Me and Dag Anders just had to go out with our bikes today. Still very good conditions in Østmarka, even if we are counting late October. I showed him the route for Terrengsykkelrittet. We had a lot of fun, to be more precise – 3 hours of fun.
[video:youtube:Mn07WCjclkQ]Check out the playlist of todays videoclips
I’m now registered. My goal is faster than 3:30 which will guarantee Birkebeinermerket. Read more about Birkebeineren at http://www.birkebeiner.no/English/Birkebeiner-history/ When done, I will never do it again. But, ok, my friend Espen said the same and he is now registered for Ultrabirken, quite sure I will do Ultrabirken as well in 2011…but, never Norseman
Yesterday Dag Anders and I spent some hours in Lillomarka on MTB. Maybe this was the last time this season. Around Sørskogen some of the puddles had ice on them, so maybe we should expect snow and more ice in just a few days.
Some small video clips uploaded to Youtube, check out the playlist
Passing Lilloseter, Coca Cola light break
Nice track between Sørskogen and Griseputten
Not so nice part of the track
At the top of Årvollåsen where Espen and I also where the day before
Today Espen and I spent about 2 hours in Lillomarka on single tracks, some offered very good conditions for biking, others…we had to walk. And all of a sudden out there in the woods we stumbled over Ole Høilands cave. You can read more about it here http://www.friluftsetaten.oslo.kommune.no/skog_mark/turtips_marka/arvoll/
We did not find “Ole Høilands skatt”, 64.000 spesidaler in 1836…a bit more than one million Norwegian kroner if compared with the current money value.
The cave
To happy biker boys
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
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
[video:youtube:qXHSVN_Uo6w]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
