Botched winter season, post appendicitis and moving forward
This winter has somehow been troublesome for me. First off the Danish-Swedish border was closed just before Christmas and not opened again until now. This meant that I was unable to participate in what would have been my fifth Vasaloppet in a row. However I quickly made for another target and did complete 5000 km […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2021 June – July.
Virtual World Classic Tour Virtual Blink Classics 60 + 10 km Due to the Corona virus the usual roller ski events during the summer was cancelled. Instead we got a chance to participate as virtual competitions meaning that as a participant you could choose a short, medium or long distance race, finish that distance on […]
The 20×20 Roller Ski Challenge
Today I successfully finished the 20×20 Roller Ski Challenge that I set myself onto. 20 km each day for 20 days on classic roller skis. I finished loud and proud by setting a new personal best for the 20 km flat course at average speed 17,4 km/h. All in all I feel in great […]
The 20 x 20 roller ski challenge
Ok, here I am. Winter spring season shortened significantly by the corona outbreak. In order to keep my diabetes at bay while having to stay home from job and social life I have to think of new ways to motivate myself for training. I have been checking off a lot of Strava segments improving steadily […]
Interview in Vasalöparen
Back in December I went to Stockholm for an interview about cross country ski training with diabetes. The interview is now available in print in the magazine Vasalöparen and online through this link: https://www.vasaloppet.se/om-oss/vasaloparen/. The interview is in Swedish on p. 24. I have done a translation to English here: He weighed 125 kilos and […]
Craft Ski Marathon 2020
Update: I promised to update this post once the seeding results came in from the Vasaloppet Organisation. I had three major goals for this season. They all came through already: I double poled Craft Ski Marathon I skied a classic marathon in less than 2:48:00 (2:38:32) I qualified to start gate 6 at Vasaloppet 2020 […]
Polar Vantage V vs. Polar V800 initial GPS test.
I just had the first test run on cross country skis with the V800 and Vantage V together up here in Orsa Grönklitt. The Polar V800 is arguably one of the most precise GPS watches out there. So I was a bit hesitant to buy a Vantage V since I have read so much about […]
Travel to Frösön for Sockertoppen Camp and snow premier at Orsa Grönklitt
The 23rd of October I set course for Östersund and Frösön to participate in the diabetes camp with Robin Bryntesson and Frida Linnér from Oct. 25th to 27th. First I dropped by Orsa Grönklitt to visit my friends there and to take a look at the new multitrack course for roller skiing and cross […]
RollerSafe in traffic – Give me a brake!
Wow, so happy about my RollerSafe. The Smart Brakes saved my life three times the other day. First when a car driver deliberately tried to ram me down in a T-section where he was waiting for a long queue of cars at Klampenborgvej. I was turning right down the bicycle path but he didn’t want […]
Living with Type II diabetes, Training with Type II diabetes
How do you treat and manage your diabetes? I train roller skiing and cross country skiing. I try to eat less carbohydrates but I am not fanatical about food. However, I keep a quite tight and hard training program. I try to do 2-300 km each month. So I train something like 4-5-6 days a […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020, Flying on slow wheels and something about slow vs. fast wheeling.
Yesterday I wrote about breaking a new personal best roller skiing on slow wheels. Seems like I am on a roll ’cause today I broke it again! I also wrote about the heart rate zones. That back in May I was 44% in the red zone. Yesterday that was 79%. Today despite starting from strained […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020. New Personal Best on RollerSafe
Unlike last year with wedding preparations and everything going on then, I didn’t go down on training this June. This means that now after changing to a new set of slow grey wheels (courtesy of RollerSafe, thanks Henrik Karlstad and Atle Stubberud), I set a new personal best doing 18k at 17.12 km/h. I feel […]
Polar Fitness Test.
15 days ago I did one of the hardest fitness tests I have done for a very long time. It was the Polar Fitness test that they posted along with their *Push Your Potential* program. The test consists of 6 different workouts: Fitness/test-your-level-of-fitness with video instructions. My results 15 days ago vs. yesterday: But seriously […]
Back home after a beautiful 3-day visit to Norway
It took a trip to Norway to get back on the spinning bike for me. We took to a leisure weekend at some Spa resorts in Uddevala (Sweden), Tønsberg and at Son Spa. Then I paid a visit at RollerSafe to get my roller skis checked. Luckily they had a new set of the grey […]
Weeping shades of cozened indigo
Once about every 2000 kilometers you get a reminder why to use knee protection when roller skiing. Tuesday’s training with KS-Ski was such a day. Tree roots shooting up through the pavement stopped me flat at about 18 km/h. Hip, knees and elbow. 🥶🔥🤬 A 35 km run where the last 15? was painful… Someone […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020
One year ago I broke my own personal record on RollerSafe going 10 km at 17 km/h in average speed. Today I broke that record again going 17,7 km at 17 km/h but this time on slow wheels that are 3-4 km/h slower than the 2″ wheels I used last year. This is a really […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020, spring rolling
Today’s training. Notable that I broke my previous personal best on slow wheels at 17 km by 3 minutes! But also that my heart rate didn’t even go to zone 5. . It is even equal to my personal best on fast wheels at this distance. Also worth noting that at 14 out of 18 […]
RollerSafe… What a joyful spring experience!
330 km so far in April. Including the workout the 31st of March I had ten days doing 180 km on snow in the beginning of April at Orsa Grönklitt. A great way to end the winter season. Then two days break at home and an equally great feeling entering the spring/summer season by continuously doing better at the 17 km track on roller skis. Topping it up today when I cut 2 minutes off of my personal best on the 10 km track on slow wheels.
Home again and back to roller skiing
Yesterday I was tired, non motivated and in a bad mood. Let’s call it transition syndrome from the snowscape of Dalarna. At least it was sunshine. But sometimes all you have to do is get the hell out of the door. So I went on to my training grounds getting out my trusty RollerSafe. When […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020, testing the new Madshus Redline 2.0 (DP)
I am so fortunate as to know these fantastic guys up at Orsa Grönklitt. While I have been home since Vasaloppet training away at Thorax and RollerSafe they got another period of dense snow fall up here with 50 cm a couple of weeks ago. This means that the conditions now are nothing short of […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020, first roller ski session in 2019.
First time out on the RollerSafe this year. In the beginning of December I changed to slower wheels which are still on. Today I did 9 km with an average speed that was 2 km/h faster than before Christmas when I was doing 12.6 km/h. A testimony to how good I have been feeling […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020, raw interval session with the Thorax Trainer.
Yesterday after taking a 3 day break from training I went back to the Thorax Trainer determined this time to make some really nasty intervals. Looks like this: Again the speed curve on the polar diagram is useless since it is based on the track running setting for the polar V800. There is no setting […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2020, testing ThoraxTrainer
Oh the ambivalence of returning home to rain, rain & rain again… The weather in Copenhagen, Denmark isn’t exactly something to boast about. It is rainy, stormy and generally depressive. Coming home from 70 cm snow in Dalarna, Sweden after a month away at Vasaloppet and Orsa Grönklitt to 24h rain isn’t exactly uplifting. So […]
Vasaloppsveckan 2019, the toughest Vasaloppet ever, according to some.
A month up here in Dalarna has come to its conclusion. A month of great improvements in cross country skiing, playing in the snow, meeting new friends and hard training. Before moving on to Vasaloppet 2019 I want to head start with Saturday the 2nd. March when my daughters raced the childrens Vasaloppet. For us […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, two days to Kortvasan..!
Wonderful weather in Orsa Grönklitt today. -1°C, sunshine (+13°C in the sun), light wind: Beautiful! After the mild weather the last couple of days the tracks were hard and perfect today. I aimed at 20 km keeping the heart rate in control around 80% (ended up at 83%) and double poling all the way. […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day something ;)
Well, it has been a while but now I am finally back! A summer full of training ups and downs and ventures into biathlon. I was in brilliant shape in May-June but after that I slowly got myself caught up in Erysipelas infections, colds and more of the same. My shape naturally suffered but I […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 118-139 Testing Scatt at Ballerup Biathlon
Been a month of extreme heat and sun in Denmark with temperatures around 30-33°C. I have been taking it easy with only 110 km so far in the legs in July. Still an absolute joy to train on the RollerSafe. I dropped a bit in average speed, down to about 16 km/h – but it […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 105-117, Finally it is here!
At long last I received my wedding present today from Anschütz. A laser power biathlon riffle. In time to test it also. Works perfectly! I was shooting out in the garden behind where we live. At least 12 meters works fine if not more. It is a little gem. Pricey but excellent. On top of […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 74-104
I think this is the longest time that has passed between updates since I started writing this training blog. So much has been going on. First of all I got married last Saturday. We made much of the food on our own, ordered 4 pasta courses from Andrea Casciotta of Spaghetteria, served 80 guests and […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 70-71
You know these days when everything feels heavy on you straight from the morning. I had some bad dreams and slept very uneasy… In the morning I couldn’t sleep any more so went up early with an aching body. Still, I wanted to hit the training course to get it out of my system before […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 67-69
The times of meeting my personal goals are not over. This morning I did a Fitness Test on my Polar V800 and for the first time I made it into the elite level with a V02Max of 52! I am so very pleased! I have been thinking about how to train […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 62-63
Yesterday I did not feel on top of my game. In the morning I went for a 8,75 km roller ski workout without getting higher than 85% of max. heart rate. My average speed was merely 15.8 km/h. It felt like I had hit a brick wall during the day. Felt like all the past […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 58-61
I went to my third biathlon training, today with Jens Hulgaard. Focus on shooting without support. I managed to do okay in prone position, setting usually three of five shots in relatively close proximity but standing was very difficult. My first five shots standing since 25 years back and I felt like a bowery bum. […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 56-57 and something about how to achieve permanent weight loss
After a days break, fuelled by taking the kids to the park and playing D&D 5th. ed. with good friends afterwards, I took to steal another run on the RollerSafe this morning. A couple of weeks ago I aimed for 16 km/h in average speed and figured once I got there I would be at […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 42-50, Training for Imroved Quality of Life!
In summary. Over the course of 8 days I have moved from average heart rate 173 bpm. to 163 bpm. while improving average speed from 15.9 km/h to 16.15 km/h. The pulse zone 4-5 has moved from 51%(z5)-42%(z4) to 5%(z5)-85%(z4) on the same route. The training load moved from 16 hours to 9 hours. Some progression!
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 29-33
Now that I am finally about to lose that sinusitis I feel good and in good shape. Actually contemplating if there could be one more trip to the snowscape for me this spring but for now I am well into roller skiing. The RollerSafe are great as usual although it takes a few kilometres to […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 22-28, Goodbye snow, hello RollerSafe!
Tuesday was the last day on snow for this season up in Orsa Grönklitt. I felt a little better and did 17 km in a relatively relaxed effort at avg. heart rate 158 bpm but 13.6 km/h indicates that the shape is there and that the weakness due to illness and stomach flu was departing. […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 18-19… Testing the Madshus Redline IGS, part two (Update on glide performance, see link below).
**Update**: I have done a more thorough glide test comparison of the Madshus Redline Cold vs. the Redline IGS (skin). You can read more here: Skin-vs-cold-madshus-cross-country-skis. While it was -10 to -20°C all of February I did not take out the Redline IGS much so I kind of stood my ground on the Redline cold […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 17
As usual I was up early in the morning (*cough) but someone was sleeping longer than me! Bless them! Contrary to the winter of 2017-2018 when I mainly did skate skiing this season I have only done one skate track back in November in Norway. Since then it was all classic due to the […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 16-23
“When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone” My life revolved around these lyrics for many many years while wandering in […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 9-15
First of all I have to thank a lot of people who believed in me. In that it was possible to work my way out of diabetes without using medicine. My long time blood sugar HbA1C is now 46 Mmol/mol (below 48 equals no diabetes)! I am so happy and grateful to all my friends […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2019, day 1-8
Now begins a new adventure. I am already returning to Orsa Grönklitt for some more snow skiing at Easter. Albeit only for a week, I hope to do some thorough testing of my new Madshus Redline IGS in more optimal temperatures and snow conditions than what was present in the weeks before Vasaloppet when it […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, March 4
A season of my first races in the long distance cross country classics has come to its conclusion. Yesterday I finished with Vasaloppet 2018 (results for Sockertoppen IF) as number 7508 in the time 8h37m29s. I felt I could have done better as my finish time of both Kortvasan 2:28:09 and Halvvasan 3:42:49 suggested that I […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 343-346
The fourth long distance race of 2018 for me started today at 9:00 A.M. in Oxberg as I was in place for start in the first group for Halvvasan 45 km. The weather conditions were rough -11°C. Wind from North – East meaning head to sidewind from about km 8 and the chill factor to […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 342
What a great day. From start at Oxberg – Mora, Kortvasan 30 km in 2:27:37. The best 30 km classical ski run I have done. I had it in me to do better but I held back a bit since I am going to participate in Halvvasan on Tuesday. Marcus Laggar of Lager 157 Ski […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 330-334
Been training short distances in order to recover from the Marathon last weekend but today I went out for a half marathon on a similar path to the race track. I did pretty well. Just about as my first lap in Grönklitt Marathon, 12 km/h. Interestingly it seems I am getting better though as I […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 329
Grönklitt Ski Marathon is well over for me but with a bit of mixed feelings. I haven’t been training for the past four weeks since my dad came home from hospital with a cancer diagnose and passed away only 4 days after. He should have been here with us today… Sometimes life sucks. Suffice to […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 313-328
Finally they are here! The Madshus Redline IGS that I ordered have finally arrived in a span that fits me perfectly! It will be a hard choice tomorrow at Grönklitt Ski Marathon between those and the Redline Cold. Probably going with the Cold. Thank you to Conny from Skistart in Älvdalen for being such a great […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 301-312
Heartbroken… After a short outbreak of cancer my dad, Erik Immanuel, died Saturday, January the 20th, 2018. It came as a chock to me. He had a case of pneumonia in December but as he weakened over Christmas it became clear that something else was at play. Unfortunately we did not get the cancer diagnose […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 285-300, The first big test! AXA Skimarathon
In the ever ongoing battle against type II diabetes I was a bit disappointed in my finish time at the Orsa Christmas Marathon the 27th of December plus I DNF’ed at the roller ski race of Kongevejsløbet in Denmark in the fall falling out of the time restriction by about two minutes. It made me […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 284. Testing the Madshus Redline IGS.
Ran the Orsa Grönklitt Julemarathon today. After an all night with 30 cm new snow it was amazing that they even got a working set of tracks for this competition. Marcus Laggar från Längdcentrum at Orsa Grönklitt let me test the Madshus Redline IGS for this race but when we were to start at 10 […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 283
Today it has been snowing all day! I did go 10 km though. When doing so it is quite pleasing to find this one out in the snowscape. One little note about Apple AirPods. I have been wearing them while cross country skiing and even when I face plummeted the other day on a […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 280-282
Well well, been training good up here in winter wonderland (better known as Orsa Grönklitt) In two days I have a training marathon to participate in. Looking forward to it. Courtesy of ‘Längdshopen’, situated right at the snow tracks in Orsa Grönklitt, I was allowed to test a pair of Madshus Redline IGS 95+ with […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 262-279
I know… I have been absent for a while but I have been busy. I was in Sweden in the middle of December running a total of 120 km on classic skis in five days. It started out good with a test run of 20 km at avg. speed 12.6 km/h and a new personal […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 250-261
Been taking it easy since I came home from Norway focusing mainly on technique and safety. Weather is getting colder and we had a few nights with frost making the roads slippery with patches of ice as well as wet and muddy. In other words quite dangerous especially in the dark. For some training sessions […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 235-249
Here is a tale of my first days in the snow this season. I took my RollerSafe to service in Norway and from there went on to Lillehammer to visit my niece and to get my first snow-experience this season. Expectations were high as I have been doing a lot of workout on the roller […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 234 Comparison stats Polar V800 vs Polar M430 vs Runkeeper/iPhone7
A little devil whispered in my ears that for todays long roller skiing workout I should compare the two Polar watches being the V800 and the M430 as well as with Runkeeper using my iPhone 7. The Polar watches were very close. The V800 does seem a bit more accurate on altitude though which may […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 232-233
So Sunday was one long interval of sorts going 15 km at a very high pulse. 10 of 15 one kilometer rounds were in zone 5 (between 176-194/bpm, with 3 consecutive kilometers averaging 181, 180 and 182 bpm. That is very high. https://flow.polar.com/training/analysis/1909899460 Yesterday I broke that down to acceleration intervals so that I would […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 226-231
Wow… Been standing still at a plateau for a while now roller skiing at about 14-15 km/h. Average pulse around 160-170. Felt like I was missing some hard interval trainings and enjoying comfort zones a bit too much… So last night I put on my newly acquired X-bionic full set and went out in total […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 215-225
Last time I promised I would write something about the estimated VO2Max test of the Polar M430. This is what my measurements look like so far: Ideally you should measure the VO2Max every 6 weeks to get a good insight into how you are progressing but I just wanted to see if I could get […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 191-214
Ok, it has been a while… I have been busy at work after returning from sick leave. So skipping fast forward to the positive side of things I acquired a GPS training watch, the M430 no less, from the Finnish company Polar. This is looking like being the best investment I have ever done apart […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 184-190
Bloody my shingles… Well, the state of weakness I found myself in during Kongevejsløbet wasn’t just about a shoulder injury. It soon showed itself as me having shingles. That is a very bad and painful condition stemming from the virus you get when contracting small pox as a child. The virus lingers in your body […]
En Route to Vasaloppet day 176-183
Buehh, got an injury to my right shoulder probably at the lower end of m. teres minor or m. teres major or both. I think it started when I was doing Kongevejsløbet which would explain why I felt so out of power towards the end. A sneaking injury that didn’t really come to play until […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 153-158
Did some ok runs here in the past weekdays first at home and then in Sweden when we stopped one night at the cottage. On the way up yesterday we made a halt in the picturesque village of Fjällbacka at the Swedish west coast (see pictures). Now we are finally in Norway. We visited RollerSafe […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 145-152
After the sharp run in Sweden I took a three day break to celebrate my birthday and to get some mushroom, and berry picking done before we went home. Now we have been back for 5 days and it has been five days of hardship but also with positive feedback. My weight is still going […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 141-144
After a two days break I was out again this morning. I felt good. I broke another distance and average speed personal best. Coming in at 13 km at average speed of 15 km/h and another personal best for 16 km at an average speed of 14.75 km/h and a third at 17.7 km at […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 140
Today is a break day despite better weather. We are celebrating my little nieces 6 years birthday. There need also be time for other stuff than training so a trip out to pick mushrooms and wild raspberries seemed suitable and was a good workout too. The raspberry pickings were slightly interrupted when I went out […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 135-139
It has been heavy raining here in Halland in the past 5 days. That did not deter me from going out. Add a little grease to the outside of the wheels of the RollerSafe and they can practically go amphibious. Well needed as it felt more like running through a shallow lake at times with […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 129-134
Ok, so I was seriously aiming at 400 km for July but rainy weather and a trip to Sweden kind of prevented me from reaching the goal. However, including todays RollerSafe workout I did manage to make it to 387 km. Here are a few other comparisons from June to July. 22 out of 31 […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 127-128
Good news. I rounded 315 km in July. My goal was to go 300 but there is still 6 days left. We’ll see how close I get to the 400 km mark! Well well, in the morning I went out to take a lesson in classic skiing from Bo who works at Nordic Sport / […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 124-126
Day 124 was set out to train on a more flat and easy route. I did 17.5 km at the fastest pace yet for the long distance courses I have been doing lately at average speed of 14.54 km/h. Smooth. Yesterday (day 125) we were going to visit my parents and the plan was to […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 123
What a perfect day to roller ski. Sunny, 22° celcius and absolutely no wind. When I got home from meeting my friend Johanna and her little sweet 6 months old baby Malcolm I went to swap the sunglasses I bought yesterday since they had some microscratches in the glass. No problem at Rulleskisport. They just […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 122
I went to my local equipment pusher at Rulleskisport today to get some new classic boots and sunglasses. I rolled there on the RollerSafe and after I went out for a 10 km run. Nice and easy 15 km today. I got boots and glasses at a nice rebate. Nice to have a good local […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 119-121
3 days ago was hellish pain and agony. After a 2 day break I did a good workout the day before and then boom I felt really tired and everything was aching. My back, my shoulders and legs. I did a respectable 13 km/h 18 km roller skiing pass anyways but when I was done […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 115-118
Been doing a couple of nice RollerSafe runs of 18-20 km. I feel more fit and ready to take on the first big challenge: Kongevejsløbet September 10, 2017! This is a seeding roller skiing competition for Vasaloppet 2018 as well as counting as the long distance DM (Danish championships for long distance roller skiing). 45.2 km […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 114
Today was a good day for training. Even though I had been working and came home quite late I felt in good spirit and shape. I decided to go for the longer distance route of 18 km and give it a shot at breaking 14 km/h an average for this distance. I got good feedback […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 107-113
Since I got home from Transylvania I have been changing my training to double length and more up and down kind of terrain, like going 18 km instead of 9 and going up longer climbs, not as challenging as Transylvania though but still some shorter 5-6% climbs and a longer 3% climb of 2-3 km. […]
Between bears and wolves. A Roller Skiing tale from Harghita, Transylvania (En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 90-106)
This is a training diary from Judetul Harghita, Romania. Since we were going to a wedding in Gyöngyis home county of Harghita, Romania, I saw the opportunity to get a bit of mountain climbing in on the RollerSafe and to more thoroughly test the braking ability in rougher terrain with steep decents. After some 2000 […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 89
Still sore throat and feeling the remnants of the cold I have suffered the past ten days now. I felt remarkably well on the RollerSafe today considered the symptoms. I did a couple of high pulse long intervals. One at the length of 2.5 km ranging from 175 to 180 bpm (beats per minute) and […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 88
Sore throat and feeling sick and a very sore back. Still, I did my training today and did well… Average pulse was 164 but I kept a good tempo 14.5 km/h in average speed without going higher than 177, in max pulse. Looking at the pulse chart I am definitely able to keep a higher […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 83-87
Been training 11 of 13 days in June so far. Held a day off yesterday due to a cold that has been hitting me. I am not feeling super but I did go out today for an easy relaxing ride. The past few days I have been doing good runtimes of 14-15 km/h in average […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 81-82
Yesterday I took a day off from training due to heavy rain and a sneak up cold starting off. Turned out to be a good idea as I was definitely feeling better today. Instead of training yesterday I went to buy a new pair of training shorts as the old bike shorts I had was […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 76-80
I can tell you now that the best cure for hangover is to go RollerSkiing the day after. I did 10 km in the evening after the most infernal rainy day and being capsized by massive hangover after a wedding the night before. Towards the end of the day it cleared up and even though […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 73-75
Another milestone! I checked in at 500 km on my RollerSafe yesterday making this distance in just 82 days whereof 55 were active workout days. That is 9 km pr. workout on average. As for the past couple of days I took a break in the rain Tuesday but went out yesterday and today. The […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 72
My local motivation pusher at work, commonly adhering to the name Dr. JR., gave me a little pep-talk today on the subject of keeping up the good work. Therefore I went out in the wee evening after getting home from work. Indeed things are moving. Today I did a run with 7 out of 9 […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 71
Well, a new day starts with hangover. For once I succeeded in getting my better half to drive the car home after a family party so for the first time in ages I was drinking something containing alcohol with the catastrophic aftermath today => headache. Of course I was playing with my cousins children and […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 70
Wow, so lovely weather. Hot and nice! It was a bit hard working out though as the air was very dry and it was quite windy. On the other hand I managed again to keep a nice average speed of past 14 km/h even though I felt dizzy towards the 6 km mark. Need to […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 69
Got a good nice breakfast with my girls then went out rolling. The blood sugar was 6.4! Good! In the deer park there were lots of beautiful people out to enjoy the nice warm weather which means I got to make a good commercial for RollerSafe and the blinkies. I went for a slightly longer […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 66-68
I was very excited to go to the dietician this tuesday. I even went out for a short roll early in the morning just as I did in Hungary. Here it was a nice morning too but rather cold compared to the climate we just returned home from. First I went to see the doctor […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, Day 59-65
For the past week I have been in Hungary celebrating a wedding in the family. We were staying in Inárcs at the Bagylovár wellness hotel. They have very nice facilities for bathing and wellness. We enjoyed the stay very much. Of course I brought my RollerSafe with me and had a couple of morning rides before […]
En Route to vasaloppet 2018, day 58
Yeah! Definitely moving some heavy intervals now. One intermediate interval at kilometer 3 averaging more than 16 km/h followed by kilometer 8 too, which is a first for this roller skiing track! This is also the 3rd fastest roller ski run I have done ever. I am definitely on the right track recovering from that […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 53-57
Some time ago I wrote something about an experience of mine that high max pulse even for a short while would be very effective at lowering blood sugar levels. In the past few weeks since I was suffering from a severe cold I have been having a sort of stuffiness in my throat with a […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 51+52
I took monday off from training to spend some time in the playground with the kids. After taking the kids to daycare and kindergarten in the morning I went for a 9 k RollerSafe run. With one day of spring temperatures Saturday we are now back to cold but sunny weather. All in all not […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 47-50
Day 47 was too busy to get time for rolling. I should have been out rolling friday but I forgot my ski boots when going to visit my parents. Shit happens! Cleaned the car instead. Yesterday I went out for 12 km and today for 10 k in light rain and wet roads. Doing well […]
En Route to Vasaloppet, day 45
I am going to start this blog with a short venture into the 1st of May articles. In an interview with the Swedish sociologist Roland Paulsen (article in Swedish). He notes that the worktime has not been reduced over the last 40 years in spite of productivity being doubled over the same time period. At the […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 39-44
Been off for a while. Last Wednesday I went out for a roll but then I caught up with the flu. Subsequently I have been spending the following days and weekend in bed. Today was actually another day in bed until I couldn’t stand looking out at the sunshine anymore. So I went for a […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018, day 37+38
This is what it is all about: The map reminds me of the ultimate challenge. I am not satisfied with having done it for the first time ever this season. Now I want to seed myself for a better startposition and my target is to finish at about 6 hours. As for training today I […]
En Route to Vasaloppet 2018,day 35+36
No rolling yesterday as I was babysitting. I got a nice 9 km easy workout in the morning storm winds. Put a smile on my face.
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