Escape from boredom

My team needs 5 escort car drivers for Trondheim – Oslo on the 21’st of June. All expenses will be paid, you only need a drivers license and a day of form work – Friday the 20’th.

Følgebilsjåfør søkes! Vi trenger følgebilsjåfører til Styrkeprøven, noen jeg kjenner som leser bloggen min som tenkes kan bidra for en god sak, nemlig å få laget mitt og meg fra Trondheim til Oslo på 15 timer? Laget dekker dine utgifter, men du må ofre i underkant 2 1/2 dag av ditt liv på oss, fra fredag 20 til litt utpå natta lørdag 21.

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.

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 …. 🙁

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 🙂

Participated in Megamila today, 10 kilometers time trial today. Finished at the time 15:39, all in all ok, remember I don’t have time trial equipment and such 🙂

Check out my hair when finished

The complete list
http://idrett.speaker.no/Downloads/…

The plan today was to join Lille40 (Lillehammer – Oslo 40 km/h average), but since I had misplaced my bike pump I was about 30 seconds to late to be able to join them. I saw they started out from Hydro just when I got on top of the hill, but I was to far away from them to shout, and when I got to the next roundabout I turned left where they had turned right. So I ended up going by myself to Roa and then to Maura, the same route as a couple of weeks ago. 140 kilometers all in all in about 5 hours, must admit that my legs was still hurting after Enebakk Rundt on thursday.

On my way over the hill between Roa and Maura this sign was placed on the road. Luckily the water had withdrawn from the road so no need for me to turn around. I read this article yesterday so I knew that there would be a slight chance for it…
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/05/02/534253.html

Click “Read more” to see the route

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My team and I managed to do Enebakk Rundt almost as fast as we had hoped for. 2.05.44 is the official time for our team, 2.04 was our goal, but if we give us some slack due to the weather I would say that we managed!

My results:

Resultater for: Rune Hellem
Start Nr. 605
Klubb SK Rye
Alder 35
Kjønn Mann
Distanse 80 km
Aldersgruppe Menn 30-39 år
Startgruppe Pulje 10 – 9:45 – SK RYE II

Punkt/sted Akk.Tid Splitt km/t min/km
80 km 2:05:53 2:05:53 38.13 1:34

Offisiell starttid 9:00:36
Reell starttid 9:00:53
Brutto tid 2:05:53
Netto tid 2:05:36

Plass
brutto / netto
Aldersgruppe 67 | 58
Kjønn 147 | 126
Over all 147 | 126

Find more at
http://results.ultimate.dk/live/front/index.php?e=503&t=www&l=no

Hei og takk

Den er god, da bekrefter jeg

1. JA, jeg er med på 15-timer’n.

Har i utgangspunktet skrevet meg på 17-timer’n, melder fra til Gunnar at jeg
bytter lag. Biter tenna sammen og satser hardt på at dette skal gå. 🙂
….

So now I’m part of the team with the ambition of finishing Den Store Styrkeprøven in less than 15-hours if good conditions. Doh!

Not sure what the phrase “Alea jacat est” means? Find it out here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est

Today we started out on the same route as yesterday, but when at Roa we headed over the mountain to Maura, then back to Skedsmokorset, via Gjelleråsen and back home. All in all a bit more than 140K. A nice day, with sunshine and all.

Afterwards Espen came to visit us and we washed our bikes.

Yesterday I joined Lille 40 (Lillehammer – Oslo 40 km/h average) on their training. I started from home and meet them at Gjelleråsen. We went back and forth to Roa in Nittedal. A total of 110 kilometers, it was good weather as well, so the five of us had a very nice ride.