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Ombre: August 2008

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Sonntag, 31. August 2008. What a sportif weekend! After the cycling on Friday and the great Mountainbike-Tour yesterday - there´s been a good hiking-tour on my schedule today! Together with my friends Peter and Brigitte (knowing each other since years and now being a couple since February.) we started late morning to the "Mittagskogel" - one of the most wellknown mountains in our area - standing exactly on the border-line of Austria and Slovenia (2.146 m high / 7.040 feet). Samstag, 30. August 2008.

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Ombre: Crazy run-event

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Donnerstag, 20. November 2008. Since a couple of years some friends meet once a year - to run up a pass-road in Slovenia, just across the border - half an hour from home. Starting a bit outside the City of Krajnska Gora - the winding road (24 sharp bends! Is bringing you from about 800 m (2.630 ft.) altitude in less then 10 kilometers up to 1.611 m (5.298 ft.) above sealevel to the mountain-pass called "Vrsic"! The road was really steep (up to 14 % gradient! And the run has. Villach, Carinhtia, Austria.

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Ombre: September 2008

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Montag, 29. September 2008. Happy 40, my French brother! Since more than 6 years Emmanuel from Angers (France) and myself can call each other very close friends! Being National IRO´s from our Round Table Association at the same periode we met the first time in some international meetings. Our friendship was growing from meeting to meeting and reached a real personal highlight in 2004 when Emmanuel (called "Manu") asked me to be his wedding-witness in Angers! Now, 10 days ago Manu got 40 (! My boss, Direc...

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Ombre: Full Moon-Hiking

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Donnerstag, 20. November 2008. My friends from Round Table 12 Leibnitz (the organisers from last week´s Pheasant Dinner) told me about their plan to go on a hiking-tour Saturday night (two days after this month´s full moon) - and invited me to join them. We met about in the middle of the road from our two cities (about 1:15 h driving from Villach) - at a ski-ressort called "Weinebene". What a fantastic feeling! White underground - and white light from above. - really ungredibly wonderful! I really enjoye...

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Ombre: November 2008

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Montag, 24. November 2008. Half-Marathon - New Personal Record! After finishing a half-marathon in quite a good time at the beginning of October - I felt that I even could do faster - I´m feeling to be in a fantastic shape (maybe better than in my best-running-periode 5 years ago.)! Through a friend I learned about this half-marathon-event in Palmanova (Italy) - about 150 km from Villach - so, another focus had been defined. This Sunday, early morning - after a "pasta-breakfast" (traditional for me!

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Ombre: Half-Marathon - New Personal Record!!!

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Montag, 24. November 2008. Half-Marathon - New Personal Record! After finishing a half-marathon in quite a good time at the beginning of October - I felt that I even could do faster - I´m feeling to be in a fantastic shape (maybe better than in my best-running-periode 5 years ago.)! Through a friend I learned about this half-marathon-event in Palmanova (Italy) - about 150 km from Villach - so, another focus had been defined. This Sunday, early morning - after a "pasta-breakfast" (traditional for me!

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Ombre: Pheasant-Dinner in Leibnitz

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Montag, 17. November 2008. Also our tabler-friends from Trieste, Italy, are coming to this event year after year - and especially this time in a good number! After doing bowling in the afternoon ( as a rainy weather program) - where we had an international match Austria vs. Italy (I´ve been called upon the Italian Crew - and we´ve lost.) - we went to this fantastic dinner in the evening! Food has been really great, wine.excellent, fun.big, bar.well equipped, night.very long! Villach, Carinhtia, Austria.

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Ombre: Oktober 2008

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Montag, 27. Oktober 2008. Round Table Austria Half Yearly. This weekend we had our National Half Yearly Meeting in Knittelfeld. Styria / about 160 km north-east) - organised by our dear friends of Round Table 43! I drove there already Friday lunch-time as we had a National P.R.-Board meeting at 1.30 pm and the National Board Meeting from 3 to 7 pm. - Right after finishing the working-session and welcoming many good tabler-friends we really could get the party started! Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Table ...

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Ombre: Round Table Charity

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Samstag, 6. Dezember 2008. Our main money-raising every year happens end of November/beginning of December - this time already for the sixth time! Round Table Villach is organising a sports lottery - called "TOP 10 Lottery"! Ten famous Austrian sportsmen - like Olympic Champions, World-Champions, Worldcup-Overallwinners, .etc. - are making personal sport-items available to our lottery! Top-donnor this year: Double-Olympic-Champion Benjamin Raich! And are offering our lottery-tickets to our visitors.