Escape from boredom

Last Sunday I did participate in Elgrittet, a local bicycle race 53 km long. Weather was good, here just minutes before start

Finishing time 2:04:44, quite pleased with that.
Then at home…

Yesterday Espen and I with Roy as the serviceman headed for Bengtsfors to participate in Dalslands X-Country. 60 km of mostly gravel roads, some single tracks but not very technical. Fun to compete again, and extra fun since we participated as a team – ending up as #7 of 23 teams, not to bad for two fathers of young children.

And when heading home stopping at Töcksfors to eat a burger and get some b vitamins.

(Roy / Instagram: royzvoice)

Yesterday, spinning to Fidlar and their album Fidlar.

FIDLAR is a skate punk/garage punk band from Los Angeles California. currently signed to Mom + Pop Music in the US, Wichita Recordings in the UK and Dine Alone Records in Canada. Wikipedia

Well worth listening to!!

Today needed a short album, found Torgny’s new album “Oil Panic” using Wimp. Not what I did expect, somewhat good album, but I won’t listen to it again, while spinning at least. In Norwegian, read the review by Natt & Dag “SCHIZOFRENI SATT I SYSTEM”

Yesterday, again quality time out in the barn, well dressed since it was below 0, spinning to Bruce Springsteen’s old album Born in the U.S.A.. It did actually work very well as workout music while spinning!

Trying to match the beat of Working on the Highway my pulse increased a lot
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Couple of days ago, spinning to Pearl Jam again, this time the album Binaural released back in 2000. A bit to laid back for me while spinning, I must admit that I fast forwarded the two-three latest songs and ended up with David Guetta.

Early Sunday morning, got up before the others. Got some quality time in the barn spinning to Pearl Jam and their latest album Lightning Bolt. Good one, but as most of the other albums from Pearl Jam I will have to listen to it more than once to really start enjoying it.

Went to Arendal together with friends this weekend to try Tungvekteren. Weather forecast was promising and also accurate. So after getting up early on Saturday morning, jumping into the car and heading down to Arendal we started biking at around 12:00.

Someone have had technical problems

Trine on one of the most spectacular spots on the track.

At the hotel, we stayed at Tyholmen, pretty nice!

And it turned out to be a beer festival there the same evening, which we could not refuse to attend.

This one from Nøgne Ø, 16%, coffee among the other ingredients.

Sunday morning view

Steinar and Espen enjoying the view

The view

Since we deserve it, hamburger and Cola on our way home.

Me and Piper, our neighbor, or to be more correct – our neighbors dog – went out running two days ago. I got pulled a lot for the first half hour, but the rest we were more or less helping each other. Fun to not be all alone, also since it got pitch-dark at the end.

Out running yesterday and with the help of a map and a compass I did do some border control That is, trying to figure out what is our land and what is the neighbors land (say it with the tunes of This Is Your Land in the back of your head). Passing this bog I had to take some pictures, was a pretty nice view.

Afterwards I made a huge fire. Had collected a lot of branches and covered them with plastic the past two months, so they where really dry. One single match made all this.