February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Finally fixed!
Garmin has finally fixed the super annoying bug on Garmin Connect where (in the “reports” tab) workouts would show up only under, e.g., “Street Running”, but not under “Running”, which logically is a superset of “Street Running”. Thanks! Now I can bury my plans to start a super sophisticated Excel sheet to keep track of that stuff.
As always, they...
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November 2011
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26.2 Miles, 46 Sketches - NYTimes.com →
This guy has been live drawing and tweeting his NYC Marathon experience. Very funny!
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NYC marathon, evening before
There’s two neat piles on my suitcase: one in the official UPS clear bag with the stuff I’ll get back after finishing, one with my clothes for the race and the hobo outfit to toss away just before the start.
My main meals the last few days consisted of pasta.
I’m experiencing the taper induced weird pain here and there. What’s up with my foot? Can this be all mental?
For...
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Üetliberglauf 2011 – 14 km
At the end of training week number five for New York, I replaced the speed work with Üetliberglauf, the last in the 2011 ZüriLaufCup series. I already had my six results, it was not possible for me to advance in the overall ranking and I could not be passed either, so it was just for the sake of it.
Because I live rather close, I could run to the start; I was a bit late and had yet to collect my...
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WatchFinisher clip from Hallwilerseelauf. I’m always afraid to lose time by slowing down too early! Why do people stop directly after the timing mat anyway… very dangerous! ;)
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Hallwilerseelauf 2011 – Half marathon
I’m already in New York for the marathon on Sunday, but there are still two race reports to write! My head will probably explode if I try to keep all the memories inside, so I better get started.
Hallwilerseelauf is a half marathon I did last year already, where I improved my PB from 1:29:59 to 1:27:21. This year, I came from a 1:25:02 at Greifenseelauf, but had a solid four weeks of NYC...
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"Want some of my muscles?"
That’s what the elder man with crutches said when I passed him on my mini run (warm-up, 15 minutes marathon pace, cool down) today. I take it that I now have the physique of an east African elite distance runner (think Gebrselassie), so people want to feed me (or give me some of their muscles).
Or he was just crazy.
Or he said something else.
Oh, and there was a guy asking for change...
October 2011
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Addendum
I forgot something extremely important in the race report about Pfäffikerseelauf. I have finally managed to win my virtual “Benjamin vs. The Women” race, by a full four seconds!
Too bad it was really virtual because the women started one hour before my wave. Doesn’t really count then, does it?
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Pfäffikerseelauf 2011 – 12.3 km
I started my New York marathon specific training two weeks ago. I follow a neat plan for triathletes that assumes you did train during all of the season and want to finish with a fall marathon (exactly for me thus). It’s just seven weeks, with three weeks build, one rest week, two weeks build and one taper. The magic (and lazy) thing about the plan is that the long long runs are at most two...
September 2011
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WatchThere was a camera filming everybody’s finish at Greifenseelauf, here’s mine. Not too spectacular, sorry!
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Greifenseelauf 2011 – Half marathon
To celebrate the end of my pre NYC marathon training, I ran Greifenseelauf one week ago, one of the biggest half marathons in Switzerlands. It was already the fourth time I ran it; the only race I’ve done more often is the SOLA relay (nine times).
Even though racers were supposed to collect their number two hours before the start, it was no problem to get it later. Everything was well...
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Tägi Tri 2011 – Sprint distance triathlon
To round off my 2011 triathlon season, I started at the Tägi Tri sprint triathlon about ten days ago. The 2010 edition of this race was my first triathlon ever (including getting lost on the bike), so I was curious to see how I would have improved in the meantime.
My start was at 10:30, so without getting up at an ungodly time I managed to get to Wettingen around 08:15. My trusty (upgraded) bike...
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WatchAwesome footage from the Geneva triathlon
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Is It Necessary To Withdraw From Daily Coffee? –... →
Good news for coffee drinkers: in a study, the performance in a 60 minutes cycling time trial was compared between two groups, one of which had undergone caffeine withdrawal for a few days, while the other hadn’t. Just before the time trial, half of each group was given caffeine, the other half a placebo, resulting in four groups (withdrawal/caffeine, withdrawal/placebo, no...
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On Cloudsurfer study
In the beginning of 2011, I participated in a study for the “On Cloudsurfer” shoe, where their shoe was compared to the old shoes of the participants, from a physiological and a biomechanical point of view. I wrote about it here, about the first (maximum effort test) here, then a step test with my old shoe here and finally with the Cloudsurfer here.
I got the results a long time ago...
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Rütilauf 2011 – 11.3 km
After a break of several weeks, the ZüriLaufCup series continued with the first of its four autumns races, Rütilauf, last Sunday. I decided to participate; it was my 8th ZLC race of this year, and because only the top six results count for the overall ranking, I would have to perform (relatively) better than in two other races to earn some points.
It was a very hot day, the hottest since decades...
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Uster Triathlon 2011 – Olympic distance triathlon
On Sunday, I did my second ever olympic distance triathlon. This time around, it was the one in Uster; it doubled as the Swiss Championships.
In the days leading to the race, a heat wave hit Switzerland and I was watching the lake temperature very closely, hoping it would be less than 22 °C on race day so we could wear wetsuits. Well.
On Sunday morning, I took a reasonably early train to...