Today, eimann invited me for a movie at his house, because its been a while since we had the pleasure and because tomorrow, he’s off for work in Munich. I accepted and started looking for a way to get to him quickly and without having to pay that much…
First possibility had been: “taking my parents car” … but it was unavailable, so the backup plan became a victim of my treatment… “public transport”. Public transport in this area is something you like as much as eating rotten eggs… because if you want to get somewhere, there never is a line, going that way or its canceled due to shedule changes or the driver got sick and there is no backup… or sometimes the driver simply doesn’t want to drive the sheduled line but another one. So that plan also wasn’t a real choice… the backup backup plan was my new bike. I got it some weeks ago and the odometer was only at 21 till today. Its was cold, it was scary and icy weather and the ground was frozen in large areas… but it was no use… i accepted, so I had to go. Because its a “long” (if you are a skinny nerd its damn long) way of 12.3km to go, I preferred taking the car since I had the driving license and so the last time I went to Eimann by bike dates back about 2 years. Since I really like my new bike and since my training fell behind really really badly in the last 2 years, I also looked at this was like it was a challenge against my inner temptation.
Because even I’m considering myself as a nerd, there isn’t any way to do sports without the special technical touch. So I took my GARMIN Foretrex 201 with me and mounted it on the bike to record a speed graph… watch this one (its the way to Eimann, speed plotted over time):
20.52km/h average speed, 26,8km/h max speed, 12.33km distance, total time 36:06 minutes
So as you can easily see, I really am out of training… when I arrived at Eimann’s, I was nearly dead, out of breath, out of power, out of order, out of everything… and seariously soaked… because my clothes were dimensioned for the sibirian winter…
We watched “Robots”, laughed alot and when I wanted to go home at about 19:00, I mounted my GPS again (it had some trouble with the signal at the begin of my trip, so the graph is a bit messy) and started the trip homewards… look at this piece of unbelievable embarrassment:
16,52km/h average speed, 23,6km/h max speed, 11,67km distance, total time 42:23 minutes
So I am even more out of training than I thought. Its very good, that I arrived at home alive, cause I really doubted that during my way back (mind that the way to Eimann is at most parts aslope… so the way back was ascending, and I still was nearly dead from the way to Eimann… and so everything went further more out of order 
). I will train very well the next months to get into a better condition.
The (still dead) Starseeker
. He fixed it really well and now we’re going to experience less DNS breakdowns, I hope.