Teesche Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tim Teege
What can we do to improve our lives? Two things: 🧠💪 Aim for a healthy mind in a healthy body! I read at least 12 books and run at least 12 marathons per year just to make sure 📚🏃. Whenever there’s a particularly interesting topic, book, or running race, I have been blogging about it extensively since 2011 at teesche.com. This podcast is narrated versions of those posts so you can take them with you on your next run!
The original blog post
My sold company 200 OK GmbH
My other sold company “Carbon Checkmate”
My book of the year #1: Utopia for Realists
My book of the year #2: Useful Not True
My book of the year #3: A Therapeutic Journey
All the marathons I ran in 2024
My first Sub-3 Marathon blog post (Bienwald)
My second Sub-3 Marathon blog post (Hamburg)
My current status at Western States 100 qualification
The Western States website
My Zugspitz Ultratrail blog post
My bucket list
My Chicago Marathon 2024 blog post
My sub-page about my World Marathon Majors status
Me experiencing water-only fasting
Me learning how to juggle
My fun little side hustle, Speechbox
My blog post about revamping Speechbox in 2024
My blog post about being an official marathon pacemaker
My blog post about streak running after my 1,000th consecutive day
How I quit smoking back in 2015
My inspiration behind many running related things, Michael Mankus
The new GPS watch I use, a COROS PACE Pro
My friend Patrick who also enjoys #EverySingleStreet
CityStrides, the web-app I use for tracking #EverySingleStreet
Tuscany Crossing official website
CCC, a 100k mountain race during the Ultratrail du Mont-Blanc week
My friend Nico who inspired me to pursue a new personal best at the marathon
Bienwald Marathon official website
Martin Grüning, my new running coach
Barcelona Marathon official website
My blog post about Challenge Roth back in 2017
My corresponding blog post at the end of 2023 with and outlook to 2024
My blog post about the 4th Munich Breweries Ultra
Munich Breweris Ultra official website – sign up!
The New York Times Wordle
Some of the automatically tracked data about me I publish
The Yearly Theme approach
My blog post about finding a new profession, “Project System Elephant”
The blog post
My own regenerative stats and counter since I quit
Yuval Noah Harari’s book “Homo Deus” – which talks about how our brains work
The free cost saving calculator I built for you
The original blog post
“Project System Elephant” blog post
The website I made for this idea, www.moon-marathon.com
The original blog post
The six World Marathon Majors
My Chicago Marathon qualifier: Hamburg 2022
My report on Berlin Marathon 2013
My report on London Marathon 2015
My report on Boston Marathon 2023
My report on New York City Marathon 2023
Chicago Style headline capitalization
The Marathon to Athens Marathon
Sydney Marathon joined the Majors
My Manhattan perimeter run report
“The Power Broker” by Robert A. Caro book
The Power Broker Breakdown series on the 99% Invisible podcast
Episode #10 mentioning the Blue Line in Chicago
My EU Marathons project of doing all capital city marathons
Jonas Deichmann’s Challenge 120: 120 long distance triathlons in a row
Join us in Munich on May 31st for the 5th Munich Breweries Ultra!
My Rennsteiglauf report, featuring a great finish line area
The Strava stats of my Chicago Marathon 2024 race
The original blog post
What’s a “Privatier”?
The book “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber on my bookshelf
The blog post
My first huge mountain ultra trail race
Ron Hill, the most famous streak runner
Streak Runners International, Inc.
The UTC timezone
The ultra race I wanted to do right after a challenging travel schedule
Boston Marathon 2023, my story
It destroyed my toe: my favorite non-alcoholic beer
My Zugspitz Ultra Trail story
One of the personal bests I improved during the streak
Longest run during the streak: Lavaredo 120K
What it was like to be coached
How I tried and failed to run a sub three hour marathon, a few months into the streak
My blog post about running a 75k race commemorating my late father-in-law’s 75 year long life
The list of all active streaks worldwide
The ranking in Germany, including me in 66th position
My buddy and fellow streak runner Guy Almog
Guy’s wonderful video about streak running, made by HOKA
Sign up for the Munich Breweries Ultra 2025! Guy and I are in the team creating it
Streak running influencer, Hellah Sidibe
Hellah’s transcontinental USA run
The Western States 100 Endurance Run
A podcast episode on Everyday Ultra where Hellah appeared as a guest
What I intended to do in 2022: Run every day of January
In March I wanted to keep going
A year later, I stated that this wasn’t the end either
The streak run by Forrest Gump in the movie, dissected by a fan
Rob Pope, who ran the full Forrest Gump streak route, sporting the outfit even
The original blog post
Pacer Team
Flensburg Marathon
My Strava profile
CEP, the Pacer Team sponsor
The World Marathon Majors
My total marathon race count
My first time running Flensburg – blog post
The Strava activity of this pacing marathon
Link to the blog post
The Western States 100 Endurance Run
Western States qualifier races list
My mozart 100 race report (2021)
My Templiers race report (2022)
My Lavaredo 120K race report (2023)
Altra shoes brand
Hoka shoes brand
Topo shoes brand
Breaking 3:00h in a marathon at Bienwald Marathon
Breaking 3:00h at Hamburg Marathon
The 4th Munich Breweries Ultra
Russ Cook, Englishman running everywhere
Till F on Instagram, generous provider of the LEKI poles I used
Ultra running legend Courtney Dauwalter
Alexi Pappas’ book “Bravey”
A run I did honoring my late father-in-law Peter
Till S on Strava, who gave me tips on this race
Henning on Instagram
Guy on Instagram
My first ever mountain marathon
A trail 50k in New Zealand I loved
Germany’s most famous entry level ultra marathon, “Rennsteiglauf”
My first ever 100k run
Nico on Instagram
My experience at New York City Marathon in 2023
A painter who’s famous for one picture of a guy overlooking misty mountains
When I tried to break 3:00h at a marathon in 2022 but landed at 3:00:40
The race I’m eyeing for 2025: “CCC” in Chamonix, France
My Strava tracking of Zugspitz 2024
Nina on Instagram
My plans for 2024
Marathons & Books Counter
Jonas Deichmann, currently setting a world record in most consecutive iron distance triathlons
The band I saw play live right after returning from Zugspitz, “Polyphia”
The bookshelf page
Buy the book here
My thoughts about Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homo Deus”
My thoughts about Michael E. Gerber’s “The E-Myth Revisited”
Link to the blog post
Blog post of the 1st Munich Breweries Ultra in 2021
www.munichbreweriesultra.beer
Inspired by this Belgian Great Breweries Marathon
The PGI seal of the E.U.
What makes “Münchner Bier”?
Augustiner, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Spaten, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu, Giesinger, Münchner Kindl
@breweryrunners in Instagram
The cool hotel I booked in Munich
Jonas Deichmann and his Challenge 120
My challenge to break three hours in the marathon
Enthalpy
My Strava activity of the run
The bookshelf page
Buy the book
My bookshelf page of “Sapiens”
My blog post at the beginning of 2024 where I share similar ideas
CGP Grey’s video “Humans Need Not Apply”
The original blog post
My first iron distance triathlon race
My second iron distance triathlon race
My third iron distance triathlon race
My forth iron distance triathlon race
My former company HoneyPower
My former company Carbon Checkmate
My former company 200 OK
The story of my 3:00:40 Hamburg Marathon finish of 2022
My goals for 2024
Bienwald Marathon Sub-3 race and training report
The greatest triathlon race on earth: Challenge Roth
Schweriner Seentrail Ultramarathon
BremenSanktPauli 100 Miler
Wilhelmsburger Insellauf half marathon
My New York City Marathon blog post
My London Marathon blog post
BinnenAlsterUltra: 50k in 30 laps around Binnenalster
injinji toe socks – blister proof running bliss
Henning’s Instagram
Maiken’s Instagram
Micha’s Instagram
The Strava tracking of this marathon race
My first marathon race training effort using the Peter Greif method
Frankfurt Marathon 2019 report
Cologne Marathon 2023 Sub-3 fail race report
Festival des Templiers 104k DNF race report
Madrid Marathon race report
Vienna Marathon race report
Hamburg Marathon 2021 #runsolo during the pandemic
Hamburg Marathon 2021 #runsolo CLOCKWISE edition
My Boston Marathon 2023 race report
Link to the blog post
www.speechbox.chat
Kevin Kelly’s essay “1,000 True Fans”
The Notion app I use for task tracking and everything else
A blog post showcasing my love for endurance running
Link to the blog post
My take on Peter Greif's 8 Week Countdown to Marathon plan
Frankfurt Marathon 2017 race report (3:17h)
Here I set the Sub-3 goal first, back in 2020
Running coach JP Hendriksen
Race report of Hamburg Marathon 3:00:40h
Fail #2 blog post, Cologne Marathon 2022
How Mathias’ personal run coaching plan worked
My New York City Marathon 2023 race report
Information about Streak Running
Zwift virtual bike riding
The 6 World Marathon Majors
CityStrides, a tool to track the #EverySingleStreet running project
My prolific friend Patrick’s Instagram
The Fitbod app I use for strength training
Bienwald Marathon official website
Runalyze calculates some data about your running
Chris’ story about reaching Sub-3, and another blog post of his about it
Where I got the Bienwald recommendation from: Ultra legend Michael Mankus
Fast Karsten’s awesome Instagram
My Boston Marathon 2023 race report
My review of the COROS PACE 3 watch I’m using for running tracking
The great and super-fast HOKA Rocket X2 shoes
The Strava activity of this race
The Quantified Self section on my blog’s frontpage
My 28 EU capital marathons project
My first ever IRONMAN race finish report
Link to the blog post
LIFE iOS App to track fasting
My morning routine
MrBeast’s video on his 30 day water-only fasting challenge
A study which claims to have found health benefits of fasting
Yuval Noah Harari’s book “Sapiens”, my thoughts on it
Link to the blog post
Author Seth Godin’s website
Seth Godin’s blog post about juggling #1
Seth Godin’s blog post about juggling #2
Seth Godin’s blog post about juggling #3
Seth Godin on YouTube talking about juggling
Proof I know how to run a marathon
My bucket list
Seth Godin’s new book, The Practice
Link to the original blog post
Main creator Michael Mankus
The Runner’s World Podcast episode where Micha and I first talked about the race idea
Team member Judith
Team member Maiken
Team member Till
The Zugspitz Ultra Trail
Website of this race: SIGN UP FOR 2024 at bremensanktpauli.de!
Melkhus café, halfway point aid station
The public GPS track
DUV, German Ultrarunning Association
Falke, sponsor of the shirts
Western States 100, which hands out belt buckles too
HOKA shoe company, which provided shoes for the winners
Marcel, our contact at HOKA and 2x German Champion at 24h running
Legends Tracking, Belgian GPS tracking service provider
What’s a Franzbrötchen?
Story of our previous race, Grüner Ring 200
Football club SV Werder Bremen
Spartathlon, where Katrin Grieger reached 11th place
Katrin’s ultra running resumé
Berliner Mauerweglauf 100 mile race
Tor des Géants, a 330 km race around northern Italy
Matthias Kröling’s German blog post about BremenSanktPauli 100
SIGN UP FOR 2024! We’re allowing two person relay teams this time!
Link to the original blog post
AI researcher Joscha Bach
The Turing Test
Neuralink – mapping the human brain
Von Neumann Probe
My 2023 blog post about optimism
An optimistic NYT report on climate change
An optimistic Guardian article against climate doomers
Ali Abdaal – productivity expert
The Omega Speedmaster watch
The first watch worn on the moon
My 2023 Books & Marathons goals overview
Casey Neistat finally breaking 3:00h on the marathon
Western States 100 lottery
youllnevergetintowesternstates on @ultrarunningmemes
Zugspitz Ultra Trail 100k race
Fitbod for strength training
Wim Hof Breathing on YouTube
Financial advisor Mr. Money Mustache
Sleep scientist Matt Walker
“Digital Minimalism” author Cal Newport
The New York Times Wordle game
Run tracking web tool Strava
The #oneyearnobeer movement
The Great Munich Breweries Ultra
The tool we developed last year, carboncheckmate.com
My old and new love web tool, Speechbox
My Boston Marathon post
My Lavaredo Ultra Trail 120K post
My New York City Marathon post
HOKA Mach 5
HOKA Speedgoat 5
TOPO Athletic Ultraventure 3
PUMA Deviate Nitro 2
The newer version of the NIKE ZoomX Vaporfly Next%
ASICS Novablast 4
HOKA Rocket X2
My bookshelf overview
“Range” by David Epstein
“The Comfort Crisis” by Michael Easter
“What’s Our Problem” by Tim Urban
My blog on a list called Germany’s Best Running Blogs
My 28 EU capital city marathons report landing page
The company “Substack” catering to Nazis now
The new /about section on teesche.com
“I Quit Smoking” counter
My dynamic run stats
My current Marathons & Books counter for the year
My review about the COROS Pace 3 GPS watch
My CORE Body Temperature Monitor review
Blog post about my 2nd place finish at Blankeneser Heldenlauf
My public bucket list
My blog post about donating blood
Link to the original post
Coffee, the Greatest Addiction Ever (YouTube video by CGP Grey)
ROCKET Cellini Premium Plus espresso maker
The AeroPress coffee maker
My electric coffee bean grinder with integrated scales
A pricey but good-looking and well-made electric kettle by Fellow
My post about finding the best smoothie recipe
Blender of choice: The Vitamix TNC5200
Hal Elrod’s book “The Miracle Morning”
Sports tracking website Strava
Rocka Nutrition protein powders
Western States 100 (My longtime running goal)
Freeletics strength training app
Wim Hof, “The Ice Man”
The Othership app for diverse breathing exercises
Wim Hof’s 11 minute free breathing exercise video
The Sleep Cycle app for sleep tracking and as an alarm clock
Link to the blog post
CORE Body Temp website
One of THE heat races: Western States 100
More info about the data behind the CORE Body Temperature Monitor
Link to the bookshelf page
Link to buy the book
The Tim Ferriss Show
Rich Roll Podcast
Ali Abdaal’s Deep Dive Podcast
Link to the blog post
Red Cross US
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
World Blood Donor Day on June 14th, 2024
Google Search for “blood donation center near me”
Link to the post
Manhattan Perimeter Ultra 2022
CGP Grey: The Race to Win Staten Island
My Boston Marathon 2023 Report
My Lavaredo Ultra Trail 120K Report
2nd Place at Blankeneser Heldenlauf Report
Comparing the Cost of Living of NYC to Your Hometown
My COROS PACE 3 GPS Watch Review
The New COROS HR Monitor
The New COROS POD 2 foot sensor
My NYC Marathon 2023 Strava Activity
The original bookshelf page
Buy the book here
Link to the original blog post
My books & marathons of 2023 progress page
The Aabenraa and Flensburg double marathon weekend
Jenischpark Marathon #1
Jenischpark Marathon #2
My Lavaredo 120K race report
Nearly cracking 3:00 hours in a marathon
Reaching 2nd place at a hilly half marathon recently
Strava tracking of Erfurt Marathon
Strava tracking of Kassel Marathon
Link to the bookshelf page
Link to buy the book
Link to the original post
The race website of Heldenlauf
My Lavaredo Ultra Trail 120K race report
Race report of my Te Houtaewa Ultra win
Race report of my Rauchwart Marathon win
The official result list of the 2023 Heldenlauf DERBE
My shoe of choice, the Asics Novablast 3
HOKA Tecton X 2
Asics Novablast 3 TR
Strava activity of an interval session before this race
Strava activity of this Heldenlauf race
One of the most well known books about running training. The author is a highly educated and successful running coach with a number-focused approach and lots of interesting and proven ideas to further the fitness levels of a huge variety of athletes.
The ”Essentialism” follow-up called “Effortless” advocates working smarter, prioritizing, and recovering adequately. Reading, learning, teaching all have high returns. Removing decisions and taking the direct route towards our goals helps.
Kevin Kelly, the WIRED magazine co-founder and longtime executive editor, put his two most popular blog posts into a small book full of byte-sized advice, ranging from short and sweet to funny to helpful and thought-provoking.
This 120 kilometer foot race through the Dolomite mountains in Italy took everything I had in me. Find out why.
A difficult one. Although it was hugely successful, I can’t find many positives about this self-indulgent autobiographical narration which shows no regard for the humans around the author. It made me want to learn more about classic philosophy, though.
What is optimism and why is it more crucial then ever today? This episode explores the big picture.
After lots of build-up in the first and second book, this one promises a showdown. But the Zombie Nazis appear to be hallucinations in the end. And the sea monster Leviathan doesn’t do much except fall in love with the protagonist’s AI. Not worth it.
As the second book of the trilogy, it doesn’t do much to further the storyline if you could even call it that. It reads like an LSD trip the authors had and that’s maybe even true. There are some slight hints at a sort of showdown coming up in next book.
Link to the bookshelf page
Link to buy the book
Link to the blog post containing all pictures and videos
Boston Marathon’s extensive Wikipedia page
The story of my Boston Qualifier
The Boston Athletic Association
Japanese runner Yuki Kawauchi on Wikipedia
A video about the 2018 Boston Marathon highlights, mostly featuring Kawauchi
Hoka Carbon X3 hard racing shoes
My Boston Marathon 2023 on Strava
The World Marathon Majors
Berlin Marathon race report
London Marathon race report
New York City Marathon official website
Tokyo Marathon official website
Chicago Marathon official website
Read the bookshelf report here
Buy the book here
Learn more about the method and product by Daniel Priestley’s team
Link to the original post
My bookshelf review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens
The East India Company on Wikipedia
Mark Zuckerberg’s Foundation website
Amazon link to the book The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
My company’s website, teege.me
My bookshelf review of Nicolas Cole’s The Art and Business of Online Writing
Author Ryan Holiday’s website
Zwift, the app my wife and I use for stationary cycling
Chrome Extension to limit YouTube access
My favorite album of 2022, Polyphia’s Remember That You Will Die
My blog post introducing the 20s Goals of the Decade
Hannover Marathon website
My race report on Mozart 100 2021
My race report on Endurance Trail des Templiers 2022
Lavaredo 120k Ultramarathon website
David Goggins’ website
The Streak Runners International, Inc.’s website, runeveryday.com
Me in the list of German members
Wim Hof Breathing YouTube guide
Helping us save money, Mr. Money Mustache
The sleep professor, Matt Walker
Digital minimalism advocate, Cal Newport
The New York Times’ Wordle daily puzzle
Explanation video about seasonal or annual theme setting
My Hamburg Marathon race report and training documentation
My Manhattan perimeter ultramarathon report
My report about my memorial run for my deceased father-in-law Peter Huggett
My bookshelf review of Hans Rosling’s Factfulness
My bookshelf review of Ed Winters’ The is Vegan Propaganda
Story of our 2019 Hamburg Everest race
The business book to rule all business books: published in 1989, it popularized terms and phrases such as synergy, thinking win-win, being proactive, or paradigm shifts. The twist is that the focus is divided between business and family life.
Ross Edgley is looking like one of the fittest people on the planet and that’s not a mask. From world records to traveling the world to researching what the world has to offer, this guy explains physical fitness well.
When something you automatically do makes you wonder why exactly that is the case, it can be a strong signal to do some more thinking about it. Maybe you’re on the right track, maybe not. Only one way to find out: go ahead and try.
John Romero and John Carmack created the video games Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake together. It made them millions and left a huge cultural footprint. The two and their small team were hugely driven and passionate.
This episode details my journey through summer of 2022, including updates on all the goals I set for myself, the rituals and intents I had built, the side projects I started, the new habit tracking, and also a lookout for the upcoming quarter.
This book tells you everything you need to know about humankind’s evolutionary success. It’s not pretty and will mess with your worldview, but in a good way. It’s time to get realistic and understand how we arrived at this point in order to improve.
One of the most difficult challenges for an amateur runner is to break three hours in a marathon race. I came close once and decided to try again. This is the story of my second attempt, this time at Cologne Marathon.
Written in 1936, this is the comprehensive guide to learning to behave in a way that makes other people respond more positively towards you. Yes, some people will make us angry, but showing that anger makes it worse, always. Bad title, great message.
This book is filled to the rim with smart ideas. There is a lot of deep inspiration for your own way of living and prioritizing things in these short chapters.
What is the common purpose of every company every founded? Provide people with some kind of value. Give them what they want or need. If that should change, the company must, too. You company is a playground, it can be made into anything you want it to be.
I went to New York City and one of the things I did while there was to run the whole perimeter of Manhattan. 55 kilometers or 34 miles in the sun showed me a lot of different things most tourists probably won’t get to see of the city.
Nobel Prize winning physicist Feynman has lived are highly interesting and entertaining life. He saw opportunities for exploration and improvement and also just mischief everywhere and used them.
At age 75, just recently, my beloved father-in-law died. I ran a 75 kilometer ultra marathon to remember him and say goodbye.
A lot has happened, sometimes to the point of overwhelm. But I’m working on it and here’s what I have learned regarding keeping all these habits, challenges, rituals, intents, goals, and of course, the Theme of the Season.
How to write articles which people want to click and then read until the end? There’s a science to it and Nicolas Cole has it figured out. The question is, should you always follow that advice?
How would you go about that and what can you learn from tracking your life? I dive into what’s currently possible and what might be interesting to do in the future.
Who doesn’t secretly want to be healthy, strong, disciplined, and therefore happy? James Clear explains the human behavioral science behind it very clearly!
Are you curious about the role nutrition plays in the whole of society? The consequences of our actions on our health, ethics, the climate crisis? There’s a simple solution to it, and Ed Winters explains it all.
Some people think that running is just the same every time. That’s not true, there’s lot of variation possibilities to it, for example, you can do speed training and go for a Sub-3 hour marathon. What that’s like, I’ll tell you in this episode.
It’s a humongous task to run for 200 kilometers straight. But organizing an event of this sort also requires quite some effort. Here you can find out how something like this can go down and what’s it like to witness it first hand.
A practical philosophy which has stood the test of time for well over 2000 years now, is Stoicism. In this book, all it’s helpful pieces of wisdom are neatly sorted by topic and explained in an easy way.
A collection of the words of advice and wisdom which successful investor Naval Ravikant has put out into the world. There are a few gems in here!
We have maneuvered ourselves into a socioeconomic cul-de-sac and are facing lots of existential problems. Human behavior needs to change for us to make it through the next few hundred years, and Rou Reynolds explains it well.
The first quarter of 2022 is history. I had made a bunch of plans for it, so it’s time for a review, and an outlook about what’s coming in this next quarter.
The world is not as bad as we think and it’s improving in many regards. Rosling helps us understand our own biases in order to make our worldview more facts-based and therefore improve our decision making.
A psychiatrist who has spend three years in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau as a Jewish prisoner writes about the mental state and the meaning of life derived from the suffering
The type of work used to create this modern world is called design. Everything which is broken is because of bad and unethical design decisions. We’re all responsible and this book helps us realize that we need to step up and be the change.
Learning how to become a better manager is an exercise in trial and error for most people. But there are shortcuts, for example the brilliant book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhou. I tried to make it more accessible and documented the process.
It doesn’t have to be super tough to reach wealth and happiness in life. Morgan Housel gives us a lot of guidance on how to behave in order to feel and be content with our financial situation.
One of the best triathletes in the world has written an autobiography. After watching his career from the outside, it’s quite interesting to learn how it felt from the inside, meaning from his own perspective.
Al Howie was a truly exceptional human being in many regards. His stand-out ability was long distance running and he defied what most people would think is humanly possible. But his life was tragic.
A book which offers a lot of knowledge about how we make our day-to-day decisions. It’s helpful to understand and always remember its seven core principles: Reciprocity, Liking, Social Proof, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment/Consistency, and Unity.
That’s right, I wrote a book! It’s about the 28.5 official marathon races I did in all capital cities of the European Union. And you can read it for free, or buy it.
One of the most successful German podcast hosts, Matze Hielscher, has compiled the knowledge and wisdom his many guests have shared with him over the years. Why not profit from that?
Your money or your life? It doesn’t have to be either or, if you play it wisely and listen to what Vicki Robin can teach you. This is a book summary containing her most impactful truth-bombs.
What to do with the time given to us? For the last few years, I have been making and then even following concrete plans. These are my plans for 2022, especially the first quarter of it.
What an unusual year. For me it contained lots of highs and lows, and in this episode I'm going through all of them with a special emphasis of all the marathons I ran.
I’ve started a podcast for everyone who wants to read my blog posts but can’t find the time for it. It’s about cultivating a healthy mind in a healthy body. Enjoy!