I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
― Alan Kay, 2005
Bragging Rights: Marathoner
So far I blogged here only about failing at my first marathon. The lessons learned paid off in the end. Meanwhile I ran two official marathons: My debut in Dresden 2013 (03:55:16) and in 2014 I ran the Berlin marathon (03:55:13). Success is worth mentioning too, right? 😉 Both I was able to finish in […]
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
3 lessons learned from failing at marathon debut
Last year I failed miserably on running my first marathon. Severe pain from shin splints forced me to stop running completely while training for Berlin marathon 2012. I really tried to continue running but that was probably the worst thing to do. Finally I realized I had to take a break. I stopped running completely […]
First marathon at risk: One month to go
In my last post I told myself “not to overdo” it. Sadly exactly this happened. I have lots of trouble with shin splints (medial). 🙁 What happened? The last long run, which went well was on 19th August. Previously I was running over 30km multiple times on the weekend. Obviously this was too much. I […]
Second month of training for first marathon
About two month ago I did sign up for my first marathon and started to focus my training for that event. In my previous post I defined a simple way to measure my progress towards the goal, running the marathon distance. Another month has passed and here is my updated report. It was not a […]
First marathon: Resume after first month of training
Roughly one month ago I did sign up for my first marathon. At that time I also wrote a post about how I will prepare for that. So let’s have fun and create some additional pressure by publishing the results so far. How to measure progress The main goal is to be able to run […]
Project 42195: Training for the first marathon
Running a marathon has been on my list for quite a while now. The past 1.5 years I did focus on learning Sambo (russian martial arts). But I just did sign up for the Frankfurt Marathon in October. What are the goals? The primary goal is to finish. In general this probably should be the […]