Sports, fitness, cycling, and outdoor activities.
Image courtesy of Josh Root.
As part of Automattic’s Grand Meetup this year, I got to go to the last game of the San Francisco Giants this season. We had early entrance tickets to hang out in one of their lounges and watch warm ups, when I had my tweet featured on the Giants’ scoreboard!
Growing up, I was a huge Formula One fan. I started watching when I was ten years old, cheering on Michael Schumacher while he won Championship after Championship. Today it is Sebastian Vettel who continues the German domination of the series. Much like soccer put a lot of cities in Europe on the map for me, Formula One did the same around the world, including Montréal.
It was a special and unique experience for me, not only to visit this place that I saw in TV countless times, but to be able to bike on the track and take it in (almost) from a pilots perspective! Having been there today has definitely re-instilled my love for the sport and I can not wait to visit a race for the first time! Continue reading
In ongoing effort to get myself out of my appartement (I work from home, so it truly is my castle), I decided to learn how to golf. It’s an outside activity, I can call it sport (without any actual physical effort), it’s mostly in beautifully landscaped surroundings, and I might even get to meet people outside my work or family.
I found that the Get Golf Ready program is a perfect fit for that. It’s designed to teach adults how to play golf with beginner golf lessons. For an affordable $99, you get five lessons that get you started with the game: putting, chipping, full shots, drive, a.s.o. Exactly what I was looking for!
Today I went for my first lesson:
Everyone knows you play 18 holes of golf, but today I learned that two strokes out of every par (a predetermined number of strokes required to complete a hole) are considered to be putting strokes, on average half of all strokes in a round of golf! So putting is super important, which is why we started with that. We’re a very diverse group of five student, who were let by a great golf instructor/teacher. He’s really enthusiastic and made the lesson today really fun! He took a lot of time and went well beyond the scheduled 90mins of instructions, touching all kinds of different subjects, from putting (of course), to golf rules, to etiquette, and even a short intro to the golf carts they use there.
Two Trees from the Olivas Links Golf Course.
I had a great time today and a lot of fun. I can not wait to learn more, and might just go back and practice some putting on my own now!
The U.S. National Anthem, performed by the USC Marching Band at USC’s Spring Game in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on March 13th, 2013.
Konstantin Obenland 