Oook!

I am feeling healthy again and pondering if the brown water that came out of my tap on Thursday had anything to do with my sickness. Still some of you might think that I am not quite sane because I just came back from a run at 5am after having worked all night. Anyways, I actually saw a lot more people out there than I expected. Interestingly, all guys seemed to be on their way home, while all females seemed to up for an early start into the day.

First guy that I saw was walking around with a beer bottle in this hand and even though we are in Germany, it did not seem to be his breakfast. Oh and just for the record: he did not seem to be a student. However the second guy that I met seemed to be one. And seeing me jogging at this early however was obviously not fitting into his concept of the world. He kinda looked surprised, confused and disturbed at the same time.

I ran across the Österberg-hill, saw the sky turning reddish over Lustenau as the sun was rising to start the day. At the bottom of this hill is a small stable where sheep are being kept that are usually used as biological lawnmowers. And in front the stable two students, with beer enjoying the sight and maybe a talk with these animals. One of those two was in a small cart with blankets being pulled home by his friend. And both were having a good time.

Next I ran along the Neckar-river and by the time I reached my turnaround-point the sun had risen and I could see the mosquitoes dancing in the light. Nice to watch as long as the sun is not shining directly into your eyes. Good thing I had the sun no in my back and the moon up front to run to. On the way back, I paused a little on the Österberg again, watching the morning dew being warmed by the sun and rising up as mist over the trees.

Next time I should bring a camera to capture the people and the scenery. Too bad my only one is too big for that.

Sleeping time.

This weekend is the weekend for the newies in AIESEC. Just like the last two years, we are having this conference at the place where I study. But this time, I am really really only involved for the fun of it. no responsibility, only for emergencies (Where is a copymachine, How do we get access to the balcony, we kinda kicked the ball up there...). And besides enjoing the chats with friends that I have not seen for a while, I am sitting in my office and finish up some work.

And I went jogging again, roughly 5 km, but the up and downs of the track and my lack of training proved to be challenging enough. Luckily there is a shower here hidden at my faculty. And it is even better in quality than the one at the place where I stay. After after having played some volleyball in the almost too warm sun, I might consider taking another shower

Been jogging again early in the morning. Wonder if I can make a habit out of this instead of sleeping in all the time (which I really like to do). But no other choice today, already at 8am is was getting warm and today will be much hotter... 30+°C...

Does anyone got a spare aircon?

Went jogging for the first time by myself. At 6am after having worked all night long. Only saw one other other guy jogging.

So far I have been jogging twice a week, each time at least 4km and I want to keep it to that minimum. Actually I started to think about jogging at least 3 times a week, but then today was the first day where I actually decided to not jog. Being lazy, needing to catch up with sleep and having cold and rainy weather was enough to give me an excuse to stay inside. Let's hope that this is not the beginning of finding more and more excuses to not jog. But it makes me think: If I really get into running frequently, how to keep on doing it during winter time? I do not wanna fork out money for gyms...

One thing that I do is to track and log the routes that I have been running on a digital map: It feels good to see how much I can actually cover (it looks impressive to me, although more seasoned runners are probably even better). If keep on doing this, I probably should use colorcoding to track my progress over the years (well, let's see if I can keep up with it for more than a year first...)

On little souvenir that we brought home from jogging one day was a tick. Apparently it had not bitten yet, did not look like it got to suck any blood, but it made me think getting incoculation as they can transfer some nasty stuff.

Finally I started to jog again. Last summer I was finally jogging for the first time a few times, then the winter came, then I went to Singapore (where I did not manage to run for a number of good excuses...) and now this time I feel I am more determined to do something for my health. Still I prefer not to jog alone, it is more motivating to do it together and harder for me to find excuses not to jog. Last wednesday, it was the second time this year, but the track where I usually was running together Ying was used by a larger number of students practising all kinds of track and field athletics. So we continued to run towards the Neckar-river and see where it would take us. After running for about 4km, it became more and more a stop-n-walk-n-runagain, but still I was surprised that I could last that long, on the track, I usually have to take an earlier break and walk for a while. Then somehow we decided to find the way up to the Sand, where I study and going uphill there was even walking only quite exertive. Then heading (walking) home, we all in all covered about 7,7km.

Still looking for other people to drag me along - I am still lacking the willpower to go the distance myself and yet I do not have this legendary urge to run.