Category: Swiss walks
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Why Walkable Journeys Would Free Us From Cars, Bikes, Buses and More
Reading Time: 4 minutesScience et Avenir wrote an article about why we should cycle as much as the dutch. They think that we should cycle instead of taking the car for short journeys. I disagree. For me, if a distance is less than three kilometres then it can be done in half an hour or…
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Libro FM and AudiobookShelf Are Seamless
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I was very happy with Audible, until it was bought by Amazon, and then I felt the desire to move away because I didn’t want to feed a monopoly. It is through my desire to break free from Audible that I began to experiment with stripping DRM from books, first…
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Walking Along a Dry Lake Bed in the Vallée De Joux
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNormally there is water where I walked yesterday. At first I walked along the stones, where it was dry. After a moment I decided to take off my shoes and begin to walk through the mud and sediment. In so doing my feet sank as deep as my ankles. The mud…
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The Morat-Fribourg Race Success
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I ran from Morat to Fribourg in a race with 17,000 other people. One of them was wearing a 34kg suit of armour. Most were in shorts and t-shirts as you’d expect. The challenge for me, wasn’t to race. It was to run the distance, without exhausting myself, without pain, and…
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The Novel Experience of Running an Unfamiliar Route During a Race
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is amusing that I would be nervous about a linear path that goes from A to B. I am nervous because I haven’t had the race experience yet, although in recent weeks I have experienced two triathlons, once walking, the second as a volunteer, and I experienced a crtiérium a week…
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Running a Longer Social Distance
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sunday I will be running 17km in a running event. My goal isn’t to be fast. My goal is to run 17km without getting exhausted, and without suffering too much. Two or three weeks ago I ran a social 18km or so and I felt fine at the start but as…
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Quality of Walking Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an ideal world, we step out of our home and we go for a walk, like they did in The Last of the Summer Wine, and we socialise, and see local people. During the pandemic we could step out of the house, and go for a walk, without worrying about traffic,…
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The iPhone, Digital Minimalism, and Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I was at university the second time, as a mature student I estimated that my social network was around 600 people deep. In light of this it seems absurd that I hooked on to Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Why would it make sense to hook on to both…
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A Dry Cloudless Autumn in Switzerland
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I was struck by a paradoxical site. An Autumnal looking stream that has practically dried up. A week ago the river could be seen, and the rocks, and stones. Last night, during a group run what I saw was yellow leaves sitting on still water, with no water flowing. Water is…
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On the Importance of Volunteers at Sporting Events
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn recent weeks I volunteered at two events. The Triathlon de Divonne and the Critérium de Céligny. At both events there is a social need that people need to be made aware of. That social need is for people to volunteer at sporting events, not just participate. The Course de l’éscalade is…