Summer’s over! Riding the tram home on Thursday evening I picked up a copy of the free paper Blick am Abend. On page three a I read “Der Sommer war schön” (The summer was nice). I think to myself, “was nice” it’s only August there is still a good month of summer left and, summer...
A simple wish comes true Since I started running marathons, I’ve wanted to run in an inaugural race. When I found out through my friend Mark that Grindelwald was putting together the EigerUltraTrail, I knew I wanted to do it and so I signed up for the 101km. I had done the Swissalpine K78 a...
Back to Zermatt There is something comforting about returning to someplace familiar. For the third year in a row on the first Friday in July I took the train to the most picture perfect alpine city there is — Zermatt. With it’s international fame as a resort for the rich and famous, Zermatt is best...
June 29, 2013: Not Quite Summer Summer took its sweet time arriving in Switzerland this year. However, on June 16th the mountain running calendar got started with the LGT Marathon in Liechtenstein with the best weather conditions. Despite a beautiful start to the season the weather turned again and by the Graubünden Marathon on June...
The idea of shooting a short trail running in the Swiss Alps had been tossed around between us before, and so in Sept. 2012 we decided to just do it. Our little team included Matthew Anderson, a photographer based in Winterthur who has a passion for adventure sport filming to do camera work, with music provided by...
For a marathon day getting up at 7am is rather late, but quite the welcomed treat. The day’s mission was to run the legendary Frauenfelder. Now if you’re not from Switzerland, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Frauenfeld, though it does host Europe’s largest hip-hop festival every summer and is also home to...
The Dromeus team (well the two of us: Christian and Mark) teamed up with Matthew Anderson Photography to do a trail running video shoot in the alps. We decided on Mt. Santis, a high massive in the easter Swiss alps and made the Rotsteinpass hut our base of operations. Our goal was to capture the...
What do you get for the world’s most beautiful marathon on it’s 20th birthday? How about a full three days of unbelievably beautiful summer weather and nearly double the number of participants from all over the world, oh and for good measure the right to host the Long Distance Mountain Running World Championships. Well that...
One of the most beautiful (and there are many) mountain locations in Switzerland is Glarus, and if you’re in the area, a nice run is from Elm to Linthal over the Richetlipass and is about 20km and 1200m elevation gain. This run started in Elm Dorf at 977m, after passing a Swiss tank base you...
I like races that take you places, from towns to mountains and from one valley to the next. It’s fine to run a race on a beautiful day, but it’s the ones where the weather goes through changes that are memorable for me. The 2012 SwissAlpine K42 Marathon began and ended in the rain for...