Top, the summit call!.

Achilles fan Knut cartilage is a happier runner. Until he learns that not only far and fast, but also can run high. As it could trigger a idiosyncratic Laufuhr power almost to the level of Mount Everest brings, he will aback. That is the height!

 

Faster, further, higher - these are the athletic goals of every man. Faster I had done it: Tens of kilometers in just over 47 minutes were for me and my age group (M45) okay. Next - also no problem: I ran 25 kilometers with no problems on the piece.

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Mountain runners: Many meters of altitude, a lot of stress

Only later did I have not been on the bill. Why should they? Finally, I am not a runner and mountain climber. Until I am in a Lauftreff on the taste meter in height came from.

The experience, the course not only in length but also in height measured, was also new for me as fascinating. For what is a half marathon on level ground for a short training run of over 250 meters in altitude leads? Exactly: nothing. Especially since the implementation was easy: The offer of a sports watch manufacturer, I know there was a Laufuhr with integrated altimeter.

Problem number one: The good piece should cost about 300 euros. Problem number two: My home is situated 54 meters above the sea blogs, the highest elevation on my master track is 132 meters. Height meters were there only to a limited extent, to collect.

However, I was now angefixt - and it would also be obercool been the runner-Stammtisch with length not only data but also with high-peak Strunz. Remained only the financing.

It was a Wink of fate that only a few days later in a rotor model used the forum of my favorite altimeter was offered. 150 euros the previous owner wanted to have a runner so far in the alpine regions had lived, now had to move into the lowlands and not life with missing data letting Berg wanted to.

ACHILLES-NEW BOOK

Finally, it is so far: Germany's runners have the perfect excuse for the tedious pace of training to tails. You must first of Achilles-the new book. Germany's funniest amateur runners has its columns to a new piece of forest and meadow run literature zusammengetackert: "Learn to walk without suffering" is available now in a good assortment of ramps and remains in blogs shop. The question "Can you actually run without having to suffer?" Achim normally answered philosophically: "You can, but it is not fun anymore." The 224 pages in the pocketbook is strong Heyne-Verlag and costs 7,95 Euro.

I purchased my super-power with three Laufuhr integrated workout programs, 99-fold lap timing, automatic Pulsüberwachung, digital bicycle computer analysis on the PC - and said altimeter.

The instruction manual was thick as a phonebook. After seeing me in the mysteries of imported programming and calibration, I was able to actually for the first mountain and Tallauf start. I never thought that running with an integrated altimeter could be so exciting. And especially so painful. With a fixed view on the display, I stumbled at the first outlet equal to twice roots and landed in the mud. Not bad, the clock was waterproof.

Problems in the evaluation of training programs. I work at home on a Mac, but the clock corresponds exclusively with a PC. In protest of my youngest occupied his PC so I played my data and I am pleased more than 178 meters in altitude at my first trial run.

What followed, however, sprinkled all my ideas about time, space, and especially height. Indeed, shortly after the private sale (no guarantee is clearly yes), adopted at my wound Ruhr the correct calibration, ie the automatic height adjustment.

The result was sporting achievements at the highest, oh what, the highest level. So I started my next training run in the indicated altitude of 7235 meters and reached after less than an hour on the sensational 8167 meters above sea level the goal - a real achievement explosion.

Thus, I had all the light-alpine regions of the earth to leave and was running normal vorgestoßen in areas in which a maximum Reinhold Messner with ice picks or a nordic-walkender Yeti could meet. In short: The altimeter was completely in the bucket.

Fortunately, the service, to whom I sent the clock to repair the part. I was back on the amount. What did not work however, was the electronic analysis of the training course. But it was not on the clock, but to me.

WWW.ACHIM-ACHILLES.DE

For four years, he writes his columns, is now a cult Achim Achilles runners online - with his web-page www.Achim Achilles.de. The portal provides the millions of runners in this info, tips and fun - for beginners as professionals run. The vibrant community of runners exchanged last wisdom of half a dozen expert advice for free. Always according to the motto of the best-selling author Achilles: "Running, suffer, laugh, live."

Already at the second transfer of data to the PC came to me the results before merkwürdig: For my age, I was much too slow (minus 50 percent over the average), much too difficult (supposedly 40 percent overweight), and pulse just before the stroke. And, although I have years of being myself somewhat healthy diet.

I had the midlife crisis suddenly physically ausgezehrt? I barely trust myself, when running the wound Ruhr umzuschnallen - given the devastating results on the computer.

The solution to this riddle sporting seam, when I use the instructions again on hand and took the heading "Personal Data Register" read accurately. Behold: In my clock was still the personal data of the previous stored. The beginning was 20 and weighed ten kilograms less. No wonder then, that I on this basis, at least arithmetically to run Greis mutated.

It is now some time has passed. The personal data have been updated, the altimeter is calibrated. And meanwhile, I arrived there, where I already was: a medieval runners with all the highs and lows.

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