*Slightly* misjudged the distance in today‘s run. But it was great fun to explore a new route close to my parents-in-law. Starting out, it was very cold (around freezing), later it got a bit warmer – and yet, the sunrise and the mist, just a perfect combination! #Running #applewatchultra3 #eichstaett #bavaria

8+ hours of sleep, a good warm up, then a run with my new glasses (which helped a lot) through this almost perfect weather. Yesssss! #Running #applewatchultra3 #spring

Ouch! There was *that* one branch I didn’t see while accelerating downhill. As a consequence, I slid along the path for 2-3 meters, collecting leaves and dirt. Luckily, I must have hit the one spot without rocks for my fall… This could have been much worse, since I was really going for some speed at that moment. Well, my new glasses for #Running should arrive within the next few days, hm, wouldn’t have been a mistake to have ordered them a few weeks earlier… Nevertheless: A fun run (apart from the few seconds), a good audiobook, and a long shower afterwards… #applewatchultra3

After the run, it was quite a pleasure to do my 3,500+ jumps with the wonderful #Renpho jumping rope (without the actual rope). I‘m still amazed to stay almost completely in Zone 1 regardless of my high jumping frequency ~250 jumps/minute. But I won’t complain… #JumpRope #applewatchultra3 #Renpho

Eight+ hours of sleep, a thorough warm up, then a run through the slush – it’s warm enough for the snow to melt, but there hasn’t been enough time so far. So this was a wet feet run… And then it happened: I tried a new path and got so thoroughly lost, I ended up #Running in the opposite direction from the one I had intended to go. This was extremely baffling to me. Usually, I have a really good sense of where I am, but this time, with all the snow and slush, I didn’t recognize a few of the trails I had run on dozens of times before. So strange. In the end, I ended up with roughly 5 kilometers more than I had planned. At least, I had a great new audiobook to keep me company: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Fast paced, lots of action, nerdy, funny. Reminded me of Scott Meyer‘s WIZARD 2.0 series. Back at home, I did my 3,500 jumps, then off to the shower. What a day! #applewatchultra3 #winter #trails #aalen

It snowed quite a bit overnight, thus it was a run with *extras* (like lifting my feet way higher than usually for a substantial amount of time). And yet, it really was a fun run, I even stopped in the middle of Eichstätt to take these pics. As it is so often the case: Listening to some good science fiction stuff by #johnscalzi #Running #applewatchultra3 #winter #snow #eichstaett

Everything was frozen over when I left the house. But, though they are absolutely great, I didn’t want to run with the EXOspikes. Thus, slower speed. But the route was great, the audiobook as well – THE SHATTERING PEACE by John Scalzi –, so there was a good amount of entertainment for me in the mix. Have a great Wednesday, y‘all! #Running #applewatchultra3 #audiobooks #winter

Logs, logs, logs. But no computer logs. Real ones, ~100 of them. In my way. In three different places. I had to switch directions 3x because there simply was no getting through – what an annoyance! Then there was only one choice left: go back up (yuck!) or take a mountainbike trail down. I opted for the latter, no fun. At least, to my great joy, that went only as far as ~300-400 meters. Afterwards, the usual 2,500+ jumps with my fake rope. Ready for the day! #Running #applewatchultra3 #trails

Gorgeous run after a long night (3 hours of sleep in the afternoon, another 9 hours during the night). I revisited a trail that was nigh unusable for quite some time. But a lot of mountain bikers, other runners and wanderers seem to have trodden the path often enough to make is perfectly runnable. I did not know and went all the way up the standard trail (which is directly next to this old train track), but back down again, I wanted to see for myself how it looked. And, yes, it was/is a great #Running experience. Afterwards, I jumped my usual 2,500+ jumps at home, then off into the shower I went. Weekends are a bliss! #applewatchultra3 #renpho #Aalen #JumpRope