Just keep showing up!
Given the beautiful weather, we decided to rent a car for three days to visit some historical sites and do some hiking. On Friday, we took my parents to see the famous abbey library in Saint Gall. It’s a World Heritage Site and one of the most important monastic libraries in the world. It contains…
My rehab runs are going well. Last week, I logged 27k (17 miles). My longest run was 9k and I included walking breaks every 2k…
On Sunday, I ran 2.5 kilometres! Painfree! Without any walking breaks! I could have run longer, but I didn’t want to overdo it. We got…
“Oh, but that’s so boring!” my friend Janine said. We were out on our mountain bikes and I had just told her that I was…
First, an injury update: I managed to run TWO rounds on the track yesterday, each 400m. I felt no pain in my quad, so I…
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations When injured, I have two strategies…
Yesterday’s physiotherapy session with Adriano was interesting: he first made me run on the treadmill for 4 minutes and then he gave my left quad…
I haven’t been running since 4 July due to pain in my left quad and hip. Over time, the hip pain disappeared. I tried to…
Last weekend, I would have participated in the 51k Eiger Ultra Trail in Grindelwald, a beautiful little village in the Swiss mountains. When the race…
My left hip is still a bit iffy, so I decided to take two weeks off from running and dedicate myself fully to hiking and…