Appearance money and event shirt

Today I got the first time my appearance money for a running event. 2000RMB just to show up here in Helong and running tomorrow a Halfmarathon. Flight tickets was 1600RMB so actually I made a 400RMB profit. Sounds not much but it means a lot for me. I already got today two more invitations to show up on marathon runs here …

Train Slower, Race Faster

It sounds strange, it is also not easy and you need a lot of discipline but it is true. Running slow makes you run faster. I ran the last 2 weeks around 200km and all in a slow speed. It was very boring and I thought I might be in a kind over over-training because I also was not in …

This week’s total

Just finished the last run for this week. Amazing 43°C hot today. I really like it hot but this is getting to much. Anyway, I finished this week with a total distance of 101km in a total duration of 9h:11m including 1 rest day. All in all I’m satisfied. No sore muscles, no blisters. Shinbone and knee was a bit …

The first post

Quite difficult to start a empty blog. But as I also put the running shoes on my feet 2 years ago for the first time and jumped into cold water, I also will write a blog post for the first time now. During my runs I have so many thoughts, questions and experiences which I like to share with others …