[Sports] Running & Dynamo

The good things first: A friend and me went to Hamburg last weekend and took part in the "Volkslauf durch das Alstertal". As we were afraid of our bad training we decided to start for the 10 km run only, saving us the half marathon distance for another time.

Our personal goal was to run the 10 km distance in below one hour. I know this is not a real hard thing to do for someone doing regular jogging over this distance, but as we hadn't had any competition experience up to now, we just wanted to give it a try. The results were okay: my friend Rene ran 10 km in 00:50:19, I reached the finish after 00:51:32 - way below our goal, so that we were a little bit proud of us. I hope, I can put on some pictures in a few days. (Edit: I cannot - the official photo agency of the running event wants me to pay for the pictures they've taken of me. And these pictures are not that beautiful anyway...)

Now let's have a look at the bad things: Because of my holidays and the running event, I missed 2 home games of Dynamo. I've never seen Dynamo lose again - they always won when I was there. Unfortunately they once again were not that lucky. They played 1-1 against Eintracht Braunschweig a week ago and lost 0-2 against SC Paderborn yesterday. This is a bit sad, because both opponents played in the 3rd league last year and are not what I would call a hard opponent. Let's hope everything will get better in a few weeks. Dynamo will play in Siegen this weekend, next home game is against Alemannia Aachen in 2 weeks - I will be there and hope to see them win again.

[Holiday] Slovakia

Friends and me spent a week in the High Tatras - the world's smallest high mountaineous area. Not that much to mention as I do not want to bore the readers (if I should have some...). We went hiking through the mountains and had a lot of sun. Very nice.

One thing got me shaking during this week. I have been hiking in the Tatras for years now - the first time at the age of three. But one thing was different this year: there was not so much wood there as I hat gotten used to. Last year a forest fire killed some amount of wood. As if this wasn't enough, a tornado hit the mountains later that year, smashing even larger areas of trees. Driving the main road along the mountains (which once was a road through the woods), you only see devastated areas. Or as our renter brought it to the point: "No problem. In 50 years everything will be okay again..."