Simon, Casper and Diego win Amsterdam Beerchase

November 1st 2009 - On Saturday night, Simon participated in the annual Amsterdam Beerchase with teammates Casper Dirks and Diego from Spain. The Beerchase is a relay of 3 km where each of the team members runs 5 times 200m. In his rest, the team member needs to drink a glas of beer.

Tough competition was given by the team of 400m hurlde hero Marius Kranendonk. The team stayed with Simon's team until th elast 250, where Casper Dirks forced a leadig edge of some 15m. All Simon needed to do was to consolidate the lead and sprint to victory. The winnig time was a record breaking 6.59 minutes, which is an average of 27.9 per 200m.

"Running 27 seconds on 200m is no problem for me", Simon said. "But bagging a beer in the 55 seconds break, while breathing hard to recover from the running, that was something which I wasn't particularly good at."

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