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First marathon, check. Next day hobbled, check. Worth it, check.

I was too tired yesterday afternoon to post about my first marathon success. I should start with the good news that I finished, without stopping or walking at all, with a time of 4h27m  for 42.195km/26.2miles. I’m really proud of the fact that I finished without walking at all, even though I was slower than […]

Those training materials are useful after all

Training, and the accompanying cold took me down hard last week, much harder than I expected when I felt the first tickle in my throat last Tuesday. I am finally feeling a bit of relief and I can actually imagine feeling like myself again with my energy back, but I’m not feeling enough relief and […]

Visit to Oaxaca – Puppies and Tlayudas, but separate.

When I received a last-minute invitation to Oaxaca last week, it took me a few hours to accept, because I was supposed to go work with the bees on Saturday. However, it was a long weekend because of the independence day holiday on Friday, and this was too good of an opportunity to pass up. […]

Vacation: up the coast to the boulders and forest we go

I’m just back from an amazing, and as-warned much to short visit to California to see my novio. Sigh. And the Mexican customs confiscated the delicious salami that I was bringing back. I’m grumpy to be back. I’m sure my mood will improve once I go for a run. Except for the fact that I […]

Just the start

Weekends may only be 2 days long, but Saturday was a great start to this one. I had a short, but nice run in the morning followed by many hours of bouldering in Bernal. More climbing is planned for today. I know it was a good day of climbing yesterday, because my fingers are a […]

Take 2: Camping and Climbing

This time the plan was camp, climb, fiesta, maybe more climbing. However, looking back to Friday, my stomach was already a bit off. The (nearly) 3-hour run on Friday probably didn’t help. In fact, it kind of destroyed me. Maybe an ominous portent for Saturday, I had no energy to post about my success for […]

Are there circus groupies?

The 4th annual festival of alternative arts (Festival Siguientescena 2011) in town did not disappoint last week. Consisting of “unconventional theater, dance, and circus” performances, the general quality of the talent was extremely high. Full of great music, dance, and people doing generally crazy things with their bodies, these types of performances are some of my […]

We’re going to need a bigger site.

Actually, that’s not true because there was plenty more distance to run, if I had been able to. As it was, I made it 2 hours and 5 minutes, instead of my intended 2h30m. Still, it was the longest run that I have ever done. If only we had been able to get that extra […]

The bee’s knees

Apiculture has been a dream hobby of mine now for many years. I’m just fascinated by it. As far as dream hobbies go, I always felt that this one was rather realistic. However, still a little tricky to get into – not the type of thing I wanted to just read about and then buy my […]

This had me wondering

And I was a bit disturbed. How and why was this search term what led someone to my blog? I don’t know why it took me so long to turn to Google Analytics for the answer, but I finally did yesterday. Then, I geeked out on my numbers for an hour, because the custom reports […]

The idea was climb, camp, climb…

It started with a afternoon of climbing on Saturday. I lead three really nice routes and had no falls. The camping followed on Saturday evening, and was going very well with one of my favorite combos: red wine, cheese, and bread. There was no rain, no mosquitos, a nice fire, and then whiskey. The final combination […]