Category: Switzerland
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On Cancelled Sports Due to Heat but encouraged Noisy Entertainment
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the news they tell people over and over, “Don’t run in the heat” and don’t go out during the hottest part of the time” and yet they organise fan zones in Nyon, or other events in Asse and more. They tell us that we shouldn’t run, that we shouldn’t cycle but…
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The Subtle Art of Being a Morning Person During a Heatwave
Reading Time: 3 minutesI see news reports and articles that say “Don’t do sports during a heatwave”, which, to me is bad advice. It’s not bad advice to tell people not to push and overheat at the hottest point of the day. It is bad advice not to say “Try to run in the morning”…
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The Degraded Walking Habit
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor many years I went for an after lunch or after work walk. I would easily walk eight to ten kilometres per day. With road works in Nyon that have already lasted for many, many months, and that should last for another year, for several hundred meters of road my walking habit…
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Trail Running Near St-Cergue
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went trail running in the Jura near St-Cergue and I found the experience okay. I think that the group stopping regularly helped make this a relatively easy run despite the gradient. Cycling got me used to making hard efforts, not for seconds or minutes at a time but for an…
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Compostelle at the Open Air Cinema in Gland
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I went to the outdoor cinema again, this time to watch Compostelle. It’s a hiking trip movie. It’s a film that is centered of walking from point A to Point B, over a period of months. The three main characters are Fred, the adult ‘éducatrice’, Adam, the problem child, and…
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A Run and an Open Air Film Screening
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I went to Gland for a mid-afternoon run before watching Disclosure Day at an outdoor cinema. The run route took me along the Toblerones up to Vich, and then I turned East and ran along a road I often cycle along, before then heading back down, over the motorway, and…
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Cool Evenings and Air Conditioning
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is the idea that the way to fight against heat is to add air conditioning to every single building. This would be true, if we were in Dubai and the temperature never went below 20°c at night, but in Europe it very often does. This means that a mosquito net is…
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The Visible Cost of Urbanisation
Reading Time: 3 minutesDensification, also called urbanisation, is a double edged problem. The first problem is that bringing more people closer together you increase noise pollution. The more people live nearby, the more people need to learn to be quiet. The second cost is an inability to shelter from the heat on a hot summer’s…
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Impatient for Rain
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn theory we will get a storm this afternoon and I am impatient for it. I am impatient for heavy rain to cool the roof and walls of this nightmare minergie building. As great as it is to have a cheap building to heat in winter, it is a deadly building in…
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Five Runs in a Week
Reading Time: 2 minutesI ran five days out of seven this week. I ran Monday, twice and then once several days. Most of the runs were easy and early, for two reasons. The first is that we’re in a canicule so pushing hard doesn’t make sense. The second reason is that there are fewer social…