The Blankeneser Heldenlauf takes place in Blankenese, a neighbourhood on Hamburg's Elbe waterfront,
and lets you choose one of five course with different distances and levels of difficulty.
All course start at the corner of Strandweg and Mühlenberg, and the finish is at the Blankenese weekly market square.
Most of the course are on park paths rather than roads.
There are two half marathon.
The Sutsche follows the Elbe, briefly covering about 1 km through the Treppenviertel, known for its stairway lanes,
then runs along the Elbe beach for 5 km past the Falkenstein and Rissen waterfronts and the Rissen lighthouse.
It turns around at the Schleswig-Holstein state border and returns via the Wittenbergen heath.
The Derbe follows a similar route as far as Hirschpark,
after which it includes slopes such as the climb up Polterberg, then loops around Tafelberg and passes Falkenstein.
The toughest route is the Bergziege.
After climbing the stairs to Baur's Park, it passes through the Treppenviertel,
Bismarckstein and the Süllberg water tower, before finishing with the Waseberg, which has a maximum gradient of 15%.
The 2026 event was the 22nd edition.
