Pain is temporary – Pride is forever!

44 members, business partners and employees of the Club took on the challenge of the 29th “Göteborgsvarvet” on May 17th, a half marathon over two bridges and through the city centre. Over the years the Göteborg Half Marathon has grown to be one of the greatest long distance races in the world, with a new record 2008: 45 375 runners!

Everyone in The Swedish Club Team who finally made it to the starting line also finished, heavily cheered by a small but eager support team. The fastest of all was Mr Marc-Michael Meier of NSB who completed in impressive 1 hour and 26 minutes that resulted in a 611 place overall. The NSB team also won the Club’s own competition of having best estimated their individual finishing times. Seldom did the beer and wine taste so good as at the dinner at Språkcaféet co-hosted by Transbulk that evening and everyone agreed with Lars Rhodin in that “Pain is temporary – Pride is forever!”

The Swedish Club Team was represented by runners from the following companies:

Advokatfirman Vinge KB
Cobelfin NV
Conti Reederei
Eversheds LLP
Holman Fenwick & Willan
Junge & Co Versicherungsmakler GmbH
Mays Brown Solicitors
NSB – Niederelbe Schiffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG
The Swedish Club
Transbulk 1904 AB

Carbo-loading at Pasta Grande the evening before the race:

The start of the half-marathon in excellent conditions:

And after approx 20km:

Finally, a well deserved dinner at the Språkcafeet: