Vasaloppet 2008

Hello all!

long time no postings! But I am still alive. It took a while to recover from the Marathon des Sables, especially as my Dad urged me to run the Paderborner Half Marathon just 5 days later - thank you very much. Had a beer at km mark 18 and finished in 1:35:27.
After that I was completly drained. Tried to jog 4 (four) kms a week later - didn't make it!

But then everything healed well and by mid june I was able to ride the Alb Extrem roadbikemarathon, 255km in the swabian hills. Two weeks after that I joind a group of riders to Denmark for also a roadbikemarathon. 304km this time. My average was 29 km/h which pleased me very much. Also in Denmark were Rudi Wehn, Wolfgang Nagel, Bernward Rechel and Dieter Nickel. The whole trip was loads of fun. Unfortuntely Rudi had a bad day. First flat tyre after 5km. Second flat after 30km (we had checked the inner AND outer tube!) and after 45km he crashed into a guy in front of him. But as this guy had crashed half a second before into his leading bike, Rudi had the chance of a snowball in hell - so he went over the handlebars and crashed his beloved styrkeproven helmet along with his collarbone.

The Squashseason started in October, I signed up for 2. Bundesleague Team Paderborn. At the moment we're in spot 4 in the league which is ... ok.
And the Rudi had this gran idea of entering the Vasaloppet. And I was made to go as well. Just great. I've just about never skied in my life - let alone Cross country skiing - which the Vasaloppet is. So this weekend were off for a practise "run" in the Harz. As a wise man once said: If you want to try cross country skiing - start with a small country. Ok.

Bye for now!
C