Personal

These are a few of my favourite things:

• running; personal bests (no time is “official”; distances calculated with onthegomap):

  • 5 km in 19:28 (on track)

  • 15 km in 59:38

  • 21.1 km in 1:25:31

  • 42.2 km in <3:29 (haven’t done much of this)

  • longest run (trail): 50 km (08.2024)

• cycling:

  • longest ride: 211 km (09.2024)

  • top total ascent: 3556 m (08.2025 – Col de la Cayolle + Col des Champs + Col d’Allos)

  • fastest 40 km: 1:07:31 (01.2021 – Albert Park course in Melbs)

  • hardware:

    • road bike: Shimano 105 2x11 groupset, 50/34T chainring, 11-28T (flat) or 11-34T (climbs) cassette, carbon frame (not too expensive), 700x28C tyres, Cateye BM45 rear-view mirror (it’s tiny), Garmin Speed Sensor 2 + Cadence Sensor 2 (not worth the money, try Magene S3)

    • “gravel” aka “ride to work” bike: Shimano GRX-400 2x10 groupset, 46/30T chainring, 11-34T cassette, alu frame (good enough for commuting), 700x40C tyres, Magene S3 speed/cadence dual-mode sensors (they do the trick)

    • Magene H303 Heart Rate Monitor (higher quality than Garmin’s HRM-TRI)

    • trainer: Elite Avanti; software: Auuki on Android, GoldenCheetah on Linux (together with a cheap USB ANT+ stick), neither suits all my needs, but they are the closest to what I would like to see (TODO: check out pycycling)

  • my cycling season starts on 1 Jan and ends on 31 Dec lol

  • climb log:

    • French Alps (08.2025)

      • Col de la Faucille (⇆ Gex)

      • Col de la Joux Verte (↻ Montriond)

      • Lacets de Montvernier (⇆ Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne) ⭐

      • Col du Glandon + Lac de Grand Maison + Col de la Croix de Fer (⇆ Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne, ↺ La Chambre, ↑2506 m, ↔92 km) ⭐

      • Alpe d’Huez (⇆ La Paute) 🥱

      • Col d’Allos (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard, ↑1727 m, ↔83 km) ⛈️

      • Col de la Cayolle + Col des Champs + Col d’Allos (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard, ↻ Barcelonnette, ↑3556 m, ↔150 km)

      • Col de Vars (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard)

      • Cime de la Bonette (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard, ↑1753 m, ↔59 km) ⭐

      • Col de Turini (↺ Sospel, ↑2286 m, ↔77 km)

    • Italian Alps (08.2025)

      • Passo Stelvio (⇆ Sondrio, ↑2044 m, ↔84 km)

      • Passo del Mortirolo + Passo di Gavia (↺ from/to Sondrio, ↑2919 m, ↔110 km) 🥵

    • Slovenian Alps (08.2025)

      • Gora Plateau (↻ Gojače, ↷ Ajdovščina-Predmeja-Col)

      • Vršič Pass (⇆ Kranjska Gora) 〰️

    • Bieszczady (09.2024)

      • Wetlina-Dołżyca-Polańczyk-Baligród-Cisna-Przełęcz nad Roztokami-Cisna-Wetlina (↑2008 m, ↔129 km)

  • ever-growing climb bucket list (work in progress):

    • Stelvio Pass from Gomagoi

    • Cime de la Bonette from Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée

    • Pyrenees

    • Dolomites

    • …

• hiking (Bieszczady, the French, Slovenian, and Austr(al)ian Alps, …)

• modding my mini-campervan

• bouldering (V4+), vie ferrate/Klettersteige

• Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, and Blackadder

• jazz (John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Vijay Iyer, …), “classical” music (Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Chopin, …), ethnic music (Orkiestra Świętego Mikołaja, Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo), and hip hop

• José Saramago’s books, Donald Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming and Concrete Mathematics

• Lars von Trier’s films, Rejs, Miś

• GNU/Linux: current flavour: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + KDE