Vienna - Austria

This in Vienna already traditional event was held on November 12 2005 for the 14th time.

In the years 1992-1999 managed by  Schuh-Ski represented by Claudia Viehauser, since 2000 organised by the main person itself:

Der Neue Donauturm
Donauturm Aussichtsturm- und Restaurantbetriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.

Race Info available at: http://www.donauturm.at

Racemode

• Single start within an age group every 20 seconds
• Lightgate at start and finish line
• Eliterunners in 1 minute gaps at the end

There are 779 Steps in 60 pedestals ( new count 2004 with marking on every 10th step).
You always see before you a sign, how many pedestals still to go - but take care: "noch nn Podeste" refers to the old distance til 1999 (58), since 2000 there are 3+14 bonus steps because of easier timing. It´s a ´leftturn´ run with short rhytm-breakers are at 59 - 45 - 33 - 31- 30- 29 - 25 - 15 - 8 pedestals. The standard distance per pedestal is 13 steps and for the last 15 pedestals it gets narrower and overtaking a little bit more difficult.

Since 2003 there is price moneys for the fastest half way home too.
During the race athletes and spectators can follow the race on a monitor in the lobby of the tower. There is live-moderation, cameras are at the start, half way up, 15 pedestals before and at the finish. Participants arriving there not only get hot tea and a shirt, but a bracelet too which allows visiting the "Isola" , a restaurant near the tower where you can have food and drink for free .... Monitors are there too.

my personal race report from 2000, in german only so far