personal thread. When the lockdowns were first enacted, and the Free State of Bavaria did all it could to forbid me from working, I had this idea I‘d train my ass off. Get back up to 130+km/ week, fine tune my diet, maybe even win some local races when things opened up.
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Well, things didn‘t open up. But Bavaria still didn‘t want me to work. Also, weirdly, it turns out athletic motivation and social interaction (for me at least) are intertwined, so 2+ hours a day of hard running never happened. It’s been a year of enforced idleness.
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I‘ve never trained so little in my adult past, as I‘ve trained under the forever lockdown. Less than 100km of running a week would’ve been unthinkable. I‘ve gotten unfit, but also the idleness has clouded my mind. In December I decided to address this.
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I thought I would take up lock picking. This is enjoyable, but a) I’m just not very good at it, and b) It‘s a hobby, and I was trying to fill 40+ hours a week.
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This brings me to the point of this thread. If you‘re like me, and looking for something to do, I recommend watchmaking.
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I know an old watchmaker/repairer. He died 2 years ago. Nobody else in my area knew how to fix the stuff he did. Its almost a lost art from what he described.
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I’ve had to buy reprints of old books from the 1930s. There are also some helpful youtubers, and long-dead discussion forums on the internet. It really is dying, but there’s enough there.
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I bought a book on how to tie all sorts of knots but haven't got started learning yet!
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