Escape from boredom

Today running the opposite way, pictures taken from Sukkertoppen

Espen and I participated in AIM Challenge yesterday. 6 hours, 60 markers with different amount of points if you reach it. Currently not sure how many points we got, but if we have counted correctly we should have got 279,5 points. The results are not available yet.

Anyhow, much fun and we learned a lot, it was our first time (at least mine), but next time we will really go for…not gold, but a least more points

UPDATE: The results are now available – #13 of 87 🙂 !!!

Espen climbing

I was there just few minutes before

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On Friday I participated in Fredagsbirken. The weather was not good, but at least I was way more lucky than the rest ones starting on Saturday. My goal was to be one of the top 500, ended up as #40 with my 3:54:15.

Youtube-clip from yesterday

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Here you have a picture from the sports hall I spent the night before the race

And this picture is taken when I drove out of Rena Friday evening after I had returned Espen there. Pretty heavy rain, and it kept on the whole night 🙂

Participated at Mjølkerampa Open yesterday. About 10 kilometres of MTB racing, not very long but the starting positions are handed out in a different manner. From the one weighing in the most you get 10 seconds in addition for each kilogram. So the heaviest one was measured together with his bike to 141 kilo, so I had to start six minutes behind. The last two kilometres are uphill, so it’s quite intense. My puls watch had recorded 167 as max, and 160 in average. Considering my relative low max, somewhere around 180, you get a feeling of how intense this was.

Pictures from when I was finished.

Me and Dag Anders had a nice ride in Lillomarka. We started out from their house at Ammerud, followed the gravel road past Solemskogen and up to Movatn, and from there up to Burås. At Burås we had to search to find the single track towards Sinober. A lot of uphill so it was quite hard, but from Sinober to Lilloseter it is pure fun. All in all 2 and a half hour with both easy roads and technical single tracks.

Me and Dag Anders at Lilloseter. The camera on my cell phone is not that good when it comes to showing colors, just look at our legs… 🙂

On Tuesday I participated in Nissan Cup at Skullerud, a MTB-race, quite hardcore to other things I’m used to. Nice weather then, but it was wet since it had rained the days before. Funny anyhow, even if I did not make it to the podium 🙂 http://www.nissancup.no/NC2009/Ritt6/ritt6.htm

My bike was so dirty I had to stop at Esso to wash it

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Today biking from Åsa via Damtjern and Kikut back home.

The picture taken when I was a bit lost, trying to use my bike in Grenadertraseen from Løvlia to Kikut.

At least, I did find a lot of cloudberries

Together with Bendik and two of his colleagues we did went with our bikes the track to Raumerrittet http://www.raumerrittet.no/. I spent 6 hours and 45 minutes out today from when I left home until I was back. Very varm today so I’m very tired now.

Here we stopped to take a bath nearby Hakkim

So far this week I’ve spent about 7 hours bicycle riding, including 1 hour of spinning and I feel good. May was bad because of me being ill, together with Anders and Elin being ill leaving me with no training what so ever, but now I’m back in business again, and this week has started out very, very good.

Today me and Kjetil went with our mountain bikes for about 2 1/2 hours. Here you see Kjetil taking a bath at Aurevatn.

Ståle has uploaded videos to youtube

• Me and Ståle, video by Michael and his cellphone
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojt3p00WM78
• Me trying to do my best
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gI_vXUOXZQ
• Me telemarking
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unpdwyPc9Bs
• Ståle snowboarding
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So47JPsXDLc