Tag: running

  • A Morning Run and the Ghost Platform

    A Morning Run and the Ghost Platform

    Reading Time: 2 minutesNormally I like to go for a run in the afternoon, after I have had a productive morning. This morning I went for a run first. This afternoon I have to go to an indoor meeting, which doesn’t fill me with euphoria. I feel an e-mail would achieve the same thing within…

  • The Morning Afternoon Run

    The Morning Afternoon Run

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday or recently I had a discussion about running. The discussion was about whether I have a favourite time of day to run and whether I can eat before a run and still run. The answer is that I’m flexible in the time at which I run. I can run as easily…

  • Learning to Look Down Rather Than Up with Tech and Climbing

    Learning to Look Down Rather Than Up with Tech and Climbing

    Reading Time: 3 minutesAll climbers are familiar with this. You’re on a climb or a via ferrata and you look up but you don’t see what to do so you feel stuck. As a result you try one hold, and then another, and then a third and eventually you stop. That’s when you remember to…

  • The Kindness of Drivers

    The Kindness of Drivers

    Reading Time: 1 minuteRecently I have been walking and running into and out of Nyon and in the process I have had to cross busy roads regularly and what has struck me recently, especially when running is that people stop to let me cross the road, even when they don’t need to. I really appreciate…

  • Incline Walking for People in a Flat Country

    Incline Walking for People in a Flat Country

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I followed a link where a writer wrote "My every-other-day workout is walking three miles, fast, on a high incline on the treadmill—often times with hand weights too." and I find it amusing. It’s amusing because in Switzerland, and especially in the old town of Geneva, Nyon, Lausanne, Neuchatel, Fribourg and…

  • Running to Prangins and Back to Nyon

    Running to Prangins and Back to Nyon

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday the Epix Gen 2 said that I should go on a 51 minute run so I did. I ran from Eysing to Prangins via the top of Nyon before running by the castle, down to the lake, and back along the lake road to Nyon. In the process I felt…

  • Running from Eysins to Prangins Via Nyon

    Running from Eysins to Prangins Via Nyon

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday my watch said that I should run for 36 minutes or so so I obeyed. As a result of running for 36 minutes I got to Prangins and made it part of the way back before stopping and walking. In the process I ran for 5.8 kilometres rather than 5 and…

  • Running Calmly

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWeeks ago I started running again, but this time my goal is to run calmly. By this I mean that I ran until I felt pain, and stopped, over and over, until finally I ran with Wake Up and Ran and covered 5km. Since then I have been running 5k consistently.…

  • The Post Cold Run

    The Post Cold Run

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSome people will see that it’s running, and that they are still recovering and think "I’m not running in that. I did and my "short run" project was changed to a full run. I had planned to run two to three kilometres but ran five instead. The Apple watch wasn’t happy, not…

  • Wake Up and Run Before the Sunrise in Nyon

    Wake Up and Run Before the Sunrise in Nyon

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I got up at 4am to go for a run with strangers in Nyon. The meeting time was 05:10 and the run/jog/walk began at 05:30. Before the run Activ Fitness gave us a warm up workout that I followed half-heartedly. I had already walked 3km so my body was warm.…