What's your passion?

Mine is Football (or Soccer for the yankees of you ) Today FC Basel, my favourite club, you may not know them lost 5:0 against FC Barcelona, but it was fun, after 90mins, there were still 40 000 supporters shouting and jumping and the players never gave up. Thats when you know, you are on the right team.

Here some impressions from the championship Party this year:
Ivan Ergic Holding the Cup:




and here maybe the greatest game in FC Basels History. In 2001, we kicked Liverpool out of the Champions League:


now its your turn!

Sports? I love playing Ultimate. Not quite at this level, though:




My right leg is still recovering from Monday night's game (21:30 - 23:00 - 6°C, in the rain - just awesome). I really wasn't happy working the pedals by the third lap of Spa tonight .

ok so.... i cant seem to figure out how to post this properly... but if you copy and paste it should work. what i lack in computer skills i make up for on my bike.



most of these guys run fixed gear or normalish roadbikes. i run it on a cruiser class bmx. on long straights they shred me...but put us in traffic and the day is mine.

I like that Bike-race in Big Apple, just saw some offers for biking in NY here in Switzerland - never saw that before.
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Winter is getting closer. Time to change the tennis-balls with the Curling-brushes.
10 days ago we started the training and already won one local championship game.
A nice introduction on Curling is found on http://curlingbasics.com/

What fascinates me of curling are 3 things:
a) Coordination: If the direction and the lenght of the stone fit exactly, you achieve what you were trying to, most probably. But its hard to have perfect stones.
b) Team-Spirit: It's a sport of a team - you never are alone - this comforts me
c) OpenAir curling: As opposite to the playing in the center, we have some tournaments outside per year. Great fun!
Imagine: You travel through the swiss, french, italian or austrian alps and reach some place with huge loads of snow. All is white. You get up early as the tournament starts soon. It's minus 30 degrees Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) in the early morning, the sun is hidden behind the close mountains. But you know the sun will soon go up and warm everything up, the ice will behave much different, you start to sweat and put your sunglasses on.

Here some impressions:


* removed some pics - post was too long...

alphonse

slow wrote:ok so.... i cant seem to figure out how to post this properly... but if you copy and paste it should work. what i lack in computer skills i make up for on my bike.

most of these guys run fixed gear or normalish roadbikes. i run it on a cruiser class bmx. on long straights they shred me...but put us in traffic and the day is mine.

Oh can I go back to NYC? Pleeeze?
Slow, you're my man! Next time I'm around we meet up.
I'm not that mad anymore (grown old, lived in London etc.), but I definitely still see the attraction in this. Though I doubt I could keep up on my cyclo crosser, too much bagage (on the bike and on me).

Tomte wrote:
Oh can I go back to NYC? Pleeeze?
Slow, you're my man! Next time I'm around we meet up.
I'm not that mad anymore (grown old, lived in London etc.), but I definitely still see the attraction in this. Though I doubt I could keep up on my cyclo crosser, too much bagage (on the bike and on me).

hehe. indeed, let me know next time youre in town.

i actually stopped doing that particular race a few years ago. too many pedestrian injuries for my taste. an older german tourist actually had a heart attack some years ago from being frightened.

what you see in that video (thanks to whomever fixed my post) is pretty much my commute to work everyday though, minus the soundtrack.

there is absolutely nothing better than "freshies" in the morning