Category: Switzerland
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The Overly Ambitious Running Pace
Reading Time: 2 minutesFriday I had two social runs, one pre-dawn, one, after sunset, and the next day I went for yet another social run. As if three social runs wasn’t enough pressure on my system I went to a MAS training session on Monday which was hard and then on Wednesday I had Garmin…
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Signy Centre and Cheap Charging
Reading Time: 2 minutesImagine, it’s Monday morning and people are rushing to work or to the shops to get food for the week ahead. You turn up early at the shopping centre. You see that all the chargers are free so you check the price. Thirty Three centimes per kilowatt hour. You see a fantastic…
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A Critical Look at the Apple Watch and Why Coros is a better Backup
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs an early adopter it makes perfect sense for me to have played with an Apple Watch but it doesn’t make sense that I would keep wearing it. The reason for it being absurd for me to wear an Apple watch is primarily that I managed to damage a screen on an…
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When a Garmin Forerunner 570 Crashes Mid Workout
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday the Garmin Forerunner 570 crashed mid-workout while doing MAS intervals at a critical moment. It crashed while I was running at 4:35 per kilometre so I couldn’t reboot the watch with ease and re-start the workout. I had to stop, type in the code, re-start the workout, and then start running…
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On Backing Up Photo Library Folders Rather than Photos
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, or even decades many of us backed photos up using Picasa, Flickr, iPhoto and other apps. We’d download photos from cameras and import them to these photo apps and we’d have a local library of all of our photos. With time our libraries grew so we backed up to the…
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On EVs that Phone Home Rather Than Sync Locally and Stable Immich
Reading Time: 2 minutesI noticed that when I park above ground in a zone with good mobile coverage the car sends its data to the Leapmotor app when parked. If I park in a basement where there is no cell service and when I park on the surface where there is no cell service then…
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Why I Quit Walking and Cycling in 2026
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe reason I quit walking and cycling, this year is the same. I don’t feel safe because of road works that aim to seperate cars from cyclists, without addressing the key issue of traffic density. Highlight: I cycled 2700km, ran 945km, hiked 89km and walked 890km this year. A year earlier I…
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Running With Groups and Fatigue
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is amusing. This morning I thought about skipping the 6am run when I woke at 4am. Within ten minutes I decided to suit up and go anyway. I felt cold when I stepped out of the car, but I also felt fatigue. I do not think that the fatigue came from…
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On Social Media and Positive Feedback Loops
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday, yet again, I deactivated my Facebook account. I kept seeing negative posts about Oxford Street being pedestrianised, and especially radicalising people into hating cyclists. I felt that I was absorbing and radiating that negativity as well. I didn’t like that I was being so negative about something that changes nothing in…
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Playing With the Old Garmin Instinct Solar Watch
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Garmin Instinct Solar is an excellent watch if you like to hike and walk, but falls short if you want more detailed stats when you’re running. It doesn’t have HRV monitoring, fatigue and other features. Years ago, when I was in Spain I was playing with the watch. I would leave…