How it all began “Run with us… just one loop”, Michael Schlamann said to me. In reaction to a facebook post of mine. He had posted a link to the quirky website of an even quirkier race. ‘How it all began… the introduction was headed. A weird story about drunk beavers carrying a devil called Bachstüpp on their back. A reference was made to the Rur valley, Germany. Then some stuff about a footrace followed. The race basically consists of six loops of sixty kilometers which have to be completed within sixty hours. I told Michael I’d think about it, but to [...]