2 Nov
When All Hallows’/All Saints’ gives a longer weekend, go for a quick change of scenery – like to the Alps. With a lull in between rather worse weather, head up a mountain. Or, of course, get outdoors wherever you are. Remember, you can even use the city to your sports adventure advantage ;) So, this [...]
2 Nov
The Vienna Circle, as my regular readers (if such a species exists) would know, is my first bigger step towards self-made adventures. The usual way to get known as a runner, of course, is to simply train and train harder, participate in established races, and win them. It’s unlikely I’d ever win, though – and [...]
26 Oct
On the move today, if things go according to plan, on another attempt at circling all around Vienna in a day… For that occasion, a few other pieces of photography (and slight photoshopping) of mine, combining historic and modern views of a few city landmarks.
10 Oct
This season of running events came towards a conclusion as planned, after all, with the Wachau-Marathon on September 16. Good thing I did, after all, go there: For one, the time of the Schneeberg Trail run which I thought I’d do instead saw me struggle against a cold which had me decide to better not [...]
3 Sep
Saturday, August 25 saw me at the mountain marathon in and around Linz (Linzer Bergmarathon). It brought to a close the mountain marathon cup in Upper Austria, the set of three mountain ultramarathons I participated in this summer – and where Paul Auster describes his memoir as working on a “phenomenology of breathing,” it seems [...]
Between "work" and "life," "humanity" and "nature," "us" and "them," we are ever more like tourists just visiting this world - and indeed this one life we have for sure.
High time we come to be at home.
…, Or: The Best Habit Is a Tool Convenience. It is our time’s great guideline. And it’s what makes us live ever more on this world, like tourists just visiting, rather than truly at home in this world. Even “lifehackers,” who seem the best example of people who still want to learn more when they [...]
“I’m not impressed.” It is easily the ugliest modern attitude that gets expressed by this phrase. As an attempt at coolness and aloofness that does not result in any of the freedom that a certain distance from the humdrum world could provide, it is nothing but proving that you are not really engaged in this [...]
The age of adventure, the era of explorers – it all seems a thing of the past. Now, the best you can do is action sports and extreme travel – but there’s a big difference: The earlier explorers didn’t quite know what they were getting themselves into, and went to the white spots on the [...]
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