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Originally Posted by Esel Mann
Run the marathon there! I did so back in 2009. Great way to see the city. You even get to run through the Brandenberg tor (as well as run past the Berlin Hooters to name just a couple of landmarks)!!
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I did that in 1999.
My running partner's mom worked for UAL, so we flew for free. The friend we were going to stay with in Berlin was in New York and missed her flight back to Berlin. When she no-showed, I called her folks who lived four hrs. away and they told me we were on our own. We had partied hard the previous night in Cologne and then driven to Berlin. By then the roads were closing and the hotels were full. We parked in a residential area near the starting line, slept in the car and then ran 42 km in the pouring rain. Of course, we had nowhere to shower afterwards, so we just drove to my friends in Halle, who insisted in getting us drunk as soon as we arrived. To this day I have never slept better than I did that night.