On my way to work I spotted this pile of junk just by the sea in Bjørvika. But sometimes later when passing by on my way home I spotted someone getting up from the pile, to my surprise after having had a sleep. So then I realized that someone is actually living there. Not looking forward to the winter I would assume, would be surprised if the pile actually floats. Something for David Letterman and his “Will it float“
Yesterday I participated in Mjølkerampa Open, just as last year. Quite sure I had a better run this year, but still, my time was exactly one minute more. The reason for this being that on the first kilometers of the 10k’s we where just two guys speeding together, whereas last year we where at least five keeping up the pace. Sad to know that I was one kilo more this year. The order you start is based on how much, or less, you weigh. The list starts at 130 kilos, and for each kilo down to 75 you weigh less, you get 10 seconds added to your starting time. So if Contador had been 130 kilo and still as good on his bike, he would have won for sure.
Also from Rye: Espen, Jan Henrik and Leif Ivar. No pictures taken by me this year, but someone else has done their share of work and published pictures here /picasaweb.google.no/TeddyTrb/
My GPS tracking at Sports Tracker
With wife and kids away I was free yesterday to spend some hours on my bike after work. Started out from work at half past five, went home and changed from my commuter to my Kona-bike. Then head off to Østmarksetra to meet Rune and Egil. Together we did Trulsrunden. A nice trail, a bit wet yesterday, but no big issue, but combined with moderate pace we had plenty of time to share or bike knowledge with each other. See my GPS-tracking at Sportstracker
Did not have time to mount my neoguard when changing bikes, but when at home I did. Plan to use the neoguard combined with a small mudguard next Friday.
At Rimi yesterday I bought the dvd “En helt vanlig dag på jobben” for no other reason than that movie seemed to be the best one (which again says a lot about the other movies I admit). Anyhow, we spent one and a half hour watching it. Did not make me want to go out and save the world in any way, but as a time consumer on a Friday evening with the kids in bed, just perfect. And Ingar Helge Gimle is superb as SvenO
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Anders doing some heavy duty transportation at home, kinda funny so I had to take a picture of it
…for staying inside, but cycling back home, did not feel for it. Picture taken out of the window at work yesterday on my way to the locker room. But in fact it was not that bad since the temperature was quite high, did not freeze at all, but I was Wet, Wet, Wet
If you look closely you can spot the boat heading for Aker Brygge from Nesodden in the fog.
Google does not let me search for what I’m searching for, but suggest that I should search for what I was searching for.
As a start, I’m not sure what is causing this issue, actually I do not think it is the Sport Tracker application itself, I suspect my Nokia E72 GPS unit providing the application with inaccurate information. I have noticed that the altitude is many meters wrong, as I have documented in this post.
First stop, not far from my home, currently not sure of the exact height, must do a follow up, but I do thinkt 215 meters are to much. First picture showing the location.
UPDATE:: On my way home at the exact same location the altitude showed 186 meter.
Sport Tracker dashboard
The second test I’m quite sure about the height, just about 2 meters above sea level, standing at the harbor in Oslo. Note the heading saying Sankt Hanshaugen. The picture is from the GPS application on my Nokia E72, OVI maps. Sankt Hanshaugen is, as the last picture shows, more than 1 kilometer away from the harbor! Strange thing that the location mark is correct, but the address not.
Sport Tracker tells me that I’m 43 meters above sea level
…but I’m not!
The pink dot left bottom showing the location of the harbor, the yellow one right above showing Sankt Hanshaugen. The blue one to the upper right showing my first location.
When washing the winter tires (ok, I know…very late…) and later my bikes I suddenly noticed just above my head a big wasp nest. Damn those bastards! Anders got stinged last week, it did hurt but no more than that. At least we know that he is not allergic and he now have a lot of respect for the wasps. Anyhow, I did not try to remove the nest, but if I sometimes would need to remove a nest I found a how-to for how to get rid of a wasp’s nest.
Brought both my MTB’s along when visiting my in-laws this weekend to do some maintenance. Both bikes needed a good washing and some maintenance. First I had to take care of my commuter bike, I was unable to apply enough tension to it using the tension seeker. According to the user manual the best way to apply tension is upwards, but when I mounted the single speed kit earlier this year the chain was so long that it was not possible, so the chain had to run underneath the tension wheel. But now the chain had been stretched so much that I was not able to apply tension downwards either. So only solution was to cut the chain, a bit uncertain when doing that because I had to cut away two cufflinks which is about two cm as the picture shows.
The chain had to be of the cog in order for me to lock it together, but when done I could just put the chain in place by spinning the pedals like I did on my old bike when a boy and afterwards apply tension to it. So now as you can see, all according to the manual
Noticed when cleaning the chain to my Kona-bike that it was a bit damaged. A bit uncertain right now if I need to change the cassette as well because of this, must find out how to figure that out. The cufflink in the middle is damaged the most, the one to the right has got its share of beating as well, and the one to the left is as it should be
