Cotonou Marathon is a quite new running event taking place in the city of Cotonou, the most important city in Benin 🇧🇯. The organisers aim to become the biggest marathon … MORE
Cotonou Marathon is a quite new running event taking place in the city of Cotonou, the most important city in Benin 🇧🇯. The organisers aim to become the biggest marathon in Africa. They offer the distances of 42k, 21k, 10k, 5k. As my favourite distance is the half marathon I signed up for the 21k. I was very surprised that I was one of only 32 runners running the half marathon. It was a mix of locals and expats from the US or from Europe living in Cotonou. I was the only runner that extra travelled to Cotonou for the race. Weather conditions were the worst I ever experienced: temperatures around 33-35 degrees and a humidity of 95%. I was completely wet after running a few hundred meters. It‘s absolutely recommendable to take water with you even though water was offered every 3-5km. Start and finish is at the statue de l‘Amazone next to the parliament. Unfortunately finishers of the half marathon did not get a medal. Only finishers of the full marathon (23 runners) got a medal. I have a feedback to the organisers and told them that I am very disappointed as I extra came from Germany. When they heard that they promised me to send a medal to me as they had a few spare medals left. 5 weeks after the race took place I really got a lovely wooden medal! 😍
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Toughest half marathon ever!
Cotonou Marathon is a quite new running event taking place in the city of Cotonou, the most important city in Benin 🇧🇯. The organisers aim to become the biggest marathon … MORE
Cotonou Marathon is a quite new running event taking place in the city of Cotonou, the most important city in Benin 🇧🇯. The organisers aim to become the biggest marathon in Africa. They offer the distances of 42k, 21k, 10k, 5k. As my favourite distance is the half marathon I signed up for the 21k. I was very surprised that I was one of only 32 runners running the half marathon. It was a mix of locals and expats from the US or from Europe living in Cotonou. I was the only runner that extra travelled to Cotonou for the race. Weather conditions were the worst I ever experienced: temperatures around 33-35 degrees and a humidity of 95%. I was completely wet after running a few hundred meters. It‘s absolutely recommendable to take water with you even though water was offered every 3-5km. Start and finish is at the statue de l‘Amazone next to the parliament. Unfortunately finishers of the half marathon did not get a medal. Only finishers of the full marathon (23 runners) got a medal. I have a feedback to the organisers and told them that I am very disappointed as I extra came from Germany. When they heard that they promised me to send a medal to me as they had a few spare medals left. 5 weeks after the race took place I really got a lovely wooden medal! 😍