For 36 years one day a year the beach in the northwest part of Holland and the sandy dunes belong to the thousands of runners who participate in the PWN Egmond Half Marathon. This year the heroic event will take place at Sunday 11th of January. You can still register!
The PWN Egmond Half Marathon is an unique event in Holland. It guides you, together with 15,000 other runners, from the boulevard of the small town Egmond along the beach and back through one of the most beautiful places of Dutch nature, the dunes in the northwest part of Holland.
In January the weather in Holland is always unpredictable. That is one of the factors that makes this run so tough. It can be below zero with a headwind on the beach, snow can fall, it can be icy, raining or sunny with a backwind. Sometimes the wind is blowing so hard and the flow makes the sea at starting time rough, that there will be no beach at all! You will get wet feed.
The edition of 1985 is known as the toughest race ever in the history of the PWN Egmond Half Marathon. Blizzards hit the runners and the course became invisible. Still nearly 5,000 runners participated that year. The last decennia more international top athletes come to Egmond, for example the Kenyan top runner Tegla Loroupe who won seven times. But also her fellow countrymen Robert Cheboror and William Kipsang have won ‘Egmond’.
In Holland we have this saying amongst the runners: ‘You are not one of us if you have not competed in the PWN Egmond Half Marathon’. This run is not only a fight against yourself, but is also a fight against all the elements of mother nature. Therefore this classical event is one of the most popular runs in Holland.
You can still register at www.pwnegmondhalvemarathon.nl.
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