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): ↔60 km, ↑2206 m @8:45 min./km (net) (09.2025)

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

    • top highest ascent: Triglav 2864 m (↻ Trenta, ↑2679 m, ↔31 km, 12 h) 🥵 (08.2026)

  • 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 (flat): 1:07:31 (01.2021 – Albert Park course in Melbs)

    • hardware:

      • road bike: Shimano 105 2x11 groupset (manual), 50/34T chainring, 11-12-13-14-15-17-19–23-25-28-32T cassette (actually, two Shimano cassettes combined), carbon frame (not too expensive), 700x28C tubeless tyres, Cateye BM45 rear-view mirror (it’s practical), 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 (manual), 46/30T chainring, 11-12-13-14-15-17-19-21-24-28T cassette, alu frame (good enough for commuting), 700x40C tyres, Cateye BM45 rear-view mirror, Magene S3 speed/cadence dual-mode sensors

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

      • iGPSPORT BiNavi

      • trainer: Elite Avanti + iGPSPORT BiNavi or Auuki on Android or GoldenCheetah on Linux (together with a cheap USB ANT+ stick)

    • climb log:

      • French Alps

        • Col de la Faucille (⇆ Gex) (08.2025)

        • Col de la Joux Verte (↻ Montriond) (08.2025)

        • Lacets de Montvernier (⇆ Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne) ⭐ (08.2025)

        • Col du Glandon + Lac de Grand Maison + Col de la Croix de Fer (⇆ Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne, ↺ La Chambre, ↑2506 m, ↔92 km) ⭐ (08.2025)

        • Alpe d’Huez (⇆ La Paute) 🥱 (08.2025)

        • Col d’Allos (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard, ↑1727 m, ↔83 km) ⛈️ (08.2025)

        • Col de la Cayolle + Col des Champs + Col d’Allos (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard, ↻ Barcelonnette, ↑3556 m, ↔150 km) (08.2025)

        • Col de Vars (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard) (08.2025)

        • Cime de la Bonette (⇆ la Condamine-Châtelard, ↑1753 m, ↔59 km) ⭐ (08.2025)

        • Col de Turini (↺ Sospel, ↑2286 m, ↔77 km) (08.2025)

        • Col de la Madeleine + Col du Chaussy (↺ Saint-Jean-de Maurienne, ↑2363 m, ↔81 km) (08.2026)

        • Lacets de Montvernier + Col du Chaussy (↺ Saint-Jean-de Maurienne, ↑1203 m, ↔48 km) (08.2026)

        • Col du Galibier + Col du Lautaret (⇆ Valloire, ↑1799 m, ↔52 km) ⭐ (08.2026)

        • Col du Granon (⇆ Saint-Chaffrey, ↑1058 m, ↔24 km) (08.2026)

        • Col d’Izoard (↺ Les Vigneaux, ↑1896 m, ↔95 km) ⭐ (08.2026)

        • Colle delle Finestre (⇆ Pourrieres, ↑767 m, ↔22 km) (08.2026)

        • Col de l’Iseran (⇆ Lanslevillard, ↑1504 m, ↔61 km) (08.2026)

        • Col du Mont-Cenis (⇆ Lanslevillard) (08.2026)

      • Italian Alps

        • Passo Stelvio (⇆ Sondrio, ↑2044 m, ↔84 km) (08.2025)

        • Passo del Mortirolo + Passo di Gavia (↺ Sondrio, ↑2919 m, ↔110 km) 🥵 (08.2025)

      • Slovenian Alps

        • Gora Plateau (↻ Gojače, ↷ Ajdovščina-Predmeja-Col) (08.2025)

        • Kolovrat (↺ Kobarid, ↑1663 m, ↔101 km) (08.2026)

        • Vršič Pass + Predel Pass + Wurzenpass (↺ Kranjska Gora, ↑2392 m, ↔111 km) (08.2026)

      • Bieszczady

        • Wetlina-Dołżyca-Polańczyk-Baligród-Cisna-Przełęcz nad Roztokami-Cisna-Wetlina (↑2008 m, ↔129 km) (09.2024)

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

      • Stelvio Pass from Gomagoi

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

      • Pyrenees

      • Dolomites

      • …

  • first aid (certified Emergency Medical Responder)/TCCC/CLS, survival, psychology, sports science

  • modding my mini-campervan and my bikes

  • bouldering (V4+), vie ferrate/Klettersteige

  • jazz (John Coltrane, Miguel Zenón, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Vijay Iyer, …), “classical” music (Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, …), “ethnic” music (Orkiestra Świętego Mikołaja, Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo, …), progressive metal (Gojira, SOAD, Mastodon, Metallica, …) and of course Polish, Aussie, and Kiwi hip-hop

  • Books by José Saramago, Donald Knuth (The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics, …), Carl Jung, Antoni Kępiński, Umberto Eco, …

  • Films/series: Lars von Trier’s, Kieślowski’s, Yorgos Lanthimos’, Rejs, Miś, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, …

  • GNU/Linux: current flavour = OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + KDE; favourite text editor = Kate

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