After a few runs in November, I decided to give something back and volunteer at the Parkrun. I plucked up the courage and wrote a letter asking if I could be a photographer at this wonderful event. The reply was brief: ‘We’ve scheduled you for Saturday; be here twenty minutes early.’ I charged my batteries, …
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parkrun
Today I was part of something big. Something unexpected for me, but from another side, so natural, what I still can’t believe, what I didn’t know about it, nothing, till last month. I’m talking about parkrun – it starts every Saturday at 9 a.m. (some places have multiple days/other times) around the globe for more …
Vienna Night Run 2025 report
My first 5 km under 25 minutes. I had wanted to run in this event for a very long time. I registered for my first attempt in 2020, but then COVID hit, and instead of a long-sleeved T-shirt, they gave us bandanas; and instead of running around the Vienna Ring, they just asked us to …
Viola Run 2025
I hadn’t planned on participating in this race. Firstly, I’m not a big football fan. Secondly, even a 45-minute race, let alone a 90-minute one, seemed too long to me at the time.But first things first. This race is aimed at football fans, particularly those of Austria Vienna Football Club, also known as the Viola. …
Unexpected effects of the gym
Two years ago, when I first got interested in the gym, I spent the first few months just trying out different machines, afraid to venture into the free weights area. Three months later, after watching another YouTube video on how to structure workouts properly and downloading an app with several ready-made workouts, I decided to …
Seestadt Lauf 2025 (WE&ME/CFS Charity run) report
As I wrote last time, I started training for a race. I talked about it with a co-worker on Monday, and he said, ‘Would you like to participate in a charity race on Saturday?’ And for some reason, I replied, ‘Yes, of course!’ Well, it would be interesting to conduct a ‘test’ and find out …
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Fitness tracking
For many years, I have been using a MiBand (1, 2, and then 4) fitness tracker. It helped me to switch my sleeping routine from going to sleep at 2 a.m. to waking up at 4:30 a.m., tracking my steps and trying to get my target every day, and crazy useful phone notifications, weather, music …
quarter of an hour
I haven’t posted anything here in over two years. Crazy. Why? I wasn’t working on any interesting electronics projects at home during that time and focused on other activities. Mainly going to the gym. Oh yes, I’ve made visible progress here, and I’ve doubled my weights. Finally, I understood that I need not only cycling …
Meh
I wanted to write something here weekly. But some last months I just… I enjoy my life. Finally new project at work, I started to commute by bike to work (through the empty morning Vienna, really cool (just look at the photos below))! I got sick for some days. Visited “sportive day” at the school. …
What a week!
I finally have done some CNC-cutting and Laser-cutting in makeraustria.at So a great place for dusty and also fine projects! I really want to do some woodworking here! And watched Starship launch, live. So an amazing view, and amazing commentary from EverydayAstronaut. I’m excited to see the next Starship launch as soon as Stage 0 …