October 2017 – Liesl Hammer

Couch potato to 5k: how I got off my butt and started running

I was not an athletic child. Or teenager. I blame my parents. As a proactive human being I shouldn’t necessarily go the “object-relations theory” route and blame everything on my parents, but I very directly and adamantly and unabashedly blame my non-athleticism on my well-meaning parents who I love. Back in 2nd grade, I satContinue reading “Couch potato to 5k: how I got off my butt and started running”

Amateur paragliding

I went paragliding the other day! Luckily, it was me who was the amateur and not the person I was flying with. I don’t have any deep reasons for doing it. I just wanted to do it. It was either paragliding or skydiving, and paragliding was much cheaper (about $100 cheaper), so I chose toContinue reading “Amateur paragliding”