Immune system is essential for recovery
Sports medicine experts explain that there is a 45-minute "window" following strenuous endurance exercise when the body begins repairing damage by boosting the immune system, replenishing stores of muscle glycogen and synthesizing...
Chris MacCormack: a very special (tri)athlete
Chris McCormack failed 4 times to win this race. He says: »I had to change my attitude towards the island and the race as such to have a chance to eventually win...
Hawaii Earthquake 6.6: it was scary!
There we were, 3 earthquake experienced Californians, and one rourke from Austria. We waited. They said, they had never in their lives experienced such a strong quake. Their guess was between 6...
Experiment with telephone
This was, of course, before the earthquake. It is »Vesuvio« bar in Little Italy, San Francisco, founded by the Austrian Leo Riegler in 1948. It was a hotspot for the beat generation,...
The US may surprise you, Europeans, don’t carry too many preconceptions along
The US is always good for surprises. We as Europeans sometimes have to many preconceptions. Bush is not America.
No Running Shoes
My efforts to buy running shoes in san Francisco were not successful, despite the fact that I as walking around town for many hours.
Lurkers Outnumber Contributors 9 to 1
All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in...
«Cocaine« can it outplay »Red Bull«
Las Vegas-based Redux Beverages recently rolled out their marketing campaign for the new energy drink Cocaine. It compares in calories to Red Bull (only 70 vs. Red Bull’s 80) but weighs in...