1. Cross RBUAP Rodange
First hibernal cross-country run of the season with a good kids’ participation from our team. Best result of the day goes to Maya Proess, who finished on excellent 10th rank overall in category ‘Scolaires F 1810m (2004/2005)’. Noa Langer twisted her ankle right at the beginning so she struggeled to finish on 29th rank in the […]
Chris Weyland qualifies for IM Hawaii 2017
Great performance from Christian Weyland at the Ironman Malaysia Langkawi, known as ‘the toughest show on earth’. This Ironman is one of the hardest races on the circuit due to very high temperatures reaching 40ºC during the day combined with high humidity above 80%. After a decent swim in the warm Andaman Sea (non-wetsuit), Chris […]
Deulux-Lauf Langsur 10km
Several athletes from X3M participated at the 10km road race in Langsur, one of the biggest 10km races around with nearly 2000 runners. Best performance goes to Gavin Hodgson, who missed his personal best time by only 6sec – his end time of 35:23 net allowed him to take 31st rank overall and 2nd in […]
New PB for Antoine Lallier at New York Marathon
Trail World Championshis Peneda-Gerês/Portugal
14. Fakellaf Belle-Etoile
Great event – Great results! The 14th edition of the Fakellaf Belle-Etoile night run, illuminated contiguously by torches along the whole 5km track, was a big success again. Several X3M runners raced this fast race in the dark with some very good results. Best performance goes to Bob Haller who crossed the finishline on 3rd […]
Medico list
1. Saarschleife-Trail
On Sunday Oct 30th, Guy Theissen raced the short distance trail (13,3km, 500M+) of the 1. Saarschleife in Orscholz, Germany. Although, being only 13,3 km long, this trail run proved to be both technically and physically demanding consisting of long single tracks and lots of ups and downs. Guy crossed the finish line ranked 19th […]
Frankfurt Marathon – new PB for C. Wurth
6. Haard-Trail Dudelange
Yves Koch (picture) and Jérôme Barthels ran the 6th edition of the Haard Trail in Dudelange on saturday afternoon – this year over a new 15km track with approx. 390m positive altitude difference. Yves finished on 23rd rank overall in 1:06:42 and 5th in M30. Jérôme took 1:17:49 and ranked 96th overall out of 196 finishers. RESULTS […]
Night Trail Tintigny
On Friday night (Oct14th) Guy Theissen raced the 20Km night trail in Tintigny (B). This beautiful running course mainly consisted out of single tracks, a few ups and downs and the odd water crossing. Guy crossed the finish line in little more than 2 hours in what was surely a very well organized event including […]
Culture Marathon Echternach 2016
Very good results from our runners Gavin Hodgson and Hubert Strauss (latest recruit in X3M) at the marathon Echternach. Hubert Strauss finished on excellent 9th rank overall in 2h58:27 and won the male M45 age category. Gavin Hodgson ran 3h01:02 and finished on 11th position overall and 3rd in M30. Chris Doyle had a DNF […]
Weekend results
Brice Faucheux and Carlo Feltes raced the cross-duathlon race at the Red Rock Challenge in Belvaux this sunday. This atypical cross-duathlon over 49km (21.2km MTB / 9.6km trail run / 18.2km MTB) was held around the historic cultural industrial site Fond-de-Gras in Belvaux/Differdange. Best result goes to Fabrice who took 14th rank overall in 2:44:05. […]
Olivier Godart 30th at IM Barcelona
Olivier Godart showed, once again, all his potential taking a fantastic 30th overall rank at the Ironman Barcelona today. After a good non-wetsuit swim split in 58:12min, Olivier raced very hard on the windy bike course to finish the 180km along the mediterranean coast in 4:46:04 (37.7km/h). Olivier left T2 around 70th rank overall, so […]
Semi-Marathon Bruxelles
Antoine Lallier and Bruno de Courcy ran the half-marathon Bruxelles yesterday, one of the biggest running events in Belgium. Nearly 6500 runners finished this well-organized run through the belgian capital. Very impressive result from 18 year-old Bruno de Courcy – he ran a personal best time of 1:19:57 and classified on 31st rank overall. Antoine […]
Duathlon S de la citadelle Rodemack [FRA]
On Sunday Oct 2nd, Claire Metzdorff, Carlo Feltes and Guy Theissen were at the start of the Sprint Duathlon 5-25-3 km in the picturesque medieval town of Rodemack (F). On a fresh and windy autumn day 71 athletes turned up at the starting line despite heavy rain showers preceding the event. On a beautiful but […]
RheinEnergie Marathon Köln
Walfer Vollekslaf 12km/6.5km
During today’s ’41. Walfer Vollekslaf’ over 12km, Emiliano Laruccia showed the best performance of the X3M runners. He finished in 48:21min net allowing him to take 70th rank overall. In the kid’s race over the long 6.5km distance, 12y old Maya Proess finished on excellent 2nd age group rank in WUE (born 2004) category. Congratulations! […]
Hot Route du vin 2016!
The runners of the 55th edition of the Route du vin half marathon suffered a lot today due to high running temperatures above 24°C. Chris Doyle showed the best X3M performance today with a net end time of 1:25:44 and a final 65th rank out of 1546 finishers. Gavin Hodgson took 130th rank overall in […]
Challenge Tageblatt 8 Esch/Alzette
Challenge Allures Libre de Gaume in Tintigny
On Sunday Sep 18th, Guy Theissen and Marc Matgen ran the short distance 8.6 km race counting for the Challenge Allures Libre de Gaume in Tintigny. On a lovely day runners were confronted with a hilly and mixed terrain (road/fields/forest). Guy crossed the finish line ranked 25th out of 309 finishers in 39 minutes 10 […]
Eislek-(Tri)Duathlon
Due to the recent mass outbreaks of cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, in the water of the Haute-Sûre reservoir, the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure has recommended against bathing in the reservoir water. Therefore, the first edition of the Eislek-Triathlon was changed to a Duathlon with a 5km running loop instead of the 1.9km […]
Hard day @ Gerardmer Triathlon XL
Jean-Claude Schmitz and Fabrice Coste raced the difficult and hilly middle distance triathlon XL in Gerardmer [France]. A hilly 3x 31.5km bike course (1900m altitude difference) through the well-known ‘ballon des vosges’ and a 3-loop running course around the lake of Gerardmer made it a hard day for everyone. Jean-Claude finished, exhausted and partly walking […]
Chris Doyle = Powerman Vice World Champion M50
Extraordinary result from Chris Doyle today at the traditional POWERMAN Zofingen in Switzerland, counting for the Powerman World Championships in long distance duathlon. On this hard and demanding course over 10-150-30km, Chris Doyle took the 2nd age group rank in M50 resulting in a vice world championship title!!! Especially his running performance with a fast 1st […]