Category: Swiss walks
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The EV Habit to Pick Up
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s a very easy habit to pick up, once you find an affordable EV. The EV habit makes tremendous sense. When I learned to drive petrol was about 1.21 CHF per litre, and when I was driving the most it went to about 1.71 CHF per litre. Recently, due to recent electoral…
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Lovely Rain for More Than Five Minutes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time in months it is raining properly. We don’t have torrential rain, and we don’t have drizzle. We have proper rain. Proper river filling rain. Proper lake filling rain. It’s the type of rain that falls and hydrates the soil, the planets, the lakes and more. It’s the…
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The Summer That Keeps Going
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccording to MétéoSwiss, as the app is called, if you have your iPhone in English, it is currently 34°c in Nyon, that 16°c hotter than the norm for this time of year. After the summer of heat waves the heat persists at least until the anticipated storms this evening. The storms, yet…
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Wake Up and Run at an Ambitious Pace
Reading Time: 2 minutesI woke early on Friday to go for a run. From 5am onwards people start to gather and at around 5:15 there is a quick warmup and at 05:30 the run begins. The run is without a timer so this isn’t a race. It is a persona challenge instead. I was right…
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The Squandered Whatsapp Community Buildup
Reading Time: 3 minutesI love to be part of online communities that also meet in the physical world on a regular basis. I enjoyed tuttle meetups, seesmeetups and more. I also really enjoyed when running and cycling groups have whatsapp channels where we can chat. The reason for this is simple. There are five to…
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The Summer That Never Left and Uninvited Flies
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I went out for the entire day and when I came home I had a swarm of flies sitting by the velux, two days in a row. The buzzing was loud. It’s a good thing that I am not squeamish about flies because this was the stuff of nightmares. This summer…
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Running from Bassins to Nyon Along the Toblerones
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I ran twice the distance I usually run during a social run. As a group we ran from Bassins to Nyon via at least part of the Toblerone trail. We had aimed to run along the entire trail but we missed a turn near the top and ended up following the…
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Navigating with the Garmin Explore 2
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are four types of ride. The first is a solo ride, where you ride where the wind takes you. The second is a solo ride where you draw a route on a GPS and then go out and explore. The third is a group ride where someone draws a map and…
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A Summer of Irregular Cycling
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe cycling season is almost over and this year I barely cycled for three reasons. The first of these reasons is that during the cycling doldrums I took up running. The second reason is that the cycling group that I very often cycled with stopped organising such regular rides and the third…
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Knackered Wake Up and Run
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night, before going to sleep I had a thought. If the meeting time is 05:15 then I can’t wake at 4am as planned, I need to wake half an hour earlier, to be there in time for the warm up, and possibly earlier to pick up the running stuff. In the…