Run&Fun – Werner Schwaiger Edition

Let’s go for a relaxed run along the Isar, from the Protected content and back on the other side of the river.

All fitness levels welcome. Run/walk at your own pace. Whatever your speed, we’ll meet afterward at Protected content for drinks/lunch/brunch.

Distance: 6.65 km to the bar, 7.5 km if you run back to Protected content 5K also possible - just let me know.

So who was Werner Schwaiger? He used to live under an overpass along this route, or on a meadow nearby when the weather allowed. He was homeless. By choice. Sometimes, when I passed, we’d exchange a nod or a quick hello. Often, he was reading or working on his laptop.

After he died from a heart attack a year ago, many locals left notes remembering their regular chats with him, the Elly Seidl pralines they brought, or how they let him use their shower and charge his devices.

If you like, you can take this run as an opportunity to reflect - on life’s twists, the choices we make, the kindness of strangers, and how our lives are connected - or you can simply do something good for your health and enjoy the fresh air, the run, and great company.