[THING015] – Half Marathon, Two Friends and 1700 Santa Clauses


1700 Santa Clauses, 21 kilometers and 149 Things. I still can’t believe that a few months ago we are watching at all these running people with some kind of jealous and questions: Why?

- Why do they run?
- Why they are so happy?
- Why I’m too fat/busy/weak to run like they?

Now, running across a forest somewhere in Poland dressed as a Santa Claus and having a few hundred people the same like us before and behind me, I know the answer. Because we’re born to run.

But first things first!
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[THING019] – Headspin – Preparation

Breakdancing, breakdancing, breakdancing. I dream about it for a few years. Time to get off my “but” and start to do some learning. At this moment I know if someone did something I also can do that thing. So my goal is a headspin.

“A headspin is an athletic move in which a person balances on their head while rotating along the vertical axis of their body, usually without any other form of support.” – Wikipedia.

So without further delay I’m starting my training.
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[THING063] – Be on a Wrestling Event – Done



We did it. That was an amazing experience. I was a fan of WWE for few years and now had possibility to watch that show here in Poland. Wow and wow.

Trip to WWE Event

Two of us (Mirek and Szymon) started our trip in Warsaw. After 7,5 hours in a train we were in Gdańsk. After three cheesburgers and a taxi ride we reached our target – Ergo Arena in Gdansk. Daniel was waiting for us in the front of Ergo Arena.
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[Thing008] See the Northern Lights – Introduction

Real Beauty


See the Northern Lights… O yes, this is something I wanted to do for a long time. I think this would be quite magical and unique experience.

From the physical point of view the Northern Lights, otherwise known as the Aurora Borealis is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the thermosphere. The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and are directed by the Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere. Discrete aurorae often display magnetic field lines or curtain-like structures, and can change within seconds or glow unchanging for hours. Displays can vary in intensity – from a glowing curtain of greenish yellow lights, dancing in the distance to a spectacular, multi-colored fusion stretching across the sky. Color of the aurora depends on the height at which occurs excitation of atoms and of the type of atom. Unfortunately with the naked eye we see ‘only’ the auroras as a greenish and white, because in dim light the eye registers the light with the stamens, which are not sensitive to colors, but only on the intensity or amount of light. Full color can be seen only in photographs.
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[THING063] – Be on a Wrestling Event – Preparation

Three of us (149Things) are going to a WWE event. First and maybe the last one in Poland. We’re so lucky. Smackdown World Tour 2011 visits Gdansk 11.11.11 (Nice numbers). Our dream to watch an event like this live comes true.

So we’re visiting  Gdansk to see some great stars like Randy Orton, the Big Show, Shameus and others. Man, that will be an amazing night.
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[THING015] – Run a Marathon – Preparation – 10K Run

Amazing feeling. I remember my beginnings. May 2011. Pain in a stomach, legs, arms, lack of air in the lungs. 6 months later I’m on the start line with my friends preparing for a 10K run. I still can’t believe…
But that’s only preparation for something bigger. Our main goal is to run a marathon… and then run 100K or even 250K run. Impossible? I don’t think so. If someone said that I could run for an hour without a break… You know what I mean.
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[THING051] – October Festival – Introduction

Oktoberfest Munich

Have you ever been to a crazy Polish wedding party that lasted for three days? Three days, ha? Not impressed? How about five days, or even whole week? Still not satisfied? What would you say for a wedding fest that last for over 200 years? On the 12th of October 1810 in Munich, King Ludwig had married Princess Therese and Germans celebrate this event since then for two weeks every year.

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[THING129] – Burning Man Project – Introduction

Burning Man - Burning Temple

Be a part of Burning Man Project

I will start with an obvious statement – one of our Things is THING[129] Be a Part of Burning Man Project. What is Burning Man? Here I will use a sentence from the official site of the event: “Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind”. As I have never been to the Burning Man event, it will be a little bit like a blind man talking about the colors – but I’ll try to do my best to paint You a Burning Man word picture and show You how I see it now.

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[THING131] – Time Capsule – Introduction

Let's Build a Time Capsule

Lately I have thought, how to build a time capsule, because probably like many of you, I have a need to leave something behind me, a trace, a sign, which will remind you that once lived someone like me. That’s why I would like to build a time capsule.

This, of course, will be my version of time capsule, consistent with my ideas, conditions and tasks.

So, to build a time capsule I need to define authors, recipients and dates of closure and opening of the time capsule. Then I need to prepare and protect content. At the end I need to put my time capsule somewhere, where it will wait for the opening.
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Get Lost in Amsterdam – Next Time. Update October 2011

Lovely place... But maybe another time.

That is maybe a lousy excuse, but we’re only human. Our trip to Amsterdam was canceled. Why? We had 8 people who wanted to go to Netherlands, unfortunatelly 5 of us had problems with schedules and we decided to cancel our trip.
Moreover, we have pretty cold autumn in Europe and we’ve decided to move our Thing002 – 72h With a Knife in a Forest for the next year.

Update – What next?
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