Gay Games 2010 - Cologne

It's official - I signed up to run my next marathon and I'm headed to Cologne Germany! I will be participating in the 2010 Gay Games. Gay Games you ask? Yes and it's not a fashion, hair, gardening or cooking competition! All of which I would do well in by the way! This is all about sports baby. Check out the link above for a list of all the events - it's pretty impressive.



It's time for me to get serious about training since I've not been in formal training since I completed the New York Marathon in November of last year. I felt pretty good about completing it in 3:46:23 - I hope to do even better in Cologne! My partner Kent is going to run in the half marathon while I do the full marathon - we are looking forward to it. Although I've been to Germany a couple of times it's been awhile since I've been in Cologne and even then it was on a train headed from Frankfurt to Paris so I've not spent much time in Cologne and never in Berlin so I am hoping to catch a train to Berlin to check it out.

I'd love to hear from you if you have ever participated in the games in general and or if you have travel advice about Cologne or Berlin. I'll keep you posted on my training progress.

Jim