short review

Since the last post, some time passed by. I was almost two weeks at home over Christmas and New Year's Eve and had some nice trainings with "my gang" (Richi, Markus, Wieszwerg, Woif, Schani and Mani G.) ;) My main activities during the holidays were sleeping, training, meeting relatives, eating and playing Nintendo Wii with neighbours and friends :D

As you have read in the previous post we had two big X-country skiing weeks in december. That was the reason why I took it a bit easier before Christmas, because the days right after we did our second SSS (special speed session). As there was no snow (let's better say "to less snow for X-country skiing or frozen ski runs") in the surroundings of Henndorf, I ran all intervals. A middle distance course which I ran with Elisa's friend Johan, another O-training with two loops (1 uphill, 1 downhill) and the New Year's Eve run in our neighbour city were included.

At the New Year's Eve run not less than 23 people started for our club, which brought us the second place in the team ranking and therefore a big food box with cheese, ham, pickles, an extra-large salt stick and a 10 l beer barrel :) The course was 5,8 km with I guess some 20 Hm. I finished 7th overall in 19:46 min. and thus 3rd in M20. (I won a bottle of sparkling wine ;)

In the evening our old Richi "canonball" Gathercole celebrated his 40th birthday. He organised a nice party with a delicious meal and beverages. It was a lot of fun and after eating we handed over our gift: the "Fatkiller" :D It's a mixture between a training plan and an Advent calendar. The goal is to bring Richi to train 3 times a week. If he achieves that, he will get a small reward like a chocolate, a beer or some sweets. If he trained just two times, he would get a light penalty (ironing the clothes, 1 day no TV) and doing only 1 training means a hard penalty, e.g. 1 week no alcohol, cleaning the whole flat... We all hope he will pervade the trainings and join us at the 1st AC!

Ok, well, those were my highlights in the last time :D

Currently we are again in St. Jakob im Walde to complete another two endurance weeks. More about that coming soon :)