Life is not a Practice

A family walk. What else can you do when the snow is melting so fast that you can watch it happen.

Just across the field we found a place where all the rain had pushed the snow off the slope and left the remains looking like the end of a glacier



Down in to the Wertach valley and then we explored a new path home. One and a half hours of sunshine and lovely scenery.



Track is on Max's GPSies page at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=vcpqqswxfozzcmrj

More pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/neill.hogarth/2011Winter#

Max's report and photos are at http://maxhogarth.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunday-walk-down-wertachtal.html

The weather forecast said rain but Irene, Gabi and I still walked up to the Alpe Stubental (http://www.stubental-alpe.de/) pulling our sledges behind us.



After a few drinks it had really begun to rain but the road was still snow and ice covered so, using our sledges, we were quickly back at the car.
A fun evening!

The picture is borrowed from the homepage of the Alpe. It was dark when we were up there.

Out for a New Years Day walk in Bodelsberg today. They are a bit lower than us so they have been under the cloud and therefore well below 0°C for a fair few days.



Everything is coated in "powder sugar"

More pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/neill.hogarth/2011Winter#

I'd rather cycle 65km than jog 6.5km.

But today 11 of us from the Nesselwang Sports Club took part in the Wetzer Firmenlauf (http://web167.netzwerteserver2.de/index.php?id=831).



6.5km through the Allgäu countryside with temperatures above 30°C in the shade.
The cracks, including Alison, were up front with the experts but Karin K. Gabi, Moni JS. and I set the aim of surviving and were finished in just under an hour. It was actually quite fun especially the ice cream we decided we had earned.

Full size picture at http://picasaweb.google.com/neill.hogarth/2010CyclingII#

More pictures at http://www.laufarena.de/876.0.html

After the fun on the treadmill yesterday, I thought that I would give jogging a try.
It was freezing outside in the southern suburbs of Indianapolis but after a little I warmed up.
I jogged through the dark with no plan and no idea where I was going and passed people scraping the ice off their windscreens. Maybe I should just give up taking exercise until I get back to my bikes.

I am on business in Indianapolis USA. No bike and on the edge of the city even if I had one.



Rather than do nothing, I went and tried the fitness room. A few years ago they had an exercise bike in there but now there are only tread mills.
I hate running - it is for those who can not afford a bike but faced with the decision treadmill or nothing I decided on the treadmill. Half an hour of running on the spot is probably good for the condition but is no where near as much fun as biking through Allgäu.
And I don't have a GPS track. It would only be a spot on the edge of Indianapolis :-)

Easter Monday, the family was asleep and it was only raining lightly.
A 6 km walk through the lovely Allgäu countryside with sun shine, snow and rain but all alone. Met no one all the way.



Track at http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=smjqzmyneegkzhhb

Picture at http://picasaweb.google.com/neill.hogarth/ViewsAndPictures#