Guido Hartmann is a fireman and at the same time a friend of running. But not in practical functional clothing, but in full operational clothing. With this campaign, he collects donations for seriously ill children and wants to draw attention to the disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (muscle paralysis). BERTRAND finds this very worthy of support: At this year’s Easter run in Paderborn, he kindly answered a few questions:

Question 1: What is the motivation behind these runs in operational clothing?

Sick children! Due to my job I unfortunately know many sick children. Years ago I met Mathias Schmidt and he runs to draw attention to the disease muscular dystrophy. And ever since I met him, I found it so supportive that I’ve been wanting to draw attention to this disease ever since, even in full outfits. I myself have been a member of the association Hilfe für das krebs- und schwerstkrankes Kind e. V. for many years, and of course my two ideas can be combined perfectly. In this way I can collect donations, but also raise awareness for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Why do we run in mission gear? Because it is a signal that we want to send. Especially with today’s temperatures, the run will be very difficult. It will be warm, we will certainly have to torture ourselves a little. But that is also a bit of the background: The children who get DMD always have a hard time in their short lives. In the beginning the disease runs without symptoms until the muscles start to regress. Then Duchenne muscular dystrophy is diagnosed. Most children are in wheelchairs before the age of ten because they have no strength left. At some point, the respiratory and cardiac muscles also begin to regress. Most children die before they are 20.