Actually first time in 2 years. Last years I was a bit slow.
I took home the skies from the storage and fixed them up and everything.
By the next day the snow had melted so was just to take em back to the storage again.
Pretty much like my sun chairs this summer, used them 2 times carrying them out and bringing them in. hehe

Last night, night I was at Christmas party with my work. Came home quite early, which I was happy for this morning. The sun was shinning maybe bit cold -12c but i was ready to hit the ski tracks.
Took me around 5 meters and I at least hit the first ditch in the first turn.  I'm probably not gonna make it to the Swedish Crosscountry ski team this year either. hehe

Haven't been writing much lately, I blame offseason, hehe

So, been down too Nice, France to run Nice - Cannes Marathon.
Last week before the trip was an nightmare. I had high fever the whole week until the morning off when we were leaving. Thank god. Haven't been the most comfortable trip. It's enough that i was afraid of flying, hehe.

So the Marathon, I wasn't exactly in peak performance so the plan was to have a nice run. Aiming for an pace around 5.20 min/km pace. My goal was hitting 5 min pace to get an 3.390 time.

The run started good, really nice running along the sea. Then at 14k, my piece of crap to knee started hurting. I couldn't quit the race. No one, I mean no one down there knows English. I didn't know if would wind up in jail, some island or some town that doesn't have high speed internet.

So just thinking of no pain no gain. At the pace i was going i wasn't really going to gain anything, hehe
Last 10k I counted that if I just would speed up a little I could make it sub 4 hours. And I did it: 3:58, small victory. Mostly happy that i could push myself around.

After in the evening we celebrated with some French wine and relaxed. =)

Next Sunday is my last big race for this year: Marathon des alpes-maritimes (Nice - Cannes) in France.
Leaving Sweden on Friday and coming home on Monday. Going to be a great weekend, going with my friend Christian. It's going to be a more of a fun thing to finnish of this season of running.

My form right now isn't directly on top, i'm a bit overtrained and been with my kid who is been sick almost all week in fever. Hope i don't catch anything.

This two last week beens most resting and maintenance running around 1k run's.
Did my last long run last Saturday with an 25k sub 5 kmh/m pace.

Next week might do some swimming and just loading for the race =)

My only nightmare is that I'm afraid of flying.
Quite fun when i'm an educated flight mechanic even worked with it and worked with cabin training and on pilot training. Should know how safe it is. But know a lot of shit that can go wrong also, hehe
On the way home i can at least take a couple of drinks ;)


This dosen't look to bad, just around the first snow coming down here in Sweden.

Today I had my last 10k race for this year. *finnaly* hehe
The whole week I have been completely wasted. Right after my son has gone to bed at 8pm i've been sleeping on the sofa or something. Caffein has had the same effect on me as if you were going to fight a  Samuraj master with a toothpick. (probably even screwed the other way around also, hehe)

But still I stood there on the starting line with a goal of at least doing personal best. My original goal was sub 40min. Maybe I should have set my goal not getting a heart attack. hehe

Started fine with a 3.52 min/km pace on the first k.
Second k did a 3.50 pace and feeling ok, thinking wtf I think I can hold this pace. I knew that I wouldn't but hey I was cheering for myself, hehe.
Reality was more that I hoped that I wouldn't drop so much. After 3k i droped to 3.06 still ok.

4k and big f** chinese wall hit me right in the face!
Pretty much had energy to hit speed dial for a cab. Hoped this was just a short dip.
It wasent!

When sub 40 went away, then my PB, so was my motivation.

Saw later a someone from my club (väsby triathlon) so hit the nitro button up to say hi.
Short conversation me saying mostly:  ahhhhhhhaaaaaa I ahhhhhaaaaa AM ahhhhhaaaa T AAHHHAA red.

But noticed that i could hold the pace so tried to hold on. Amazing what some company can do.
A lot is in the head.

We hold together all the way and i ran off just last 100-200 meters.
I have really great finnish, even when i'm totally out of energy. But it's not worth much when the winner is in the car on his way home when i cross the finnish line, hehe

Got 42.30 on 10k. Nothing that is winding up in the Christmas tree. But still feels ok running that on an really bad day.

Want to give a big Congrats to some of my frinds who did really awsome times today, keep it up =)

Förra helgen var det full fart.

Lördagen var det Tjur ruset.


Sen kom vi till första jätte backen, min ben var inte redo för det här. Gick tungt upp halka omkring och gick större delen uppför. Sen efter neför släppte det lite i bennen.
Specielt när det var kö där också. Tappa helt känseln i benen. Var ett ställe där det var riktigt kallt vatten
nära få lite panik när det gick långsamt, var så kallt att jag ville bara upp ur vattnet.
Snabbt ombytte sen. När man väl fått i sig kaffe och torra kläder så tyckte man det var riktigt kul lopp.