Soeben bekommen von den Organisatoren der KarmaKonsum Konferenz. /Just got this via mail from the organiser of the KarmaKonsum Conference.
Lustige Sache, die auf den Straßen Frankfurts passiert ist / Funny thing happened on the streets of Frankfurt

Hallo Oliver,

eine coole Wirtschaftsmeldung aus BANKFURT - bitte verteilen, bloggen, twittern, mailen … Danke

Bulle an der Börse Frankfurt grün eingekleidet …
Am frühen Morgen (5:22h) des 18. Juni 2009 haben Wirtschaftsaktivisten im Vorfeld der KarmaKonsum Konferenz 2009 den Bullen vor dem Frankfurter Börsenpakett grün eingekleidet und mit einem Schriftzug < Grünes Wirtschaftswunder > markiert.

Ziel dieser Aktion ist es, die Verantwortlichen in Politik und Wirtschaft auf die Potenziale neuen Wirtschaftens hinzuweisen. In den nächsten zwei Tagen kommen rund 600 Teilnehmer aus ganz Deutschland zur dritten KarmaKonsum Konferenz nach Frankfurt.

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(updated  May 24th, 2009) Here are some nice phrases which you can print on your running shirt. I shamelessly copied many of them from the German Runner’s World forum. Others I have copied from the series of tubes/interweb. The German ones are at the bottom. Do you have cool sayings for running shirts? Use the comment function at the bottom!

Hier sind einige Sprüche, die man gut auf das Läuferschirt anbringen kann. Viele habe ich aus den Foren von runnersworld.de schamlos kopiert. Andere habe ich aus dem Rest des Internets kopiert. Die deutschen Sprüche sind unten. Hast du coole Sprüche drauf? Dann einfach die Kommentarfunktion nutzen!

Marathon/Long runs suitable - funny

• “Before you run a marathon, you never really learn to curse.”
• “Any idiot can run a marathon - it takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon.” - Alan Cabelly
• “You don’t have to be an idiot to run a marathon. But it helps tremendously.”
• “Friends Don’t Let Friends Run Marathons.”
• “In my mind, I’m a Kenyan.” [click to continue…]
  

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True to “Running is a mental sport and we’re all insane” and “Any idiot can run a marathon - it takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon.” (Alan Cabelly)

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Yesterday was the Cologne Night Run (10,5 km), the race was really cool, though in the beginning I had some trouble starting. I sometimes like to start way in the back and work myself to the front. This time I did so. From about 3000 participants, I was one of the last starters. What I didn’t anticipate was that there were so many narrow paths in the beginning. I had to wrestle my way through and on the stairs (there were a few of them) many people decided to walk up… slowly. So I lost a lot of time during the first 3-4 kms. After that it was getting better. In the end I finished in 53:04 (401st out of 1542 men), which is an average of 5:03min/km, which is only 6-7 secs/km faster than the average of my half marathon a few days earlier.

After running with my first running group this week, I’m thinking about joining another group which does a bit of harder training (including intervals). Let’s see. My weight was at 82,0 kg the next morning, which made me happy since I had something around 85,4 kg a week ago. (But I suppose this is mostly water weight and I think I ate a LOT last week when I weighed myself.)

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Today I ran my first half marathon after the birch pollen allergy season, where I have to stay out of races for 4-6 weeks. After the vacation in Jakarta, Indonesia in January (it’s hard to find a running spot there) and some races in February and march, I had to stay out most of April and May - so I lost 11 whole minutes from my half marathon record of 1:38:33. I ran a 1:49:26… it was quite hill-y in small Paffendorf, but still 11 minutes is waaay too much. I guess not training as intensively has a huuuge effect. And I’ve gained 4 kgs since the last half marathon (due to vacations, exams, allergy season, work). [click to continue…]

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Stop reading this post and get to work!

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Having tweeted with @mueslikind, she said Wikipedia is a woman, while I think Wikipedia is a man. Here are 4 definitive reasons why it’s a man.

1. It thinks it knows everything.
It will spill its knowledge on anything, from Energy Policy Rulings to Luhmann’s system theory and everyday - apparently - it knows even more. Uhuh. [click to continue…]

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