1) Summer is not yet finished.
2) Life is beautiful.
Explanations:
1) Summer is actually never finished. Just keep jumping in lakes and rivers and fountains at any given opportunity, keep eating ice cream, keep wearing flipflops, keep sunbathing, and ignore the darkness. If your body-heat balance isn't made for this or whatever: the meteorologic summer will come again. For sure.
2) Life is beautiful. And "beautiful" doesn't mean "always perfect". In my life, the most disturbing thing at the moment is my brain that is thinking too much. Sometimes everything sucks and I ruin all my time by thinking what is the right and what is the wrong thing to do. By the way, I almost posted a text about running addiction, but then I thought: No, this isn't interesting anyone, and anyway too personal probably. I guess writing the text already helped a bit to solve this extremely sophisticated problem.
So, what were my (more or less heroic) exploits since my last post in october 2014?
For example, I got one year older. Big applaus to me. No, what I mean is: newly my body tells me at least sometimes afterwards when something was too much. Thanks.
In december 2014 I won the Trotteuse Tissot in a very delightful 3-lap-race. La-Chaux-de-Fonds, I'm coming again.
At the same time, I was almost killing myself mentally with my running addiction.
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January, February and March were full of beautiful bike-adventures, rather than running-adventures, due to an injury.
..even in our dark and dusty cellar. Hometrainer-intervals.
I anyway finished the Survivalrun in Thun. Jogging with one leg, having a great party on the second lap :-D.
One day I ran again (what a pleasure!) and participated for example in
the Grand Prix von Bern,
the Fisherman's Friend Strongmanrun,
the 100km of Biel (overwhelming happiness, satisfaction, affection and gratefulness after the race, lasting for about one week -> huge addiction potential),
the Tour du Val Terbi,
the Emmenlauf (10.5km) with a new 10km personal best, if the route was well measured (36min16.2sec).
I was part of the chorus project "out of darkness" http://www.derchor.ch/website/2015_-_Out_of_Darkness.html. Thrilling!
And I reached many beautiful (and less beautiful ;-)) places under my own power. Pure freedom.
There were many many other unforgettable experiences, that I forgot (notice the wonderful logic behind this clause), or that are too personal for this blog. Is the following (completely painless) experience at the Toasted Challenge 2015 too personal? No, it's even on youtube. Watch the 30 seconds between 1:23 and 1:53, if you don't want to miss the chance of getting the giggles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7MAmXQ1D0&feature=share
Und tschüss!
