It's been a while since my last blogentry.

I just had a lot to do and haven't found much inspiring to me that I find inspirig to share.

Well... I regularly check out this blog www.bevegt.de and I think you should do, too.

I have just came across this interesting website:

www.greatveganathletes.com

Check it for yourselves, it is definitely worth a visit or two.

My band GETITDONE! had just put out a split 7" we have released on our own and a split CD (on Lunas Records from Istanbul) with Radical Noise from Turkey. This band is damn good and amazing dudes.

Check out their video here:

http://vimeo.com/49978697 

It has been edited by my friend Engin who will soon be living in Germany so let me know if you need professional videos for your band.

My friend Firat organized a pair of Fila Skeletoes for me for just 10€. 

 

These are barefoot running shoes similar to Vibram's fivefingers.

I got a few pairs of shoes that are very light racers, but this is the second time I have purchased barefoot alike shoes.

What can I say? I love running in these!!!

This pair costed only 10€ due to the german shoe shop Deichmann throwing these out of their roster.

Amazing shoe, your feet get wet, and it is a tight and flexible feeling, still I felt safe.

Lately I have made pizzadough on my own out of memory without a scale or anything.

I took these ingredients: 

wholegrain spelt flour, wheat flour, salt, agave nectar, oliveoil, 2 portions of yeast, wheat germs, soyflour, warm water

Knead the ingredients for a while until the dough is just fine. Then leave it in the bowl under a piece of cloth for like 30 min.

Then preheat the oven, form the dough and put the dough in the oven before putting the stuff you want to have on your pizza. So the dough becomes more solid.

Then put whatever you like on to and wait the few minutes until it is ready.

A few times I only added garlicoil and tomatoes on it and added salt and pepper later on. Delicious.

I have also baked this bread.

It is totally tasty, healthy and fits to sweet and salty spreads.

The dough can also be put in the freezer and used whenever needed.

Training Oct. 17th - November 17th:

17th: 34 min Yoga in the morning, 14,5 km running incl. 4x1km fast at ca. 3.50min/km, later 17 min stretchyoga

18th: 10 min mixed exercises to warm up, later on a few exercises with Thera bands but resting apart from this.

19th: 2x 20 min running, later 2.5km swimming incl. 5x100m fast

20th: 105km cycling incl. 2 flat tyres :-(

21st: 14km running incl. 5x1km at 3.50-3.40min/km around lakes in Duisburg, later stretch Yoga

22nd: Restday

23rd: 30 min strength and stability, 55min indoor cycling, 30 min strength and stability exercises

24th: 1.30h relaxed running

25th: 1h cycling on fitnessbike

26th: 1h cycling on fitnessbike

27th: 2.5km swimming, later 45 min running incl. 3 sprints

28th: 18 min Yoga, 12km running incl. 3x 10 squats, then sprints, 6x1km fast at ca. 3.40min/km

29th: 45 min easy running

30th: 1h strength exercises, 1h fitnessbike

31st: 8,5km running incl. 4x 1km fast at 3.40 min/km

Nov 1st: 15 min Yoga in the morning 30 min Yoga in the evening

2nd: 55 min swimming

3rd: "funrun" in Oberhausen. I only partook in 3 laps: 1* 2,6km (6.30min/km), 1* 2,6km (4.15min/km), 1* 2,6km (3.30min/km), went climbing in the evening

4th: 1,6km running to warm up, then 800m fast, 10km race at the st. martinilauf in Herne in 39.00

5th: Restday

6th: 30 min strength, 52 min inddor cycling, a few more strength exercises

7th: 50 min running incl. stairs, jumps, etc. with my Fila Skeletoes

8th: 1.20h cycling on fitnessbike, incl. Intervals

9th: 2.4km swimming

10th: 1h cycling and 25 min mixed exercises with kettlebell, swissball, rope and dumbbell

11th: 35 min running, later 15 min fitnessbike, then 32 km cycling very easy with my uncle

12th: 2.1km swimming

13th: Restday... too much work

14th: 35 min runnin, 70 min cycling on fitnessbike, 10 min strength exercises

15th: Restday... too much work again

16th: 1h cycling + 1 h swimming

17th: 2h cycling on fitnessbike

Veggie Athlete Jasmin/ my band in Turkey/ new vegan Cafe/

My training partner Jasmin ran the last half marathon before the Cologne Marathon in October!

Congrats on the result!!! Yeah!

Since the sports season is more or less over I can rest a little or enjoy finer things in life again.

Yesterday I went to see my friends Deathb4Dishonor play in Cologne and I also put up a merchbooth for the HardcoreHelpFoundation

So my band is about to play 2 Shows in Istanbul due to my friend Emre and his reunited band Radical Noise. I have always dreamed about flying to Istanbul and seeing them pla but now I am honored to even play with them. I cannot wait!!!

Show in Istanbul

Show in Ankara

Together with a few friends I hung out in Wuppertal and got introduced to Falafely. As the name implies it is a falafelplace that has vegan options. Nice and tasty. Check it out while you're in Wuppertal.

I am also very happy about having eaten the catering from Seasons in Gelsenkirchen-Buer. It is an organic, wholefoods cafe/restaurant. I just need to check out the cafe itself, since I have only eaten their food at a festival I have played with my band. Needless to say I am always happy when I find out about vegan spots in my area.

My girlfriend went to a veggie-fare in Düsseldorf where my friend Björn did a cookery show.

She was kind enough to bring me a vegan organic bar. After having tried this I ordered some other bars of that brand and all of them were amazing!!! Found it very easy to eat "active greens" bar while on my bike during my long distance triathlon.

The box of 18 "chocolaty choc chip" was gone after 3 days. So,so delicious!!!

I figured out it would be too expensive to eat too much of these every day so I have tried to make soe chocolate energy balls on my own and the result was tasteful, vitalizing and healthy:

Dried dates, spelt whole flour, wheat germs, mulberry sirup, agave nectar, dried bananas, flax seeds, cacao powder, chia seeds, ground almonds, soymik, peanut butter, maca powder: The energy ball is in the middle!

Finally new "Veggie Athletes" shirts are in the making. Due to several circumstances it had taken very long, but they will soon appear in the "Alles-vegetarisch.de" shop again.

You can also buy the organic foodbars there!

Training Sept. 10th- 23rd

10th: Restday

11th: indoor cycling 53min + power and stability exercises

12th: 36 min yoga

13th: 50 min running

14th: 40 min power and stability, 20 min VO2max (5min warmup, 3x30/30, 2x60/60, 3x30/30, 5 min cooldown) training on fitnessbike

15th: 3h easy running ca. 29km in Cologne

16th: power and stability excersises, rope skipping, yoga, running a few min with my daughter

17th: 40 min running

18th: 1h cycling on fitnessbike

19th: 2x 29,5km cycling to Herne and back later

20th: running ??? no entry... hm.

21st: 1.10h power and stabilty, then sauna

22nd: 3.10h easy cycling (90 km)

23rd: daughter birthday: just safeguarding the kids that climbed, nothing else. stayed awake far too long the day before and needed recovery. But you know what? Season is over, I can do whatever I wanna do! No more too much planning for my training.

Donating money for Peta/ Training July 11th- August 2nd

I would love to make more out of my long distance triathlon next month and am searching for friends, companies, supporters that want to sponsor me on this triathlon. I will run with a "Veggie Athletes" logo on my back. All the donated money will go to PETA.

Check this!

Training July 11th- August 2nd
11th: 1.45h running easy with some faster km
12th: 65 min running incl. 3 sprints
13th: 3.9km swimming
14th: 33min running inl. stairrunning, 3 sprints and weights for a few minutes
15th: 64 min running incl. 3 sprints
16th: 3.9km swimming, loads of heavy carrying because of moving
17th: 1.40h cycling on fitnessbike, carrying stuff
18th: 4.1km swimming, carrying
19th: Restday, just carrying stuff
20th: 30min running, later strength and stability
21st: 40 min running, strength and stability exercises with body weight, 3.15h cycling
22nd: 6h blocktraining: 5.10 cycling, 45min running
23rd: restday
24th: 45 min running, later strength and stability exercises
25th: 1h Yoga, 2.4km swimming
26th: 40 min running through Triest, incl. loads of stairs and carrying the bike of my girlfriend
27th: Brittas Birthday: Walking through Venice and eating Pasta and Pizza.
28th: 3 km swiming in Florence, 1.35h running on the beach
29th: 57min running through Pisa, incl. 3 sprints and seeing roman remains of antique Pisa, the only vegan cafe is closed for vacation.
30th: 2h cycling from Pisa to Livorno on an antique road, later exploring Rome on a bike, cycling through the Circus Maximus. The vegan cafe we wanted to eat at is closed for vacation. WTF?!?
31st: 2.06h running on the beach in Follonica, then exercises strength and stability and some swimming
1st: 2h cycling on the Lago di Garda! Beautiful! Loving it! Some swimming before and later on.
2nd: Restday (not enough sleep the night before due to driving back home with a stop in Munich to eat vegan Kebab

Win a "Veggie Athletes" Shirt or order one!

PETA2  has a feature about me. Post your comment there to win one of the "Veggie Athletes" shirts!
You can also order the shirts from Alles-Vegetarisch.de and get a discount there after your next race (in case you're wearing this shirt).
So yeah! It is on! Spread the word, do your best!


Training March 13th to 19th: a week to regenerate
13th: 3km prework swimming (incl. swimexercises)
14th: running for only 56 min, then sauna
15th: 1.07h cycling, then 13min running real fast
16th:3.4km swimming

17th: 2.06h cycling around noon. Later playing a show with H2O, Madball, Devil in me, Strength Approach, Deez Nuts but couldn't see all the bands myself, because my daughter wanted to attend a Casper show with me and it was really amazing! Thanks to Ben for letting us in, although it has been sold out.


18th: 1h mixed strengthening workout, then 70 min running incl. sprints, loads of stairs, some jumps, pretty fast
had a big brunch later this day. amazing weekend!

19th: 48 min cycling outside hile the sun shone, then 30 min on my fitnessbike and stretch Yoga.

Here's a short video that had been made on the Rebellion Show on March 17th with Toby H2O and Freddy Madball in order to support the HHF, the organisation I also try to help out a bit.