The small Scheidegg in front of your eyes

Together with Ruedi Becker (left) and Philipp Arnold (right), Thomas Hug (center) won the team competition at this year's Zugerberg Classic.

The Raiffeisen Zuger-Trophy has also been on a summer break since last Sunday. The stages in Menzingen saw a lot of sweat flowing once again. Once again, there are many well-known names on the podium in the Trophy scene. And a few lesser-known ones too, such as Thomas Hug from Cham.

He did it once on the stage in Ennetsee. He was faster than Philipp Arnold on the long stage. In Menzingen, Thomas Hug once again had to settle for second place over the medium distance. He commented approvingly on Arnold's performance: "Philipp is simply in a different league. I fight to the last and am only faster when he has a bad day."

From rock'n'roll to running
Hug started running in 2011: "When my wife was pregnant with our first child, we stopped dancing rock'n'roll." That's why he started running that year. And just one year later, he was already a finisher of the Jungfrau Marathon on the Kleine Scheidegg. Even then, he covered the 42.2 kilometers in the fantastic time of 4:25 hours. That was his greatest experience to date: "That moment when I saw the finish line from afar in my very first race and realized that I was going to make it there was incredible."

Jungfrau remains the favorite
For Thomas Hug, the Jungfrau is still the most beautiful run. And every year he gets to the top faster. In 2014, he ran it in under four hours. Two years later, in 2016, he made it into the top ten in his age category with a time of 3:38 hours. And what about 2018? The mountain marathon is once again the big goal for the season. Hug trains for it once a week with the Cham running group. "It's around eight hours of training in total if I run to the office every day," says Hug.

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