Nothing's impossible

I'm definetely looking forward to the season 2014! The latter has already started with the first race of Elite League which was a lot of fun (as expected) and ended up with a fifth place for me (as set as my goal). Cool!
Results 1. Nationaler OL 12.1.2014:
qualification race
final race

The weeks before without any competition felt weird and made me hungry for more. Even so they were great! Parkour, inline skating, snowboarding, running as much as I wanted, work at the kiosk, jump in cold water and of course: be mad at any given opportunity. Please note that my motivation is not always at the highest stage. For example, in the last orienteering training I made only about 3.5 km in 1 hour due to a lot of walking/climbing instead of running. I was very tired and stumbled over the fallen trees like a awkward jumping jack. But it was beautiful, sometimes I couldn't help laughing at myself, and it still counted as an orienteering training!)

Here an incomplete list of what I learned in the last days:
- Caffeine makes me run 12 km as a cooldown even if there is the final race a few hours later. This day I ran not less than 42 km, I calculated! Second cooldown after the final race included. Yes, the endless running started to bore me and made me tired somehow, but I couldn't stop! At about 16:30 I broke off with a 50 second bath in the lake in the nearby park. Nice! It was about 360mg of caffeine...
- It's possible to go to an orienteering training without a map. Just print it within your 8 minutes of transfer time at Bern railway station.
- Football two against one can be extremely funny. You just have to add new rules.
- Parkour with gloves only if you like them dripping wet.
- I'm able to life on bubble gums and peppermint tea during one day. A lot of sport as usual. It was a funny new experiment, it worked!

Some results of races I haven't mentioned yet (which does not at all mean they were not cool!):
Bieler Cross 10.11.13
Langenthaler Stadtlauf 23.11.13
Basler Stadtlauf 30.11.13
Course de l'Escalade 7.12.13
Trotteuse Tissot 14.12.13
Zürcher Silvesterlauf 15.12.13 Sie und Er (together with Gil Meyer)
Zürcher Silvesterlauf 15.12.13 Elite

One of my latest orienteering trainings:

..and some more pictures of a great winter so far:

snowboarding

on track

zibelemärit

freeze

snowshoe walking above the fog boundary

because of too much energy and for lack of anything better to do

on track 2

"meine Auszeit" :-)