Every couple of months I start again with doing sport. Looks like a usual thing in my life
The heart rate monitor my girlfriend gave me once for my birthday (or was it xmas?) conked out. So for better training I bought a new one. The Polar F6 includes a nice feature… it counts the calories you are wasting during sport. This is great. It pushes me to do just a little more sport. Just a little more.
Jürgen (one of my colleagues from work) lent me his race ergometer for a couple of months. He is building a nice little apartment in the storage area of his father. During this time he doesn’t need the ergometer.
When coming home I don’t have an excuse for not doing sport now. Cannot say: too hot, too rainy, too thunderstormy lol … well I can, but it’s useless now

Since August, 19th when I wet my shoes after the bike training I did not train for a couple of reasons. The first reason were my wet shoes. A couple of days later my molar tooth broke into two parts. Almost a week later I had my visit at the dentist where I got my broken tooth pulled out. After this operation I had to stay away from alcohol (not such a big problem), from tea (oh no… not my beloved tea) and coffee (well, who cares about coffee). And I had to abandon sport activities untill the wound is healed up completely. I am in good spirits that I can start with my training Wednesday this week.

Another problem is that a part of the track is be renewed. I hope they are finished soo.

My daily routine includes bike training. The circuit I drive is about 19,2km long give or take a couple of meters. Ealier I tried to get a 22km/h average at least. Nowadays my goal is 23km/h. Yesterday I drove an average speed of 23,98km/h which is my record on this track. The wind direction was agreeable, the strength of it also. So I didn’t loose to much time on the way there and let me fly home with the wind in my back on the way back.

Despite of the ride yesterday the wind today was very unfavourable. I didn’t reach my goal of 23km/h average speed by 0,12km/h. So my goal for tomorrow is perfectly clear: drive faster than today.

One word to the surrounding temperatures. I read from a couple of sporticians that they do best when it is warm. The warmer it is the better they are. For me it is the opposite. The warmer it is the more unpleasant I feel. I hate it to breath air which gets cooled in my lungs.

Is there a friday, 13th phenomenon? From the scientific point of view I would say: of course not! What kind of dumb question is that. Mishaps occur on every day with the same possibility. From the human point of view I would say: the felt number of mishaps is higher than on any other day. For example today. I actually looked joyfully forward to this day. Because I knew nothing unusual would happen. But as always I was corrected. During my almost daily bike tour my rear tire got flat. That would not be a problem if it would not occur on the most distant point of the track. And because I had no bike lock with me, no money with me and no tire repair kit with me, I had to walk home taking the bike with me. And because I wasn’t wearing socks, I got blisters on my feet. So much for Friday, 13th. :s

Gibt es ein Freitag, der 13te, Phänomen? Aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht würde ich sagen: natürlich nicht! Was für eine dumme Frage. Missgeschicke geschehen an jedem Tag mit der gleichen Wahrscheinlichkeit. Aus menschlicher Sicht allerdings, würde ich sagen: die gefühlte Anzahl an Missgeschicken ist größer als an anderen Tagen. Zum Beispiel heute. Ich habe mich eigentlich auf den heutigen Tag gefreut, weil ich wusste, es wird nichts außergewöhnliches passieren. Aber, wie immer, wurde ich eines Besseren belehrt. Während meiner fast täglichen Radtour hatte ich einen Reifenschaden am hinteren Rad.  Das wäre auch kein Problem, wenn es nicht ausgerechnet am entferntesten Punkt des Kurses passiert wäre. Und da ich kein Fahrradschloss bei mir hatte, kein Geld bei mir hatte und kein Reifenreparaturset bei mir hatte, musste ich nach Hause laufen und das Fahrrad gleich mitnehmen. Und da ich keine Socken anhatte, habe ich auch noch Blasen an den Füßen bekommen. So viel zum Thema Freitag, der 13te. :s