Richard's blog

Category: Switzerland

  • Feeding the Seagulls

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA woman feeding seagulls by the sea.

  • Playing With Garmin Coach

    Playing With Garmin Coach

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I began playing with Garmin Coach. I decided to try one of the running programs. It’s the first of January, first day of the year, and I have already been for two walks and a run. The run was a calibration run so I ran too fast and too hard so…

  • Running Around in Loops

    Running Around in Loops

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the last week or two I decided to run and to swim. These are two sports that are easy to do if you have access either to a pool, or the right shoes. Swimming was in 14°c water for 17 and ten minutes. The first time my hands and feet were…

  • StepsApp

    StepsApp

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking and taking steps could be seen as boring. It’s something we do every day, without thinking about it. At conferences we can easily take 20,000 steps a day, when we’re standing for the entire day, with barely any opportunities, or need to sit, except when eating or getting from A to…

  • By The Sea

    By The Sea

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes we walk by the sea, after spending months by a big lake. Living by a lake, and the sea are similar.

  • Seaside walk

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  • Nervous Energy

    Nervous Energy

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t know whether I’m nervous or anxious about driving from 11-13 hours almost non stop tomorrow. In the past I have driven from Switzerland to Spain, without stopping. In the past we had to stop to refuel but not anymore, not with modern cars. We have to stop for toilet breaks…

  • Walking Into Heavy Rain

    Walking Into Heavy Rain

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes you end up walking into heavy rain. That’s what I did today. I looked at the weather and because it was meant to get better over the coming days I assumed that this evening it would get better. Instead, as I walked it started to rain a little more, and then…

  • The Casio GBD-200-1

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Casio GBD-200-1 and similar watches is a watch that counts steps and tracks runs. It communicates with the Casio Move app to provide you with a log of your steps, runs and progress. From what I gather it uses the phone to plot the GPS points of your run. No HR…

  • Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

    Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you considered brushing shoes and mindfulness? I ask because as I have played with the brush, to clear dirty mud off my shoes I have noticed that this is a time consuming task that always takes several minutes, if not half an hour to complete. People stigmatise leaving a muddy trail…