With no competition in sight a crazy idea started to sprout. Why don't we run around the lake of Zurich? You mean the lake of Zurich, like the same course we ride with our road bikes every now and then? But that's like 65+ kilometers (41 miles).
So we decided that have to try it and we set a date to make it real. We picked the Saturday April 24th and since great weather was announced we wanted to start early and so we set off at 5:50 from Bellevue in clockwise direction around the lake.
Large parts of the circumnavigation were wonderfully beautiful but towards the end the missing long distance kilometers became noticeable and the initial pace could no longer be maintained. So the last few kilometers became a mental challenge but the thought of burgers and beer at the finish line kept us running.
In Thalwil we stopped for water and besides that, we carried all our water and gels from the start to the finish line.