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Nordmarka Rundt today

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Today I competed together with my team in Nordmarka Rundt. 155 kilometers around…Nordmarka. Starting from Valle Hovin, towards Bærum, Jevnaker, Roa and back to Valle Hovin. My team did reach our goal almost, I believe we ended up with the time 4.20, we where hoping for 4.18. I had to stop about 500 meters before the finish line due to one man flipping over and hitting the pavement. Not sure by now, but we assume he fractured his collar bone. The accident was caused by a stupid driver in a car forcing his way out in front of us, making the first ones brake hard. Sadly enough we had four men down today, that is way to many!! I’m just lucky it wasn’t me…

Today I passed 2000 kilometers on my bike this year.

My latest book – “Gøy på landet? Landbruk i ei postmoderne tid”

Books

My latest book is “Gøy på landet? Landbruk i ei postmoderne tid” written by Dag Jørund Lønning. Just found it in the bookshelf and decided to read it. A present to Elin from her friend Arve for her 25’th birthday.

Forfattaren ser på framtida til det norske landbruket, og hevdar at det finst eit rekrutteringspotensial til landbruket dersom styresmaktene er villige til å lytte til kva dei unge seier. Boka freistar å utvikle eit nytt syn på landbruket, der verdiar er viktigare enn pengar. Landbrukspolitikken har i stor monn redusert gardsdrift til eit spørsmål om kroner og øre og subsidiar. Dei unge er meir opptekne av sosiale, kulturelle og økologiske verdiar seier forfattaren. Han oppfordrer styresmaktene til å tenkje nytt og til å leggje forholda til rette for eit alternativt landbruk.

Can someone please tell me what “røyndom” means?

Yet another cryptic review

Anything but the other

Found this in the latest issue of Ny Tid. Again in Norwegian

Etter Michael Mores suksess har det flommet over av subjektive slentre-foran-kamera-dokumentarfilmer. Debbie Melnyk og Rick Caines På Sporet av M.M er en underlig avart av undersjangeren. Den presenterer seg som en metametodefilm i rekken av filmer som bruker Moores stil mot Moore selv, men ender snarere opp som en ufrivillig iscenesettelse av et skuffet politisk begjær over den potensielle lederskikkelsens manglende messianisme i hverdagen.

WTF?

Todays bicycle ride

Sport

Had planned to go with my team around Nordmarka today, but after a telephone conversation with Espen yesterday I gave in even before I had started. Due to the race yesterday I agreed with him that it would be better for me to slow down today, so I went alone around Mjermen today. First to Bjørkelangen, via Setskog and Rømskog and at last Hemnes back home to Vestreng. All in all 105 km.

The sun was shining, a lot of pretty nature, and I also saw a sparrowhawk sitting next to the road (or at least I assume it that, at least it was a hawk of some kind). I also got, as yesterday, plenty of wind towards me …. 🙁

Special cookies when I go on long bicycle rides

Sport

Yesterday I baked “biking cookies” after the recipe I found on the web page belonging to Team Jæren. The url to the recipe is found here http://www.teamjaren.no/2008/hva-skal-du-spise/ (Norwegian). Tried it today when riding Ceresrittet, did the trick. Easy to chew, did not make me cough, and packed with energy. In addition I added flaked coconut and some dried fruit (raisins, mango and such). The picture is not very good, but at least you get a sense of the amount of cookies.

Apart from that, I managed to stay with the rest of the bunch for 20 kilometers, then I lost them. I thought “not to worry, others will soon catch me up so I can ride with them..”…but no! I continued for 50 kilometers all alone, only the last 12 kilometers did I see others, and the last 10 I was able to get help by riding behind others. Anyhow, about 25 minutes behind the winner of my class, that is as expected.

Sun protection cream, who thought of that, I was not going to the beach…

I did not finish last 🙂

I hurt myself here the other day

Anything but the other

I woke up a few nights ago and felt really thirsty so I stood up and walked to the kitchen. When standing there in the dark I saw that the glass was on the table in the living room. I picked it up, and when walking back to the kitchen I managed to kick my foot really hard into one of our chairs. It did hurt like he¤#, but I managed not to shout, drank my water and got back to bed. After five minutes with the pain not going away I turned on the light on my cell phone and checked my toe, there was blood!!! So I got up and applied a band aid.

The next day Elin found a lot of blood on the floor – so I took pictures of it to prove how hard I was hurt … the first one is from the bed…

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