Published on 7th of October, Listen to the Podcast Copy address to share. As you can see on my progress page , my reading is up there, but my marathon running, not so much. So, when the opportunity presented itself to run two official marathon races on just one weekend, I jumped and took it! We went there and both finished both races.
It went really well, because after the first marathon I did the right thing and refueled with lots of Danish ice-cream. The second double marathon weekend I did was during the pandemic and therefore it was a self-timed one in Jenischpark near our house. I ran the outer-most lap, which is about 2. Spot the pattern? Both cities are roughly located in central Germany, in the states of Thuringia and Hesse, respectively.
Eastern and Western Germany. Getting there by train from Hamburg, while possible, would involve lots of stop-overs, increasing the risk of missing a connection because of fragile Deutsche Bahn. And, weirdly, the three needed train segments would have cost me nearly Euros, not even traveling in First Class.
Since Sophie needed our family car during the weekend for kid logistics, that left only one more option I could think of: getting a rental. During the last few opportunities, I have rented a Tesla whenever I got the chance. But this time, something incredible happened: Thanks to especially high gas prices, even using my own car would have been more expensive than renting a Tesla!
The Diesel price is at 1. Renting the Tesla, on the other hand, cost Euros for the weekend. Is the tipping point reached? Renting an electric car is now cheaper than driving your own gas powered one. When you add the real cost of owning your combustion engine car, like price depreciation over the years, insurance, taxes, and maintenance cost over the years due to wear and tear, the situation becomes even clearer.
