It’s the morning after the big run. The bottom two of the Vienna City Marathon come to the twin towers of Wienerberg City, he with a limp, she with a backache. “How you feel after a marathon,” they laugh. Abena’s sentences just pour out, Bobby (short for Slobodan) speaks less often and more quietly. The now 41-year-old was practically forced to run in the Federal Army by the famous Vice Lieutenant Eismayer, for which he is still grateful to him today. She has been running since she was a child. “In Africa I walked to school for an hour and a half every day,” says the 39-year-old Ghanese. The 41st Vienna City Marathon was their first marathon for both of them. And a big adventure together.
The big interview – How did you manage to come last?
