Went to the movies yesterday to see Inception together with my brother Jonas (hopefully he will not be harmed by the fact that he is to young to see it 🙂 ). Two and a half hours packed with excitement I must say. Jonas summarized with saying “I enjoyed it, in it’s own way it was not to unreal”…and skipping some logical issues, he is totally right. An evening well worth spending in the movie theater!
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Beta testing the new Sport Tracker application
Sport Tracker was first an application provided by Nokia, but is now maintained by Sports Tracking Technologies. Cut’n paste from their webpage, here are the key facts
- Sports Tracking Technologies was founded 2009 by Ykä Huhtala, Jussi Kaasinen and Antti Sorvari, after a successful spin-off from Nokia
- Headquarters in Helsinki, Finland
- Nokia Sports Tracker beta was released in 2007 by Nokia and it has millions of users worldwide
- Sports Tracker for Nokia S60 5.0 touch phones was released by Sports Tracking Technologies in April 2010
As one of the lucky few responding very fast to a post on Facebook I got to beta test the new product. I had already downloaded the early-version, but had not tested it more than once since the GPS-connection failed. So I just kept on using the old version from Nokia since I considered it bulletproofed. Might have been just a one time issue, but since the webpage was not up and running enabling me to upload workouts I did not bother finding out.
But, now I have the updated version, and it is just running smoothly. Some updates to the user interface, but no big changes leaving me lost in menus and such. Some screenshots from the application
Starting a new workout, you now have even more activities to choose from, but as before also the opportunity to define you own.
The calendar as before, but they have added the line separating the weekend from the rest of the week, a small change, but making it even easier to view your workouts.
Here you see the summary of my workout today. A bit more info added, together with the map. Must admit I find for instance Google Maps more detailed than OpenStreetmap but this is really no issue since they don’t use OpenStreetmap on the webpage.
Testing replay of the workout on the phone. Must admit that I was not aware of this functionality, mainly because the previous Nokia version is translated to Norwegian and the word “gjentagelse” did not explain to me what it did, and I did not bother to find out either. But “replay” in the beta version made me interested…
Here you see the summary before uploading a workout to the webpage, also enabling you to add a description of the workout before uploading.
Now you also have the possibility to share your workout on Facebook, done directly from your phone while uploading.
As I am aware of right now the new version is missing something that I really liked in the old Nokia version, that being
- The possibility to say that your new workout is based on an old route. I did for instance have to saved routes which I used frequently – to and from work. Not that I spent time comparing my times each day, but it would be fun comparing competitions from one year to another and having saved routes are easier than navigating based on dates to find what you will compare your workout against.
- The possibility to share your workout while your doing it, meaning that someone can view your current position on the webpage. When out on singletracks all by myself, I enjoyed the possibility to share my current position, so if I where to have an accident and knocking myself unconscious the ones at home would be able to see approximately where I was. Luckily I have not needed this…yet 🙂
Would have been nice to test the HR-functionality as well, but I do not bother to buy new stash for my Polar watch, been using to gadgets for the past seven months and I’m ok with that.
Fine tuning my Polar pulse watch
Amazing or what?
Training while mowing the lawn
Had to mowe the lawn today, but also take care of Anders, what else to do than have him on my back…more than 15 kilos extra.
Causing a radial head subluxation to my sons left arm
Nursemaid’s elbow, Babysitter’s elbow or Pulled elbow is a dislocation of the elbow joint caused by a sudden pull on the extended pronated arm, such as by an adult tugging on an uncooperative child. The technical term for the injury is radial head subluxation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursemaid%27s_elbow
While passing a crosswalk Anders was not as cooperative as I wanted, and combined with the fact that a bus was approaching us I grabbed his arm and pulled him over to the other side. He then started to cry a bit and seemed uncomfortable. I then carried him home and realized when he got undressed that his left arm was just hanging straight down. We headed straight for the emergency ward where we immediately got help. The doctor spent about a minute or two figuring out what had happened, then he spent just 5 seconds and voila…just like magic the arm was fixed and just a minute afterwards Anders was climbing around on everything like nothing had happened.
Must admit that I felt like a very bad parent having caused him such an injury, but then again I was calmed down at the emergency ward when the doctor told me that this was a very common injury and that at least Anders was better of with the injury than being hit by a bus…puhh!!
Navy ship from the Netherlands, Lion’s mane jellyfish and an electrical bike
On my way to work today I stopped down by the harbor to take a picture of a oncoming ship. It was the hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Snellius (A 802) of the Netherlands Navy.
Then I also noticed a bunch of Lion’s mane jellyfish below me. Good for me that I was not about to take a swim! Must admit that I find the amount of jellyfish a bit scary, scientist are having trouble explaining the amount of jellyfishes invading our fjords this and previous years. But the most reasonable explanation involves overfishing as the reason for it, less fish, more jellyfish.
“Two-thirds of Europe’s fish stocks are heavily overfished”
International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, Annual fish stock status reports
This, and other things like the bee colony collapse disorder makes me fear where the future. Not so much for my own sake, I do only have, give or take a few, 40 more years to walk (cycle) on this earth, but my two boys have the double of that (I hope). So what challenges they will have to struggle with in their future is something I do spend some time worrying about. When I grew up we did fear the atomic bomb, but that was simpler. Either the war started, or it did not, and luckily it did not. Climate changes (for whatever reason), overfishing, pollution of the earth, etc, etc…all these things are happening, they cannot be avoided, so I feel that I only can cross my fingers and hope for the best…
But, enough of that, when I started pedaling again a guy passed me riding a bike equipped with an electrical support engine. He went in a ridiculously high speed compared to the cadence. Must admit that I do have some trouble getting the point, why spend so much money on a bike with a crappy engine, why not instead then by a scooter? OR a fancy bike powered by you only, and get the exercise as a bonus???
Thor Hushovd making me go a bit further
Yesterday Elin and the boys where still at Vestreng so I enjoyed my dinner in the canteen watching Tour De France on the big screen. Stayed there an extra hour since Hushovd did a brilliant stage winning back the green jersey.
So when heading back home I decided to do a few extra kilometers. Headed towards Jar, here down by Lysakerelva realizing that this was a dead end
Then up to Tryvann, and also passing Skjennungen where I stopped to take this picture.
Then passing Ullevålseter down to Hammeren, and home via Kjelsås. All in all 41 kilometers on my single speed, nice! See the route at Sportstracker
Alternative route to my in-laws
Two days ago I had almost the whole day alone, no kids to take care of, and with the sun shining from a clear blue sky what better thing to do than spend the day on my bike. Elin and Iver went with the car to Vestreng and I followed them on my bike. Started out towards Romsås and Romsåstoppen, the highest point of the day 448 meters above sea level. Had fun down the trail towards Nittedal, had one fall on a very slippery rock, but managed to jump of the bike and avoided falling with my head first down a small cliff. Then towards Leirsund and over the hill and down to Fetsund. Ice break there before trying to go around Varsjøen. Spent some time there due to the fact that there where no trail. Had to carry the bike for almost half an hour, but got a bonus: The trail down from Brattåsen, much fun. But when out on the road towards Aurskog I was all out of something to drink, and with the warm weather that was no good. So when at Aurskog I visited Hanne and had about an hour break getting plenty to drink and eat. Then the last 20k was just a walk in the park. See the whole route here at Sportstracker
Elin singing in church at our wedding last year
In three days it is one year since we got married, what better occasion than our one year anniversary to upload the video of Elin singing to Youtube. Use the direct link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-57qDd2WE or watch the embedded clip below.
[video:youtube:rK-57qDd2WE]Johan Lundgren is playing the guitar and Lars Tormod Jenset is playing the bass. Roy Helmersen did his share of work behind the camera.
(Roy / Instagram: royzvoice)
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening….
1000 lightnings pr. hour last night. I was just about to go to bed around midnight when the action started. I tried to catch it with my camera, but that was no easy task. The first picture is taken towards downtown Oslo from home. As you can see I should have used my tripod, anyhow, the second picture show how much light the lightnings created.
Did you recognize the title of the post? Bohemian Rhapsody