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Hardlopen in de sneeuw

Op deze vijfentwintigste sneeuwdag heb ik weer eens heerlijk hardgelopen in de sneeuw. Er bestaat niets lekkerders dan hardlopen over paden, dijken, weilanden en langs de rivier. Paden waar nog weinig mensen geweest zijn. Op sommige "paden" was ik zelfs de eerste die zijn voetstappen in de nog maagdelijke sneeuw mocht zetten. Heerlijk om een route zodanig te kiezen dat ik van de 12 kilometer, maar 10 meter geen sneeuw onder mijn voeten had. Werken, maar een zaligheid voor de enkels. En met een zonnetje aan een blauwe hemel is het goed toeven. Op naar nog 25 dagen!

   

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First run with babyjogger

Today was the first time I went for a run with the babyjogger with my 7 months old daughter in it. The weather was great: 23 degrees with mild clouds and a little wind. She had a lot of fun, as had I. This was also the first time I used my new iPhone 3GS to track the map using InstaMapper. InstaMapper is a free tool that sends waypoints periodically to the InstaMapper server. Below 120 seconds between updates it keeps the gps on, over that time it turns the gps off. It won't send an update until the configured accuracy is reached. This time I used 100 meters and 60 seconds. When the gps stays on InstaMapper claims that it will drain the battery in 5 hours. On the InstaMapper website you can make a track from a series of waypoints which you can than export or share with the world. Until Posterous supports .KML files the following map is created with an iframe to InstaMapper.

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Unicycle Marathon Düsseldorf

I started unicycling in the autumn of 2007. It was after  I saw a great unicycle performance in "Africa, Africa" when I went to a bicycle store with my CTO to by him a bike. Faith or not, but they also sold unicycles. I just couldn't resist and bought one. It took me a full-time week to master the device. In may 2008 I drove my first marathon in Düsseldorf. But the night before I got caught with the stomach-fluh. I could not eat, could not drink. I gave it a shot but sopped at the half-marathon point. In 2009 I started for the second time. This time I finished, and I must say in a respectable time of  2:32:43.

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