Duivelse Uitdaging #1 and #2

If you dance with the devil you should not be afraid to burn your fingers

The Devil and someone else

This was #1:

51 days for 666 km

This was #2:

44 days for 666 km

In total I lost 79 days of my life to this bullshit. 79 days for 1332 km means 16.86 km/d. Not too bad at all. Although it was sometimes fun and I am easily motivated by stupid things it was also a challenge. I learned the hard way what it means to just ignore all arguments and just get things done. No matter what nice things could have been the alternatives. No matter how much I hated it sometimes to not just run as long as I wanted but to run as long as it was needed to cross out the next distance of that funny lists. I encountered it with a new mental strategy. You start a run of lets say 33.30 km and you force yourself to think of something nice the first 28 km of the run. By that you really forget that you are running and by this basically just “wait” until its over. To endure is a big part of endurance. And this is no coincidence. The last 5 km you enjoy your short run. Now I am afraid of that point in future I will use this strategy in a real race.

But lets forget about this. Thanks Maarten for the fun. Enough is enough and done is done. I am so tired of checking an Excel sheet before I start a run, so tired of starting the run with putting a distance goal on the watch (does it even works without entering something there?) and so tired of not being “allowed” to just run as long as I want. It was a good mental exercise but it is time to say goodbye.

I am going back to where I belong. Into the woods, into the void and into the endlessness. Hoping to meet a few people out there to run some tracks together and to come back destroyed but with tons of nice stories to tell.

Stop. That. Distancing.

***Please don’t get me wrong: stay safe, go outside, don’t touch each other, keep 1.5 m distance and stay Corona-negative!***

Please? Asking for my friends. Everyone is now talking about distance – its everywhere in the news. Let me tell you: this is not good for my friends. They have been ok in the past and before this virus started. A bunch of totally normal LSD (Long Slow Distances) runners. But now? They are being pushed from all that distance-talking:

  • they create sheet after sheet full of nonsense running challenges – soon they will be lost in these columns and rows forever
  • they are being asked by their family members: who are you and what´s that smell?
  • some of them even started to run in loops again and again
  • some consider LSD is not enough and go for long-distance-inline-skating or other extreme sports
  • some wake up in the morning and think it is a normal thing to start the a day with a marathon
  • some open their weekly Strava stats and wonder why this number has 3 digits and a 2 in the front
  • some even say they are haunted by the Devil himself

Please. Give them the races back. And the group runs. The above simply can’t be the new normal – my friends will not be able to stop running soon. Forever running – imagine. No one wants that. This is something for the professionals.

Enough of funny challenges – enough of entering numbers in sheets. Where are the races/runs that punch us in the faces and allow us to rest the week before (and call it tapering) and the weeks after (and call it resting)? We need them back! ASAP!

Some of my friends would – as a first step – also being ok with banning all Germans from running. But let’s ignore them for now. Some are also asking to get the winter back. Waist-deep ice-cold water, snow and mud is what they want. Let’s ignore those too for now.

When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.
And so, you just ran?
Yeah.

Forrest Gump

Bürogespräche – Eindrücke aus dem Home-Office-Alltag

Das Home-Office hat den schönen Vorteil, dass einige Eindrücke aus dem Büro-Alltag festgehalten werden können; wie zum Beispiel, wenn wir uns darüber austauschen, wie wir mit den Challenges umgehen, die uns unsere Mitmenschen stellen. Hier ein kleiner Schnipsel zum Corona Skyrun des Schinders:

Des Schinders Skyrun

Danke an den Schinder für diese daheim ausführbare Challenge. Sie bietet 1364 kleine Perspektivwechsel am Tag und hat den schönen Vorteil, dass ich sie durchführen kann, ohne mir in den anderen Challenges da draußen zu viel Freude vorwegzunehmen.

Coronavirus Challenges

Duivelse Uitdaging by Marek Vis:

Start: 21 maart 2020
Finish: 19 mei 2020

  • 30 verschillende afstanden met een totaal afstand van 666k dienen gelopen te worden op 30 verschillende dagen binnen 60 dagen.
  • Maximaal 1 afstand per dag telt, dus je bent op zijn vroegst in 30 dagen klaar
  • De afstand hoeft niet exact gelopen te worden, meer mag ook, minder uiteraard niet
  • De afstanden mogen in willekeurige volgorde gelopen worden
  • Het dient een doorlopende activiteit te zijn op een dag
  • Het dient een loop activiteit zijn, hardlopen, rennen, hiken, wandelen, nordicwalking, het mag allemaal
  • Google Tabelle
001007013019040
002008014020045
003009015021050
004010016025060
005011017030070
006012018035080
0
Done. 51 days for 666 km. Nice idea – required some mental strength at the end to get it done.

Duivelse Uitdaging #2 by Marek Vis:

  • Wederom 666k
  • Start data (wordt mogelijk nog uitgebreid) 25 april, 2 mei, 9 mei, 16 mei, 23 mei, 30 mei
  • Elke kleur staat voor een reeks
  • Elke reeks dien je in aaneengesloten dagen te lopen (dag is van 0.00 – 23.59)
  • Als een reeks onderbroken wordt door een rustdag, telt deze niet mee en vervallen de eerdere dagen van de reeks
  • Per dag, telt er maximaal 1 activiteit. Elke afstand mag maximaal uit 1 activiteit bestaan
  • De reeks ‘3x Dubbel’ dient gelopen te worden in de volgorde 6.66, 13.32, 26.64, 53.28- De volgorde van de reeksen mag je zelf bepalen
  • Google Tabelle
6.666.666.666.666.666.666.66
13.3213.3213.3213.3213.32
19.9819.9819.9819.9819.98
26.6426.6426.6426.64
6.6613.3226.6453.28
33.3033.3033.30
39.9639.96
66.60
Done. 44 days for 666 km. Stupid. Really.

Höhenmeter-Challenge: Schinder-Trail Corona SkyRun 66.700 HM in 111 Tagen

Start: 23.03.2020
Finish: 11.07.2020
Auswertung

WhoDoneTodo
Pfadsucher3633 HM63067 HM
VPSucher4244 SHM62456 SHM