with regard to my last post. This year we are only at May, and I have already run on at least three occasions, not counting to catch trains.

Today I ran, again. Possibly this is only the second time in 2015.

This weekend we all zipped off to Schleswig-Holstein for the Lauf zwischen den Meeren, a hundred-km relay for teams of ten, running from the North Sea to the Baltic. Apart from some organisational weaknesses, which led to a lot of time sitting on buses or waiting around, this was a fun weekend. Somehow I ended up assigned to the shortest leg, at 8. ( Read more... )

On Saturday night I ran the 10k CityNacht here in 56:05. The winner took 29:07, so I was less than half as slow. But I'm extremely happy with this, having not run in about two months, other than two casual runs on Tuesday and Thursday last week ( Read more... )

There will be other days. Today is half-marathon day, it's sunny and 16 degrees. Perfect, after these last icy months. And I'm not running. On Thursday evening I had a fine half-hour run, which, multiplying by four, would have brought me home just inside two hours. But on Friday I had a temperature, headache, and muscle aches in my legs so that I ( Read more... )

Some recent runs:

1. Saturday - Same long run along the lake as the last two Saturdays, modulo a few detours to attempt to avoid nasty ice. I've started to recognise a few regulars. It was above freezing enough last week to melt lots of snow on pathways to slush, but not for long enough for it to drain away, so this had turned back to frozen former ( Read more... )

( Today was a wonderful, boring run. )

I have signed up for the Berlin half marathon in April. I'm hoping for better conditions than this.

Last week I finally felt sufficiently over a nasty cold to think about running again. I made it out the door twice, once in the dark, once in daylight, and over snow and ice both times. This is very different from running in summer: I have to keep concentrating on where I'm putting my feet, as I will stumble and hurt something otherwise. I can't ( Read more... )

T. surprised me in February with the announcement that she wanted to enter the Berlin Half-Marathon.
( (Mostly boring running stuff.) )