Monday Dec 31 |
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| Head up to Lenk and bring the backpacks to the hut. Aftewards do some 4 hours of hard skiing, mostly carving which is so much fun.
Spend New Year's Eve up in the hut and celebrate the New Year und endless stars and the Alps in front of our noses. We even had some little firworks. Then we watched the bigger fireworks down in Adelboden. A great way to start a new year! |
Sunday Dec 30 |
| Running 55:45 [3]9 km (6:12 / km) +250m 5:26 / km | |
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| A working day :-(. Run over lunch and go up to Ruedi's Hüttli. It had snowed overnight and trails were slippery. Temps around 36 degrees and balmy for the first time in 3 weeks!
34.31 up and 21.14 back |
Saturday Dec 29 |
| Running 37:42 [3]8 km (4:43 / km) | |
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| Run in Bern my regular short Dählhölzli - Aare - animal park-loop. Feel sluggish. Very cold and my muscles don't seem to want to work. |
Friday Dec 28 |
| Downhill skiing 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Ski with my brother and my little niece on Hasliberg. A leisurely day in beautiful sunshine! |
Thursday Dec 27 |
| Yoga 1:10:00 [1] | |
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| Teaching Fitness Yoga class, feels good after the festivities |
| Nordic Walking 1:00:00 [2]6 km (10:00 / km) | |
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| Going down the Aare to the Lake of Thun and the ruins of Wyssenau with my NW group. Crisp and cold.
Before, I was teaching a senior class, mostly weights.
A heavy day with teaching. |
Wednesday Dec 26 |
| Running 35:15 [3]8 km (4:24 / km) | |
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| Run in Bern my short Dählhölzli loop before preparing for the "feast" with Sandra and Marc, my brother Reto and my 7year-old niece.
Feel slow, but time seems not that bad. Cold again and as usual these last few weeks: grey and foggy in these lower elevations and blue and warm above in the mountains! |
Tuesday Dec 25 |
| Downhill skiing 3:00:00 [2] | |
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| Ski in Adelboden with my new RTC carving skis! This is "heaven"! I really get it and can carve with these skis! It feels almost addictive. We do some very hard skiing (for my feeling) and quads and knees are feeling it!
Beautiful blue sky and warmish! |
Monday Dec 24 |
| Running 45:06 [3]9 km (5:01 / km) +150m 4:38 / km | |
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| Busy day at work and teach class in the morning; go for a quick run; Gnometrail- Sheeptrail - Goldswil and back; feel very stressed and slow, but time is ok. |
| Strength 45:00 [3] | |
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| Teach a strength class with free weights; have lots of people in class as this is the only one I am offering during the Holidays :-) |
Sunday Dec 23 |
| Running 1:05:20 [3]11 km (5:56 / km) | |
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| Run in Bern upper trails to Muribad and along the Aare back; feel like for the first time in a while that I can push again and feels like running and not jogging! 32.37 turnaround, 32.41 back. |
Saturday Dec 22 |
| Running 35:01 [3]9.0 mi (3:53 / mi) | |
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| run quickly my short Dählhölzli loop, feel ok, somewhat stressed with all the Christmas preparations. |
Friday Dec 14 |
| Running 57:17 [3]8 km (7:10 / km) +300m 6:02 / km | |
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| Run after lunch up to Ruedi's Hüttli into the snow and take the little trail back down; feel lethargic and moving very slowly; but beautiful day and great sunshine for a change!!! |
Thursday Dec 13 |
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Teaching good yoga class; felt less energetic, but we found a good flow. Lots of repetition and holding and strength. |
| Nordic Walking 1:10:00 [1]6 km (11:40 / km) | |
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| Beautiful late afternoon with my group; to animal park, Goldswil, high train bridge. |
Wednesday Dec 12 |
| Running 58:22 [3]12 km (4:52 / km) | |
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| Run with s.zimmermann late afternoon into the night. Grey day, not snowing anymore but trails are slippery. Run Lombach - Lake of Thun and back. Feel better than yesterday, still sore leg muscles.
29.50 all the way down, 27.52 back in the dark. |
| Strength 45:00 [2] | |
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| Teaching conditioning evening class with lots of leg exercises; still sore from Monday's class, but the stretching eases the tightness in the connective tissue a lot.
(I gave a private Yoga lesson at lunch, which felt very good.) |
Tuesday Dec 11 |
| Running 55:00 [3]11 km (5:00 / km) | |
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| (Forgot my watch, took the time with my cell phone!)
Running down the Aare to the Lake of Thun and the ruin of Wyssenau and back. Go by my house to empty the mailbox as I have not been home since Friday morning.
Sore leg muscles from yesterday's strength training. |
| Nordic Walking 1:10:00 [2]7 km (10:00 / km) | |
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| It is snowing and raining together and windy and awful and a day when one does not send any dog outside! But here they were, 3 people of my Nordic Walking group and so we went to Nordic Walk into the cold and wet night. Make a big, flat loop through the neighborhoods and all the way to the Lake of Thun and back up the Lombach. The scenery was actually quite pretty with the big, fat snowflakes falling and Christmas lights everywhere even a decorated and lighted tree in the woods!
But I came back with wet and very cold feet, lower legs and hands. |
Monday Dec 10 |
| Teaching classes 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Teaching 2 classes of core strength and some leg exercises. (Note from next day: feel those butt and leg exercises and have sore muscles!! The same goes for the arms and upper back! Those exercises were very potent :-)).
Eve going to a concert in Lucerne in the KKL (concert and congress center, incredibly beautiful building, worth going!) Stay overnight in Lucerne in the "sister hotel" of ours in the old section of Lucerne. Nice to escape once in a while the daily grind........ |
Sunday Dec 9 |
| Running 1:05:06 [3]12 km (5:26 / km) | |
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| Run in Bern through Dählhölzli woods up along Aare to Muribad and along the river back. It was amazing to see this fairly big river (like the Arkansas in Canon City, appr. 15 m across) to have risen by over a foot (ca 40 cm) overnight! I had run last night, and today over lunch. Incredible again the amount it must have rained and snowed in the mountains.
Note: slept 11 hours!! :-) |
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| C • Ahhh, but has it frozen ove... 2 |
Saturday Dec 8 |
| Running 36:06 [3]8 km (4:31 / km) | |
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| Do a quick run in Bern late afternoon, the same route as last Sunday. The first time since getting back, I feel stronger again. Maybe, the rest was good, after all? |
Friday Dec 7 |
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| Should I have put down 6 hours of being Santa's helper yesterday as training?? ;-) It was quite hard work, hauling his heavy bag and handing out tangerines and nuts and chocolates and standing, smiling for countless cameras from Japanese, Thailandese, Indians, etc. Also visited the hospital and had kids in the hotel kitchen baking goodies.
Well, I'm too tired today and definitely NOT motivated to head out into this grey, coldish and wet weather for a run. :-( |
Thursday Dec 6 |
| Yoga 1:00:00 [2] | |
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| Teaching Yoga feels good again as i haven't stretched or done anything of that sorts while on vacation. And my muscles and connective tissues just respond so well to the slow intense stretch of yoga.
Today, I will also "play" the companion of Santa Claus in the hotel and the hospital all afternoon and evening. December 6th is Santa Claus' Day in Switzerland, Germany, Holland and other countries. He visits kids all over with his companion and his donkey and brings nuts, tangerines and chocolate. I am substituting for somebody who cannot be this companion. I am curious, somewhat ambivalent about it, but we'll see. |
Wednesday Dec 5 |
| Running 45:41 [3]9 km (5:05 / km) +80m 4:52 / km | |
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| Sunshine at last!! Go for a lunch run and feel like a turtle :-(. Run Gnome-Sheeptrail and saw no gnome but 3 Chamois (Gämse) with a little one and saw the sheep :-). |
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| C • She's Back!!! 1 |
Tuesday Dec 4 |
| Nordic Walking 1:10:00 [2]6 km (11:40 / km) +120m 10:36 / km | |
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| Nice evening, nordic walking to Heimwehflueh and up Abendberg and back, of course, leading my group. |
Monday Dec 3 |
| Teaching classes 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Teach the 2 classes with core strength and have sore stomach muscles from it ;-). |
Sunday Dec 2 |
| Running 39:02 [3]8 km (4:53 / km) | |
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| First run again since getting back. Run in Dählhölzli and above Aare. See "my" 2 lynxes again :-) in the animal park. |
Saturday Dec 1 |
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| Work on Saturday just after getting back from vacation. Decorate the huge hotel lobby with Christmas scenes, a gingerbread house (2m high), Santa in a sleigh, several Christmas trees and the biggest, tallest one which is about 5 m high. Lots of fun :-).
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