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Karl's Column - bonus points for bad weather athletes

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's column Karl Ettinger

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bonus points for bad weather athletes


Sunday afternoon in October In fine weather, the roads to the lakes in the cities are clogged with hikers, walkers, joggers and walkers. Fair-weather sports as far as the eye. Even the very last hesitate now has no excuse to remain in front of the television. look

1km from this height must be as hectic as the main road in front of a building of leaf-cutting ants.

And in the middle: me.

Again and again I have to stay behind slow walkers and groups are almost. The overtaking maneuver through the mud of the less well-developed shoulder of the walking paths. After I drag a weight to each shoe from persistently adhesive mixture of mud and gravel with me.

There should be a bonus system for bad weather athletes are introduced. When the wind whistles, the rain lashes, cold cuts and snow stuck on the face, points are awarded. The adverse weather, the higher the score distribution.

The point distribution may be done by one-euro jobbers. The distributor was sitting in his cottage at the lake by a barrier at the door. Drop by a bad-weather athletes, he gets mentioned in his bad weather bad weather sports athletes pass points. As the discount coupons, the gas stations allocated in the hope that the customer tank in the future only at a gas station that color.

With sufficient number of points receives the sports fan's certificate, he may put on like a backstage pass proudly.

Each pure good weather so the athlete must then make award winners and place together with the other pure fair-weather sports a wide enough street. He must pay homage to the Teflon-sport jacket spread out before him and other signs of recognition the bad weather sports performance.

But instead I keep running through the slalom Parkour from fair-weather day-trippers and no one knows that I am the one who makes even in the most adverse climatic conditions for life on the roads of the city parks and lakes.