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Todays bicycle ride

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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

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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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What I’ve done today

Anything but the other

I’ve been active today.

First I used the high-pressure hose to clean the tarmac outside our main entrance because it was covered with moss. You can see the stripes on the tarmac after the water jetting.

Then, after we have had a lot of visitors today I went out and painted the mounting covering the cable tv cables.

I finished up the work today with moving the lawn for the first time this year. Here you see Elin and Anders going out for a walk over the mowed lawn.

Can someone please translate…

Leisure

For those of you that are able to understand Norwegian, can you please help me explain this review of the new DVD-release of the Swedish movie “Du levande” . The review is from the latest issue of Ny Tid

50 stiliserte øyeblikk som beskriver det svenske folkehemmet. 50 utforskninger av affektene som dominerer samtiden: Tragikomikk som ikke evner å bli til melankoli fordi det ikke finnes noen underliggende mening som kan gi den grunnleggende nihilismen et anstrøk av alvor. Roy Andersen Du levande tar tråden videre fra Sanger fra andre etasje og viser at film i ytterste grad kan være kunst med filosofisk og kritisk dybde.

Freakin bullshit!

My car has now

Anything but the other

My car has now passed 70.000 kilometers, still going strong. I thought when I got to know that we should get a child that I needed to buy a new one, but no – we perfectly manage. Peugeot 206 SW covers all our needs.

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