{"id":294327,"date":"2018-10-25T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deploy.frankfurt-marathon.com\/?p=294327"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:51:55","slug":"arne-gabius-and-katharina-heinig-say-they-are-ready-to-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankfurt-marathon.com\/en\/arne-gabius-and-katharina-heinig-say-they-are-ready-to-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Arne Gabius and Katharina Heinig say they are ready to race"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Arne Gabius and Katharina Heinig are ready for the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday. Last year the leading German duo won their respective national titles at this prestigious race which holds the IAAF Gold Label, the highest distinction awarded by the world governing body of athletics. Although the German national titles will not be at stake on Sunday, both are keen to make their presence felt in the German top performance lists for the year and possibly also the European lists.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy goal is to produce a smooth performance on Sunday. When I made my marathon debut in Frankfurt I ran the first half in 65 minutes and the second half faster \u2013 that gave me a lot of pleasure. At 30 kilometres I was 21st but finished fourth. Whenever I watch a race for motivation, I turn to Frankfurt 2014,\u201d said Arne Gabius, who plans a similar approach on Sunday. \u201cI want to run the first half in 65 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were good and bad days in training but the good outweighed the bad,\u201d reflected Gabius, who lost around two weeks of training to two bouts of cold. For this reason he doesn\u2019t envisage a record chase similar to that three years ago in Frankfurt when he broke the German record with 2:08:33. The 37-year-old is nevertheless keen to maintain his successful sequence in Frankfurt. \u201cSo far I\u2019ve always finished inside the top ten,\u201d said Gabius, who has also broken 2:10 on each of his previous races here. He ran 2:09:32 on his marathon debut, followed that with the national record of 2:08:33 the next year and last year returned after various injury problems to run 2:09:59.<\/p>\n

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Gabius had his share of injury problems this year as well. He had to drop out of the Boston Marathon in April with neck problems. A programme of stretching and yoga helped him deal with this. \u201cI think running between 2:09 and 2:11 is possible on Sunday \u2013 I\u2019d be happy with that. To run 2:12 would be disappointing.\u201d The current German best for the year is 2:13:39 by Philipp Pflieger in Hamburg in April. Only four Europeans have run sub 2:10 this year and a 2:11 time would still be good enough for a top ten position in the continent\u2019s season\u2019s list.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo give myself motivation during the winter and in preparation for the next race, a good performance in Frankfurt is very important,\u201d said Gabius, who has no plans to run at the 2019 World Championships in Doha. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t interest me at all but, of course, the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 is a big goal for me,\u201d explained Gabius.<\/p>\n

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It’s going to be very tough for Katharina Heinig, whose mother and coach is former world-class marathoner Katrin D\u00f6rre-Heinig, in an extraordinarily strong women\u2019s field to finish among the leaders. \u201cGoing on my personal best, I am ranked 15th on the start list,\u201d said the 29-year-old Frankfurt runner who ran 2:29:29 to finish eighth here last year.<\/p>\n

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Heinig struggled to be at her best in the extreme heat of the European Championships in Berlin in August, finishing 16th in 2:35:00. She then married on September 6 before making a late decision to run in Frankfurt. \u201cThe first week of training was hard but then things went really well. Of course it\u2019s hard to give an exact prediction because it\u2019s a marathon after all,\u201d explained Katharina Heinig, whose first objective is to run under 2:30. \u201cMy second goal would be 2:29:28 but whether I can run faster than that, I\u2019ll see how it goes on race day.\u201d Her second objective would be exactly one second faster than the current leader in the German women\u2019s rankings, Anja Scherl, who ran 2:29:29 in Osaka in Japan in January. Heinig\u2019s best time is 2:28:34. Only 13 European women have run under 2:30 this year.<\/p>\n

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Katharina Heinig\u2019s key goal is the Olympic Games and, like Arne Gabius, she has no plans to run in the World Championships in Doha next year. \u201cAlthough the start is at midnight, it will still be 30 degrees \u2013 there would be no point me being there,\u201d said Heinig, who doesn\u2019t run well in the heat. After the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon the next item on her agenda will be surgery on a troublesome heel. \u201cI don\u2019t want to risk anything in terms of aiming to qualify for the Olympics so that\u2019s why I am having surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both Arne Gabius and Katharina Heinig will wear the number seven in the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday. This number \u2013 it will be F7 in the women\u2019s race \u2013 is traditionally given by the international race co-ordinator Christoph Kopp to the runner he reckons can achieve something special and he has often been proven right.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”294192″][dhsv_vc_video_youtube video_id=”NJ2r11pCT9Q”][dhsv_vc_caption text=”\u201cMy goal is to produce a smooth performance on Sunday. When I made my marathon debut in Frankfurt I ran the first half in 65 minutes and the second half faster \u2013 that gave me a lot of pleasure. At 30 kilometres I was 21st but finished fourth. Whenever I watch a race for motivation, I turn to Frankfurt 2014,\u201d said Arne Gabius, who plans a similar approach on Sunday. \u201cI want to run the first half in 65 minutes.\u201d”][dhsv_vc_video_youtube video_id=”qiN84u3TGCY”][dhsv_vc_caption text=”\u201cThe first week of training was hard but then things went really well. Of course it\u2019s hard to give an exact prediction because it\u2019s a marathon after all,\u201d explained Katharina Heinig, whose first objective is to run under 2:30. \u201cMy second goal would be 2:29:28 but whether I can run faster than that, I\u2019ll see how it goes on race day.\u201d”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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