Category: Swiss walks
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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…
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The Increasingly Long Reel and Endless Scrolling
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I looked at Instagram and I noticed that almost all of the “content” is vertical videos. When I look at Facebook and TikTok I notice the same thing. Yesterday I noticed that Bluesky were promoting that they have ten minute videos. I think all of these people have forgotten that we’re…
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The Forgotten Rational of Self-Checkout in Shops
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago I saw someone say that they will never use self-checkout because they don’t want to do someone else’s job, and they want to be paid for the act, if they were to self-checkout. In New York, recently, there was talk of a ten percent discount for people who…
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The Three Minutes Per Kilometre Running Spike
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday was an ordinary Monday. When I got to Colovray I was struck by how warm it felt. I thought that summer broke. It didn’t. The heat is still here. It was interesting to run with the social run group because I felt slow and less energetic. Eventually I checked and saw…
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A Social Run and a Social Ride with Décathlon and Pace Society in Vaud
Reading Time: 2 minutesMore often than not I need to decide between different runs, and different rides. I rarely get an opportunity for both. At first I thought that the run, and the ride would be simultaneous so I was ready to make a decision eventually. Within a day or two of the event I…
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On Instagram Becoming Obsolete
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor many years I would go for a hike, a via ferrata, scuba diving and more and I would take photos. I would then share them on Instagram to friends, colleagues and family. Facebook then bought Instagram and within a few months it went from being a social network built around our…