Month: December 2012

2012 Track & Field season

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Chronicle of a Steeplechase year

2012 was my first season 10 years after quitting races. Step by step I increased mileage, training sessions, commitment. In complete harmony my family, my girlfriend, my friends and my training mates started and kept on supporting me. It was a special season, that can hardly be synthesized by a short clip. I anyhow tried to and the following images are my biggest thank you to those people who continuously follow my running journey.
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor […]” (Aldous Huxley)
Thanks to mum, dad and Katrina (always the main sponsors and fundamental moral supporters), Mattia (it’s a pleasure to search for the scientific explanations of facts), Pie (2013 will be definitely great, you’re destroying the right obstacles), Gbo (where should I go without your accurate technical hints?), the whole Cone-Project (more than an idea…a way of life!), Batman (talking with you is always a motivation injection!), Mark (more than a simple technical partner), and every single person that helped me or I helped during hundreds of training sessions.
Enjoy and…keep on training! (LINK for German viewers).

A good way to end the year

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The 2012 has come to a (good) end! Today’s race, the 37th Berliner Silvesterlauf, aka “Der Pfannkuchenlauf”, gave me a beautiful 10th place over 935 finishers along a wonderful 10 km course in the famous Grunewald (see the website www.berliner-silvesterlauf.de for more details). Congratulations to my training partner Johannes that won the race with a perfect run, leading from the start to the finish.

After 18 races, 2800 km and 200 hours of training, 180000 kCal burned and an average pace of 4’20″/km, I can easily say that I laid the right foundations for a rewarding 2013, under every point of view.

Happy new year, my dear readers! And…keep on training!

The last corner before the finish line at the 37th Berliner Silvesterlauf.
1
Riewe, Johannes
1986
DE
LG Nord Berlin
0:34:00
2
Kopf, Michael
1976
DE
SCC Berlin
0:34:58
3
Töpfer, Arne
1988
DE
LTC Berlin
0:35:22
4
Müller, Philipp
1981
DE
Jevenstedt
0:35:40
5
Leidig, Holger
1969
DE
Leidig24 Triath.
0:36:08
6
Rodenbeck, Jürgen
1969
DE
RSC Wunstorf
0:36:19
7
Meinike, Patric
1992
DE
Oberhausen
0:36:20
8
Frommhold, Jens
1988
DE
SCC Berlin
0:37:05
9
Kröhnert, Kevin
1988
DE
SCC Berlin
0:37:11
10
Santuz, Alessandro
1983
ITA
LG Nord Berlin
0:37:12

The official results of the 37th Berliner Silvesterlauf.



Cone-Project presents: "Emozioniadi" 2012

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What are the “Emozioniadi”? It’s a group-training session (not a real race, actually) where the fifth gets the bigger prize and the rules are quite simple:
  • the event must be held at the end of season
  • everyone can participate in five different disciplines (100 m, long jump, high jump, shot put, 1000 m)
  • the will to have fun is compulsory!
Enjoy the video recap of this big party!

Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review

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The Zeitgeist (from the German “Spirit of the time”) is the name given by YouTube (now Google) to the end-of-year review clip. In this short but dense video the authors put together the top search trends of 2012. You will find an amazing unifying and inspirational power condensed in less than three minutes. Just world, people, life.