Running eight times a kilometer, in between fitness exercises – that’s Hyrox. Our author has now started the popular fitness race together with around 2000 athletes in Hamburg.
Reports on sports experiences often begin with the sentence: It was torture. That’s right, that was it. I don’t want to deny that either. Pushing my own limits in sports has long been alien to me. I’ve never run a marathon, my last competition was tennis when I was a teenager. It’s been ages. And then I immediately stopped doing it. I wanted to have fun with sports and not fight doggedly for victories.