his first child on the day of the marathon and other aspects along the Frankfurt course.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why kind of picture do you have in front of you when you think about the 29th<\/sup> of October?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe pictures that I think about that I collected in Frankfurt from 2014 and 2015 were:\u00a0 jammed packed city, nice weather, motivated runner, and a top organization.\u00a0 Especially, the itching feeling, this early excitement, the nervousness and the stage fright on the start.\u00a0 I trained for the moment for weeks now.<\/p>\n

Are you along on the course in a tunnel- or do you keep the eyes wide opened to take in everything?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I focus especially point on the course that I know extremely good.\u00a0 That\u2019s a homefield advantage.<\/p>\n

Do you concentrate on the kilometer markers or most on things of the city?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first 5 kilometers, it\u2019s about getting into the swing of things in the race.\u00a0 On the other side of the start on the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage and then on the nutrition stations on the Bremer Stra\u00dfe by kilometer 9 are points that are easily recognized.\u00a0 Also, the 2.5-kilometer-long segment along the Main and the old bridge, I take in deeply.\u00a0 At the half marathon point in the jammed packed enthusiastic center is the Schwanheimer bridge, then the Mainzer Landstra\u00dfe with the tracks in the middle, the race-hotel, where the top athletes are staying by kilometer 35 \u2013 I always keep an eye out for these.
\n2014 was a very impressive marathon debut for you in Frankfurt, in 2015 followed the joyous German record \u2013 what\u2019s new for your third start in Frankfurt in 2017?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe motto is: comeback.\u00a0 From this standpoint I had a little problem in the record year of 2015, which after numerous injuries costed me my chance by the Olympics in Rio.\u00a0 I could barely walk and had to take a pause from May of 2016 to January 2017.\u00a0 Also, in this summer there were times, when I noticed, somethings not right: Then I changed things up radically.<\/p>\n

What for example?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I avoided certain food, that I thought didn\u2019t do me good.\u00a0 Most of them things that tasted very good to me \u2013 and that was very hard.\u00a0 But that\u2019s how it is now.\u00a0 The payout: I feel like a new person, this because I don\u2019t have any more pain.\u00a0 I had pain something and the muscles never seemed to get enough rest.\u00a0 In the meantime, I have a really good insight into my training and the main focus is on Frankfurt.\u00a0 In short: I don\u2019t have to fight anymore, it\u2019s just flows.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how marathon should be.<\/p>\n

How much slipstream did the best test run by a half marathon in Copenhagen (62:31 min.) in September have?<\/strong>
\nThat is very important.\u00a0 The slipstream had almost the strength of a hurricane.\u00a0 When Copenhagen didn\u2019t work out, my head would start to turn around in circles.\u00a0 The time was good, but the main thing was the feeling I had while running.\u00a0 It was actually really fun.
\nDo you have a specific finishing time for your run in Frankfurt set?<\/strong>\u00a0 I will be in the second group, that will probably run the half marathon in 64:15 to 64:30.\u00a0 First, it would be nice to be in the area around the time for the German record.\u00a0 I hope for a good mix of pacemakers and ambitious competition.\u00a0 According to past experience, the technical meeting at the end of the race is then still quiet annoying.\u00a0 I am quite confident that I can run between 2:08 and 2:10 \u2013 it would be quite nice when it\u2019s under 2:10.<\/p>\n

You have felt the hardships of the marathon business around 2 years now on your own.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you sometimes wish to be a better soccer player?<\/strong>
\nNo, I have a mind of my own and am pretty much independent.\u00a0 I love my freedom \u2013 running is the ideal sport for it.\u00a0 My first trainer in Hamburg laid a lot on, that I always know exactly, when and why I make a specific type of training.\u00a0 This is because, he didn\u2019t want me to just train without a solid plan.\u00a0 With all that joy and excitement from this team thinking, I couldn\u2019t imagine, to do everything is a determined plan to make a team even happier.<\/p>\n

Are you following your old trainings plan that you had by your first 2 Frankfurt marathon success experience?
\n<\/strong> Marathon preparation are never identical with another.\u00a0 I have chosen about the same amount of burdens with about the same amount of intensive sessions.\u00a0 A fast, 30-kilometer run is a part of it, also, a longer distance of 46 kilometer with intervals built in.\u00a0 In total, new influences and new ideas leads more often to a new type of trainings session.\u00a0 In addition, there part of my training sessions that are spontaneous and my body has to adjust to this.\u00a0 I am very optimistic, that I will be in top form when starting.<\/p>\n

At the beginning, you mentioned the nervousness and a little stress at the start, is this something that you let nature take its course or do you do something about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stage fright holds a big fear factor in it \u2013 including the question: Will everything be okay today?\u00a0 Why are you doing this to yourself today?\u00a0 And this is exactly what you have to do, let nature take its course so everything will be good.\u00a0 My experience is:\u00a0 Always, when I start the races with a cool head, the run will be bad.\u00a0 When I shovel everything in my mouth by breakfast, then my wife knows, it won\u2019t be a good competition. \u00a0But if I have to force-feed myself by breakfast, then she knows, it we be a good race.<\/p>\n

How does the couple Gabius, go on with the birthday of the first child, since it is on the day of the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Gabius family, the countdown is ticking for 2 events.\u00a0 We will be prepared for both.\u00a0 Of course, she cannot be on the bike and reaching drinks over to me.\u00a0 The odds, that my first child has a birthday on this exact day is so small \u2013 statistically only 4 percent.\u00a0 No stress.\u00a0 We have so little hands, just as the weather in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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