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Ortler, and more

By isazi | August 3, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment

To be honest, few months ago I didn’t think this would have happened. When the corona crisis began, and Europe closed its internal and external borders, I thought my alpine plans for the summer were no more.

However, I decided to keep training, once again following a plan from Uphill Athlete, for two reasons: the first, training is never wasted time. If nothing happened, I still would have added to my training bank hours upon hours of aerobic training. The second reason to keep training was that, if at some point in the summer I got green light for my alpine trip with NKBV, I would have had no time to start training, so I had to be in good shape already.

And finally in mid June, one month before the trip, we got green light. And after the trip, here I am sharing some videos I made with Suunto, highlighting the three main summits of the trip: Cima Marmotta, Zufallspitze, and the Ortler.

Zugspitze

By isazi | June 30, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment

Borders inside the European Union are basically open, so decided to travel to Germany to get some fresh air.
And, being in Garmish-Partenkirchen, I decided to climb the Zugspitze (2962 masl), the highest mountain in Germany.

You can even check the activity in 3D with Suunto.

Veluwe traverse

By isazi | June 8, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment

Since at least 2015 I have been thinking about walking in a single push from Rheden to Nunspeet, traversing the whole Veluwe in the South-North direction.
I did a few attempts, all of them ended close to Apeldoorn for a variety of reasons.

Until on the 1st of September 2019, after having watched the TMB on YouTube the day before, I decided it was time for a real attempt.
The weather forecast was good, days still long, I was alone at home and feeling right, so eventually I woke up early on that Sunday morning, took the train from Amsterdam to Rheden, and walked the whole day.

The walk was enjoyable for the most part, I felt pretty good until a bit before kilometer 50, but then hit a metaphorical brick wall, my legs became rubbish, and walking the last 6/7 kilometers was hard.
Also, at that point I could not eat anymore, I believe to have chewed my last Clif Bar for 20 minutes or so.

However, although painfully, I managed to walk the whole way from Rheden to Nunspeet, ending my hike on a sunny bench at the train station.

You can even check the activity in 3D with Suunto.

Liberazione

By isazi | April 25, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment

Every year I face this same question: what would I do if it was my turn to give myself up to fight for freedom, against tyranny and fascism?

I still don’t know how to answer. I hope that, if the day will come, I will be as brave as the people that came before me, and fight for us. Like the people of the “Brigata Maiella“, for example.

Still at home

By isazi | April 4, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment

Well, still at home here in Europe. And if you are reading this at the same time (technically a while after, but not too much) you are probably also at home. So, we are probably not doing much except working, if we work from home.

I am still training though, lots of strength work at home, and long runs and walks alone in my neighborhood. People are much better at keeping distance now, so going out became much easier.

But why I wanted to write this post is because it’s April, and usually in April I donate some money to projects I support. And with less social interaction, my consumption of media has also increased, so contributing to the livelihood of the people producing those contents is a good thing (IMHO).

And the two recipients of my (little) donations for 2020 are:
1) the Enormocast, the one and only climbing podcast, been listening to it for years, and learned so much about the lore thanks to Chris.
2) Runalyze, amazing (online) training analysis tool that I have been using only since Q4 2019, but really like; and it works for much more than running.

Also, big kudos to the TimeGhost crew (whom I support by being a patron on Patreon) for producing exceptional content. Been watching their productions since they began posting them (and watched “The Great War” before), and their content is great, quarantine or not.

Author: isazi