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 …
Category Archives: running
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. …
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 …