More than a week has passed since I packed most of my belongings and moved to Switzerland. Time flies, and with the amount of things to do here, to organize and to explore, it will probably not slow down. But at the same time I want to try my best not to let time fly by unconsciously – I want to be here for every little moment that will eventually become the building blocks of this new chapter of my life.
Read MoreI point on a peak on the map and say: let’s go there. We pack our things in the car, not much, just some clothes and food to fuel the long days out.
Read MoreI had planned to write a resume of 2022 in my diary. But we live in a digital world, and I am just as addicted to all things digital as everyone else. So, here we go: a public digital resume of my two-thousand-twenty-two.
Read MoreLately I’ve started diving more deeply into the topic of female physiology. How does being a woman affect my training and performance?
Read MoreToday I choose to see opportunities instead of limitations. Witness the beauty in the small things rather than listing all the things that don’t go the way I had planned, and then beating myself up for it.
Read MoreWhen you’re out running for 6+ hours a day for six days, you’ve got a lot of time to think. Well, actually, a lot of my time spent running the Haute Route I didn’t think about much at all. My mind was blank and a majority of the time my only focus was on setting one foot in front of the other. But there were also times when my mind was more active than others — especially when I was suffering because of the heat or lack of food or just because my body was exhausted from the long days.
Read MoreSearching for balance, without knowing what the word really means, where to find it or how long it will take until it shows up. I took a week off from training. My body and mind have been feeling off lately. What drove me to make the decision to take a break was an evening on the couch feeling exhausted and asking myself “why do I feel so tired?”.
Read MoreOn our hike yesterday, @jostkobusch and I discussed the challenges that we as humans encounter on different levels in the pyramid Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. My worries in life primarily center around the search for meaning. That’s the highest level of the pyramid, when all other needs have been satisfied.
Read MoreI live to live,
To feel the wind in my hair
Rosy cheeks from frozen air
A heart that’s beating faster
Reminding me that I live.
I see death as an inevitable part of life. Without death there can be no life, and the other way around. They are two sides of the same coin. But when it happens, unexpected and while the person is still so young, death is difficult to grasp.
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