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

Next races for me!

Now that the triathlon season is over (and if no wonder occurs that I am gonna be flying to the Gamrin Barcelona City Triathlon) I will finally go running again.

My motivation within the last week wasn't high and I had 3 (!!!) days to rest. No time, no motivation to do sports. My muscles still felt slightly sore beyond reason.
Anyways... In october and November I am gonna partake in these two races:

Oct. 3rd: Herne: Herbstlauf of the Herner Triahtlon Team (a young triathlon team def. worth supporting).
Nov. 4th: Herne: St. Martini-City-Lauf

Both will be 10km races. The first one through woods, the second is a fast course within the city of Herne.
I will also have 15-20 kids from school with me that run the kids races.

Those days could be leisure days, or at least have more leisure hours, but I do believe that kids nowadays need to pushed, need to be pulled away from the shit they consume on tv and other media.
Where will this end if little kids don't know how to play, how to run, how to walk stairs?
I will always do my best to give them an opportunity to make this experiences. One life- one chance!

One of my favorite songs!

Back from London

London is a very veganfriendly city and England is a veganfriendly country. The labels of the vegetarian society or the vegan label of the big groceries really make life easier there. You can also eat out vegan in every part of the city. Even restaurants as the Eritrean Mosob label their food as Vegan.
And now I am back in Germany. I mean it is not Gran Canaria or even worse: France (worst country for vegans in the world probably), but it is getting back to normal. Looking back to the beginning of my vegan life 15 years ago, it has changed for the better over here, too.

Back to training:
I arrived at 9.30 at the Airport in Weeze, dropped my daughter off at home and made my way to the St. Martini City Lauf, a 10km run in Herne, where I work and many of my students also wanted to run. When I got there their run was over but some of them placed almost on top. Then I got the chance to still register for the race and so I did with just a ew hours of sleep, but ok prepared. I ran a 38.55min, but Mikatiming says different. I got the same netto as brutto time, so they made a mistake. My watch told me the time I posted above, so I go with this! It was not exactely what I was aiming for but considering I only had 3*1h sleep on the floor of an airport, it was decent. This is a pic of me running this race.

The other day I only did an hour of cycling at home on my fitnessbike.
On tuesday morning I went swimming at the Aquapark in Oberhausen. This pool usually is really expensive, but quite cheap when you enter before 8 am. Then you can oly use the 25m lane pool, but that is the only thing I go for anyways... In the evening I also went to my gym to lift some weights.