Category: Sport

  • News!

    Today there is some news!!

    First of all: I’m officially blue…..unfortunately I had to delete the pictures of me because they all looked stupid…but I have a picture of the final result:

     

    tool shed after my paint job 🙂
    And of course I got lots of paint on my previously clean body, too 🙂 Ha, ha,… 🙂
     
     
    THEN: 
     
    I finally got the stuff and the number for the bike marathon in Daun….. and it’s only 10 days to go!!!!!
     
     

    And my body is already preparing for this event, too – unfortunately without asking permission.
    I try to convince myself that this is some self-cleaning function I haven’t been aware of until now:
    for the last two days everything I’ve been eating turns into liquid…..really strange….and NO, it’s not nerves – not yet :-P. It might be the water I drank from a stream three days ago but I refuse to believe that our clean German stream water is not drinkable!!!
    So, I stick with the self-cleaning theory and hope that my body is clean enough soon. I obviously don’t need any more weight reduction otherwise I’m going to be blown off my bike by the start signal next week.

    This is what hopefully helps to get my body back on track:

    I haven’t tried that stuff before, therefore: keep your fingers crossed!!!

  • News?

    This was my second day at home…my room looks like some world traveller has just dropped their belongings. I hate it but I also don’t want to unpack thoroughly since I don’t intend staying for too long….or at least I hope so.

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  • 6 months later….

    ….wow, it’s already middle auf August but nothing much has changed yet.
    I guess due to summer vacation there are not much offers at the job market right now. I sent out another application the day before yesterday but that’s about it.

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  • 11th November: Port Alberni: Cyclocross

    11th November: Port Alberni: Cyclocross

    This morning when I looked out the window, it was raining, and when I looked out the door, it was raining, but not just a little, it was pouring. So much so that I had already decided to skip the cyclocross and return the bike.
    Then I remembered that I could also return the soccer shoes I bought for rugby, so I cleaned them first.
    When I was done, it had stopped raining. Great!

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  • 9th – 12th October: Saint John

    9th – 12th October: Saint John

    Being on the road again felt awkward at the beginning but for my first stop at the Newman House in Saint John everything was organized: the taxi was ordered (and cancelled again after Saskia and Claude insisted on bringing me to the ferry), the hostel was booked and I even arranged that Sharon, the hostel owner, picked me up at the ferry.

    St. John – the city of Adventurers
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  • 3rd – 9th August: Ucluelet: Surfing on the grey side of life

    3rd – 9th August: Ucluelet: Surfing on the grey side of life

    After almost two weeks of beach life (not counting the time in Kelowna), it was time for a change.

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  • 22nd July – 3rd August: Vancouver, Jericho Beach, Part I

    22nd July – 3rd August: Vancouver, Jericho Beach, Part I

    Vancouver – a city that is always highly recommended.

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  • 14th-22nd July: Kelowna, my love :-)

    14th-22nd July: Kelowna, my love 🙂

    At around 8 p.m., we arrived in Kelowna on the Greyhound bus—and it was still hot, around 26°C, which felt completely unfamiliar after a day at around freezing.

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  • 11th July: Banff – Cycling on Mt.Norquay (2522 m)

    11th July: Banff – Cycling on Mt.Norquay (2522 m)

    I know, I know, I’m not very reliable and haven’t written for a long time. But to make a long story short: I’m in Banff now, in the middle of Banff National Park. I’m good but tired and there are mountains all around me.

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  • 23rd – 27th June: Thunder Bay

    23rd – 27th June: Thunder Bay

    Tired as I was I looked around for a regular bus stop at the bus station which seemed to be in the middle of an industrial area. Luckily it was just in front of the Greyhound Building and a nice old guy told me that this would also be the right stop for the busses into town. And we only had to wait 10 minutes or so.
    When I told the bus driver the name of the hostel I was heading to, he told me at once he’d tell me where to get off.
    Unfortunately, he didn’t really know where I was going to because he got it mixed up with the second hostel in Thunder Bay. So, when we waited at the Central Bus station a lady approached me to tell me I was on the wrong bus and I had to go back the same way.
    Thanks to the nice driver on the next bus I didn’t have to pay a second time. He finally dropped me off on the right stop and from there it was only about 5 minute walk to the hostel…jippieh….

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