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‘Don’t be afraid, open your heart and say, say what your soul sings to you’. Neither is she troubled nor in turmoil – the tempest has settled, her agitation calmed.

She seems smooth and soft, deep and dark like the polished sea on a full-moon night. Not a wind is stirring – the waves are quietly and regularly, like a timepiece, washing memories of long forgotten days to these shores, our kingdoms.

And here we are, mirrors of the universe, staring into the silvery vastness, facing the unfathomable sea, the curly waves and the moonlight dancing upon the dark, impenetrable water, like memory, dancing, in solitude, on our souls, unrelinquished and never to be undone.

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’
10 April 2003

When I started out on my running career back in the summer of 2006 with the Holzstraßenlauf half-marathon, I was just testing grounds, in search of a replacement for my fading football passion. While I struggled to finish those 21 ks in a little more than 1:30 hrs, it was easy to realize that running would be just that – a rewarding, pleasurable, healthy pastime.

It’s been four years now since I started to run on a regular basis. Running has done a lot for me and I have done a lot of running, covering about 10’000 miles (16’000 km)n in the interim. Read the rest of this entry »

Einstern is on holiday from June 19 to June 30.

We will back in duty on July 1. Looking forward to be at your service soon.

Der Boston Marathon (kurz BM) nimmt für sich in Anspruch, der älteste und traditionsreichste Marathon der Welt zu sein. Am 19. April 2010 wurde dieser Lauf über die legendäre Distanz von 42,195 km oder 26.2 Meilen zum 114. Mal ausgetragen. Er wurde zum ersten Mal, ein Jahr nach den ersten Olympischen Spielen, 1897 veranstaltet und findet seither mit einer kurzen Unterbrechung jährlich jeden dritten Montag im April am Patriots Day statt. Beim ersten Lauf 1897 nahmen 15 Teilnehmer teil, jetzt sind es 26.000 und mehr. Für den 114. Boston Marathon meldeten sich insgesamt 26.735 LäuferInnen, 23.126 nahmen tatsächlich teil, 97,9 % davon oder 22.645 schafften es über die Ziellinie in der Boylston Street.
Gerade von einem beeindruckenden Marathon-Erlebnis heim gekehrt, entschloss ich mich im Oktober 2009 spontan daran teilzunehmen. Read the rest of this entry »

Quick entry for now. The 114th Boston marathon has been successfully completed, again under 3 hrs, the 5th consecutive time. While this marathon was one of the hardest because of ugly head-wind gusts starting after 5 ks and a hilly course with quite a few of 300 – 1.000 m climbs, the atmosphere was just outstanding – the Americans can get really crazy when it comes to sports. Sometimes the noise was deafening.
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