SkyRun at the Park Inn Berlin-Alexanderplatz
A view over Berlin expects you on top of Germany’s highest hotel. It is already for the 4th time that the Park Inn Berlin-Alexanderplatz opens its doors for the tower run. When the cheerleaders of the Spandau Bulldogs try to take off some stress of the competitors with their show, the atmosphere inside the stairwell is totally different. Accompanied by the rhythm of the „Skysound“ the competitors run up to the panorama terrace of the first-class hotel.
Facts:
Steps: 770
Height of steps: 17,5 cm
Depth of steps: 29,5 cm
Levels: 39
Difference in altitude: 140 Meter
Height of building: 128 Meter
Winner last year: Thomas Dold
Course record: 3:14 Minuten
Starting fee: 17,50 Euro
Starting time: as of 12:00 h in a time trail system
Registration deadline: 30th April 2009
Late registration not possible.
More information and application: www.skyrun-berlin.de
Description of the route:
The start of the tower run will be outside the building and in 2009 it is supposed to be directly at the Alexanderplatz. Following the blue line on the floor you will run straight through the lobby of the hotel on a large stair to the 2nd floor. There you will enter the real staircase. Pushed by the „SkySound“ you will take the each nine steps per stair by running fast. In level 20 you need to change staircases by crossing the complete level. Again you follow the blue line around the sharp turn right and left. Arriving at the new staircase you continue with the same rhythm. Should you have overseen the huge level signs on your way you will be aware of it on the last steps coated with non-slip aluminum… And up we go at my Run2Sky at the Park Inn Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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