Finally, I made a successful attack on my by now two years old PR from Hamburg…. this past weekend in Zürich was thus such a delight featuring a great marathon race and the impressions of the very nice and accommodable city of Zürich.
You can find my full coverage of the race here. Enjoy !
It is amazing what you can experience during just one weekend !
Fly down to Paris, collect the bib number, see parts of the city and do some shopping, eat, sleep and then up and run Paris marathon 2008 Sunday. Run, run, run… then a shower, jump to the Metro, race to Le Louvre… and walk back to the bus to the airport… fly, fly, fly… train.. and back in your own bed Sunday evening. Great !!!
The marathon ? Just awesome !!! See the picures and video here !
Recently, I attended a very good and interesting course on ‘Communication’ … yes, the kind of stuff we all fail to deal with every day at some level or in some situation. Part of the course material was a short introduction to Transaction Analysis (TA) which I found to be a very useful tool for the processing and evaluation of the everyday communication, be it professionally, as a parent, a partner or whatever.
Basically, TA is about considering ego-states and analyzing communication patterns on that premise. The basic model is shown on the illustration below.
So, what is the deal here ? The deal is that when we communicate transactions should be complementary (parallel) rather than crossed… that is, problems and poor comminication outcomes are more likely to occur in the latter case.
So… as one says ‘it takes two to communicate’ … well yes, and TA is about analyzing from which ego-states the two persons are ‘acting’ from. For business and professional purposes the ideal is to have a parallel transaction on the adult (=objective) level.
Now as a Runner… can this be useful ? Well… when you blend in the ideas of personality parts from Psychosynthesis I believe you can ! I’ll have to think more about this and will elaborate in a future article. But for sure I think it will be meaningful to analyze one’s inner communication and self-talk inspired by the above model and concepts, especially when it comes to either quiting something or holding on forcefully.
‘Who’ are your inner actors and how do they communicate ? What does it mean to your motivation and to your results ?
My next marathon coming up this eastern is the very tough ‘Brutalis marathon’ in Aalborg, Denmark… for sure one of the toughest marathons in Denmark ! The route comprises three extreme hills, one being very long and two being very steep … and all this must be managed six times !
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See the route here ! And see you there !! 😉
Regards…. Tor 😉
Being a race Director what can more pleasing than having happy and satisfied customers ? Feeling the excitement and passion of all the participants ? That is just GREAT !
Well, this past Sunday 24-Feb-2008 the fourth event of GARMIN Rudersdal marathon took place and everything went according to schedule ! What a delight ! So… I really enjoy looking back on this day…
… you can join me by viewing the pictures and video here !