The summer is almost over. I have had a wonderful time, still not much time to update this bog with a new entry. And then I finished a new entry, but couldn't upload it. Everything was gone! I really hate putting things back together that had been finished already and that is why I stay away from putting it back together.
Anyways... here is what I have started to write sometime in June:
So I have spent some wonderful weekends. It is rare for me lately since I had to write reports and also need to refurbish the new apartment still. Today we had worked on the terrace and the soon to become living room.
Anyways... here is what I have started to write sometime in June:
So I have spent some wonderful weekends. It is rare for me lately since I had to write reports and also need to refurbish the new apartment still. Today we had worked on the terrace and the soon to become living room.
Wonderful
weekend of July 5th to 7th:
Friday:
sleeping, cycling to swimtraining, cycling to WolfXdown/Keep them
shut show @Druckluft, Adults only @ Altenberg, cycling back home: All
with my bro Rene. How I love to cycle on mild summer nights!
Saturday:
cycling 32km to ultrashorttriathlon in Herne, winning this triathlon
together with Rene (got to the finish line together), cycling back
home, picking up my repaired tyre and finding a mountainbike to buy
there this week, working in the apartment with the electrician,
working with the hammer, helping our neighbour to pick a new massive
refrigerator, lakeswimming with my daughter and friends with little
kids, able to do some shortswims with my training buddy Rene, wanting
to cycle to the night of the industrial culture, but realizing that
Iron Maiden can be seen for free, so we went up the Gasometer
and checked Iron Maiden from there, cycling to another museum
(Ludwiggalerie) with a nice photoexhibition, sneaked in for free,
almost falling a sleep while standing, cycled back home and fell
asleep in no time.
Sunday:
Alarm clock set for 7.30 to bring my daughter to her badminton
tournament and hanging outside the sportscenter. Did some Power
workout later on and some Yoga in the evening to end this weekend.
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| Rene and me did the whole race together, even the finish! |
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| Me before the swimstart at the UKT Herne |
One
week later my daughter wanted to go to the Splash Festival with her.
We always take passengers with us to make up for the gasmoney. So we
had this dude who wanted to work at a vegan snack bar. Of course we
talked alot about his profession as organic vegetable farmer. Quite
interesting. Beforehand I wouldn't have expected this festival to
serve vegan food. We didn't find his snackbar but the one from
Alles-Vegetarisch and had Cheeseburgers twice in those two days we
spent thee. My daughter goes crazy for Casper, so we checked him
out. Since he's got hardcore roots it is quite funny to see him play
in front of 20000 people while I have played shows with my band and
his hardcoreband from almost 10 years ago in front of 50 kids. Anyways... the Caspershow was great. A Tribe Called Quest were great, but all this new sexist hiphop stuff is just nothing for me!
I
found the time to go running there, but no special training or
anything. Even the one travelling day without training.We
drove back in the night after the Caspershow to hang out at some
Badminton tournament again.
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| Hanging out at Splash! festival |
This is how we had celebrated the open water season:
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| 1st open water training with my team: Nordtriahtleten |
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| Sven and me with 3km of swimming done at 7.30am !!! |
Spring weekend in Berlin:
A few weekends earlier we went to
Berlin and ate at Yoyo (fastfod), Freckles (cakes), Tanne B
(Icecream) and Zeus (pizza and pide). We had visited the XX show at
the Plänterwald (Videolink), the Isolation, ThugXLife show in a squats basement
after the XX show and Sundowning at the open air cinema stage at the Tiefgrund. Three
completely different shows but all amazing. It was also our first
time to ever try out a tandem bike. I had really enjoyed this, while
my girlfriend found my driving style too rowdy. On our last day in
Berlin we had also visited the Hamburger Bahnhof, which hosts a
really big arts exhibition in a former railway station. The main
exhibition was Martin Kippenbergers art, so the punkrocker I am I had
much pleasure discovering what was for me new material by this guy.
Definitely a must see for any punkrelated, arts-interested person.
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| Powernap in front of Freckles |
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| In front of Tanne B with our tandembike |
Have you ever walked into public shower
and seen shower gel, which still stands there after you get back to
the shower after your workout? Lately I collect all shower gels that
lie around abandoned in public showers such as the gym's or the
swimming pool's. I can't see any sense in letting the service throw
it away and me buying a new one. It is always better to not buy any
product, even if I try to buy as conscious as possible
(vegan/organic). But having less waste on this planet and less shower
gel to be produced is def. most ecological, vegan and econimical.
So in case you find an abandoned shower
gel, consider taking it with you before someone just throws it away.
This is a nice post run snack I found at the turkish cornershop:
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| Nuts, figs and wafers! Delicous! |
Anyways... the best food is still the one picked oneself:
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| My daughter and her friend after a badminton tournament |
I went to the Ottonenlauf with fellow
vegan runners. We were 9 to run or walk (because of injuries). 3 of
us made it onto the prize giving for age group prices. We had stayed
at the vegane Bergpension in Schulenberg in the Harz mountains. A
nice, family friendly full on vegan motel. Very quiet surrounding,
not far from a like to have a nice swim. I will come back. By the
way: Katrin from Bevegt was there, too! Check out their amazing
blog!!! Infos on the run have also been posted on veganrunners.de.
Just in case you're interested: My band had put out a new split 7" with Overlord from Belgium on Reality Records. My fellow vegan triathlete John Joseph sang a line to one of our songs.
Here's two recipes for smoothies I wanted to share:
In Duisburg there is this nice veggie Restaurant called Lolu and I think you should check it out, while you're in this area! It is truely great!
I had checked out Hiller in Hannover last weekend. Nice veggie restaurant! The next day I placed 20th out of 340 triathletes at the Maschsee Triathlon.
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Just in case you're interested: My band had put out a new split 7" with Overlord from Belgium on Reality Records. My fellow vegan triathlete John Joseph sang a line to one of our songs.
Here's two recipes for smoothies I wanted to share:
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| Green smoothie made of half an avocado, a banana, a kiwi, field salad, maca powder, wheat germs, hazelnut oil, ground almonds, agave syrup, weight gainer powder wheat(oat, soy, potatoe), ginger, cinnamon, vanilla sugar, mulberry syrup and apple juice. |
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| red smoothie: water melon, strawberries, blueberries, field salad, avocado, banana, ground almonds, weight gainer powder, maca powder, wheat germs, apple juice, blood orange juice, peppermint, cinnamon, ginger, agave and mulberry syrup for sweetness |
In Duisburg there is this nice veggie Restaurant called Lolu and I think you should check it out, while you're in this area! It is truely great!
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| Kaiserschmarrn with fruits and icecream |
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