Category: Travel

Travel: Walldorf & Heidelberg Germany

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Work trip to Germany over 10 days. Was super busy work wise with a leadership offsite, team members visiting from Bulgaria and meeting and making new friends. Was one of my more memorable visits to the SAP HQ 🙂

Over the weekend I spent some time training in Heidelberg for the upcoming 70.3 Ironman Chattanooga Race. The “City Bad” (City Pool) was chaotic to train in, but also pretty fun versus my local YMCA 🙂 Sunday I did a big strength session, running to the top of Thingstätte, down across the river and back up the other side to Königstuhl. After walking down the 300 odd stairs last year, I really wanted to run up them, so this was the perfect opportunity. read more

Travel: New Zealand

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The flight from CLT to Auckland was pretty long, but no delays made it reasonable to survive 🙂

After landing, picking up a rental car and driving 4 hours, I managed to squeeze in a short ride, run and attend the Welcome banquet. Friday and Saturday I spent checking out the race course, getting in a practice swim and cheering on the women’s race.

Sunday was race day for me. Overall, things went pretty much according to plan.

Monday and Tuesday I spent driving from Taupo to Rotorua and then Auckland to fly out Wednesday.

Travel: Bay Area

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Not quite according to plan due to an Atmospheric River, which added some weather challenges, but had a great work trip with some personal elements added in for fun.

I am getting pretty good at assembling my bike in a Hertz rental garage.


The SAP San Ramon Office is not a terrible place to work for the week. Thanksgiving Pot Luck, Diwali and a trip to the Apple Campus made it extra special.

Travel: Roth, Walldorf, Heidelberg, Munich

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Due to a last minute work trip to SAP in Walldorf, some odd flights to Munich afforded me some time on either end of the travel for a few personal events to enjoy. (I generally fly to Frankfurt as it’s much closer).

A few days before the trip I noticed a famous full distance triathlon was going on in Roth, Germany, so on my drive from Munich to Roth, I made a short stop to watch.

During the work week I spent time running in a small forest area next to the office, we had a great event in Heidelberg and hiked from the top down. I also spent some time lap swimming in Walldorf, and also did a trail run along philosophers walk before heading back to Munich. read more