First of all, I’m so sorry for not writing anything for a very very long time. I’ve had some extremely busy months with loads of work due to the split, and then when coming home, opening the PC is not exactly what I crave to do ;) But, I’ve been training a lot, and I ran my first ever full marathon
in August. I’ll give you an update on everything below, including my trip to Peru. But first, how are all of you? How was your summer? I’ve had an active summer, and also active fall. I’ve focused on training outside, and to spend time in the beautiful Norwegian nature. Sooner than later winter is coming and then we only have a few hours of daylight to play in…. and these few hours are
often spent inside in the office. So get outside and play
Summer vacation in Peru (where it was winter)
I made a promise to my dad after climbing Kilimanjaro, to join him on an adventure to Peru. So 2nd July we set forth. I cannot go into detail on everything we did, so to make it short; it was amazing. We hiked down (and up again) Colca Canyon, we had a few days’ visits on the Titicaca lake, where we also hiked up a small mountain. We visited numerous Inca places, and ended with a hike on the Salkatay trek to Macchu Picchu. Active days every day, and with almost 3 weeks spent over 3000 amsl it also gave us perfect altitude training
Aker Solutions annual cycling trip from Lysebotn to Kristiansand
I finally managed to join this fantastic cycling trip! I’ve been signed up the last three times, but different circumstances have made me cancel it. This time however I was pumped and ready, and of course I was signed up for the long distance; 220km with (at least) 3 pretty hard climbs the first day. The first one is from sea level to about 1000m in not very long distance, straight up, climbing at a… how to say it, abnormal angle for cycling. My manager; Ole Jan Friestad, and MMO’s CIO Geir Aarvik made a promise to stay with me, and to motivate me up the hills. We
started and it went OK… to start with, then after a few hours it started to rain… or it’s fairer to say; showered. After 10min we were soaking wet, and in 1 degree centigrade weather you can do the math yourself. It was horrible… my legs stiffened, I could hardly speak and not at all use my fingers to brake. Down the last hill to our main stop (after about 7 hours) I almost cried and
had decided to quit. I was after all going to run a marathon the next weekend, and this was just inhuman. If it didn’t kill me it would surely give me a heavy cold. I stopped my bike and Ole Jan asked how I felt. How to respond to that I briefly thought? I’m not a quitter, I am strong and I can handle mental and physical challenges… but today I’ve hit the wall, I was exhausted, disappointed, extremely cold and not at all motivated for another 70km… I said; “I have two choices, I can change all my clothes or I can quit” – and then, I saw the bus with our bags in! Hipp hurray! Ole Jan cheered me up, and basically told me I had no reason to quit when I could change into dry clothes. So that’s what I did, I used veeeeeeeeery long time to change, and bought myself I treat afterwards before hitting the road again. The next 3 hours went superb, it was almost to warm ;) After in total 10 hours cycling we finally came to our first hotel and what a victory that was in my head! Thank you so much for staying with me the entire trip Ole Jan and Geir, if it weren’t for you guys I would have quit. Also, I have to mention, today was a horrible day not only for me, but for all of us. It was extremely wet and cold; people were soaking wet, freezing, shaking and tired. But we all did it; we pushed through and thanks to an amazing team giving us food, drinks, blankets and motivating words we all finished in pretty good shape.
The next day the sun was shining and the last leg to Kristiansand was lovely. All in all I recon this
was a perfect distance training for the marathon next week. Again, thank you
Sykkelprosjektet Stavanger for an amazing trip!
Marathon (Stavanger), half marathon (Oslo) and half marathon (Sandnes)
30 August 2014 I did something that, up to then, was listed on my “Not to do list”… I know, normally people have “To do lists” but some things are just insane to think about, so running a
full marathon was, together with climbing Mt. Everest and other crazy things, on this list of mine… I’ve always said it is too long, too hard, I’m not build for it, it requires too much and so on… the list is long. BUT because I cannot say no to a challenge, especially when it’s certain people challenging me… I stood there, nervous like crazy early Saturday morning amongst super fit, super skinny and super “marathon-type-looking people with a BIB on my chest. Ready or
not, this was it. Bang! The start went, and I told myself; the next time your
feet stops you’ve ran 42,195km!
I must admit, I’ve had many hours sitting all still and thought about this race. I’ve been through questions like; How to keep “out of the head”?, In what pace to run? Music or no music? What if I must quit? Or… what if my mind tells me to quit, how to convince myself I can do it? What to eat? How often should I eat? What to drink? Should I sit still, or keep training the last week? If training, how much? I’m sure I’ve been through a million questions and a million scenarios. But now I was running, with music, and I had one goal; to finish by running the entire race. I told myself the time was not important, but of course it is…. Deep inside I hoped to finish on less than 5 hours. And…
I did; I finished on 4:28 and am soooo proud! While running the only thing I cared about was my pulse and to keep it below 80% of max. I had a steady pace and during the whole race I saw each km as a victory and cheered with a “wohoo” for each one. My dad, mum and sister drove around and also cheered when they saw me. Thank you so much for that! So, tick, first ever full marathon – done!
3 weeks later it was time for Oslo Half marathon. Remember last year? Where I failed completely? I had that very fresh in my mind, and was determined not to do the same mistakes again. I knew I was in better shape, but… would the marathon have done too much damage? I
started slow, and kept the focus on my pulse. But after a while (10km) I decided to just go for it, I slowly ran faster and even though my heart rate jumped to over 190 I kept running steady and tried to keep focused. It was so fun running this day, and everything worked just as it should. I even raced as fast as I could the last 400m, and finished…. three… THREE!!!!! seconds behind
my best time ever! How is that even possible?? Arg… but I was very happy with the race, and after all it was 8 min better than last year ;) So Oslo, bring it on for 2015 – THEN I’ll beat you!
Sandnes half marathon
Today (5th Oct.) I ran Sandnes halfmarathon. I signed up only last week, and since this is the first time they arrange it, and I have not (well almost not...) been training anything the past two weeks, I just wanted to finish below 2h. It was a hard race, with a massive insane crazy climb up a monster hill two times, and a mix of gravel and asphalt running. The weather was perfect and everything felt superb. I managed to finish at 1:52:28 and am very pleased with that.
Other things
In addition to the above, I’ve done a lot of trail running in the nearby mountains, I’ve taken a kitesurfing course and, yes you can guess it, I’ve been running like crazy ;) Now my focus is Himalaya and Island Peak. I am super excited
in August. I’ll give you an update on everything below, including my trip to Peru. But first, how are all of you? How was your summer? I’ve had an active summer, and also active fall. I’ve focused on training outside, and to spend time in the beautiful Norwegian nature. Sooner than later winter is coming and then we only have a few hours of daylight to play in…. and these few hours are
often spent inside in the office. So get outside and play
Summer vacation in Peru (where it was winter)
I made a promise to my dad after climbing Kilimanjaro, to join him on an adventure to Peru. So 2nd July we set forth. I cannot go into detail on everything we did, so to make it short; it was amazing. We hiked down (and up again) Colca Canyon, we had a few days’ visits on the Titicaca lake, where we also hiked up a small mountain. We visited numerous Inca places, and ended with a hike on the Salkatay trek to Macchu Picchu. Active days every day, and with almost 3 weeks spent over 3000 amsl it also gave us perfect altitude training
Aker Solutions annual cycling trip from Lysebotn to Kristiansand
I finally managed to join this fantastic cycling trip! I’ve been signed up the last three times, but different circumstances have made me cancel it. This time however I was pumped and ready, and of course I was signed up for the long distance; 220km with (at least) 3 pretty hard climbs the first day. The first one is from sea level to about 1000m in not very long distance, straight up, climbing at a… how to say it, abnormal angle for cycling. My manager; Ole Jan Friestad, and MMO’s CIO Geir Aarvik made a promise to stay with me, and to motivate me up the hills. We
started and it went OK… to start with, then after a few hours it started to rain… or it’s fairer to say; showered. After 10min we were soaking wet, and in 1 degree centigrade weather you can do the math yourself. It was horrible… my legs stiffened, I could hardly speak and not at all use my fingers to brake. Down the last hill to our main stop (after about 7 hours) I almost cried and
had decided to quit. I was after all going to run a marathon the next weekend, and this was just inhuman. If it didn’t kill me it would surely give me a heavy cold. I stopped my bike and Ole Jan asked how I felt. How to respond to that I briefly thought? I’m not a quitter, I am strong and I can handle mental and physical challenges… but today I’ve hit the wall, I was exhausted, disappointed, extremely cold and not at all motivated for another 70km… I said; “I have two choices, I can change all my clothes or I can quit” – and then, I saw the bus with our bags in! Hipp hurray! Ole Jan cheered me up, and basically told me I had no reason to quit when I could change into dry clothes. So that’s what I did, I used veeeeeeeeery long time to change, and bought myself I treat afterwards before hitting the road again. The next 3 hours went superb, it was almost to warm ;) After in total 10 hours cycling we finally came to our first hotel and what a victory that was in my head! Thank you so much for staying with me the entire trip Ole Jan and Geir, if it weren’t for you guys I would have quit. Also, I have to mention, today was a horrible day not only for me, but for all of us. It was extremely wet and cold; people were soaking wet, freezing, shaking and tired. But we all did it; we pushed through and thanks to an amazing team giving us food, drinks, blankets and motivating words we all finished in pretty good shape.
The next day the sun was shining and the last leg to Kristiansand was lovely. All in all I recon this
was a perfect distance training for the marathon next week. Again, thank you
Sykkelprosjektet Stavanger for an amazing trip!
Marathon (Stavanger), half marathon (Oslo) and half marathon (Sandnes)
30 August 2014 I did something that, up to then, was listed on my “Not to do list”… I know, normally people have “To do lists” but some things are just insane to think about, so running a
full marathon was, together with climbing Mt. Everest and other crazy things, on this list of mine… I’ve always said it is too long, too hard, I’m not build for it, it requires too much and so on… the list is long. BUT because I cannot say no to a challenge, especially when it’s certain people challenging me… I stood there, nervous like crazy early Saturday morning amongst super fit, super skinny and super “marathon-type-looking people with a BIB on my chest. Ready or
not, this was it. Bang! The start went, and I told myself; the next time your
feet stops you’ve ran 42,195km!
I must admit, I’ve had many hours sitting all still and thought about this race. I’ve been through questions like; How to keep “out of the head”?, In what pace to run? Music or no music? What if I must quit? Or… what if my mind tells me to quit, how to convince myself I can do it? What to eat? How often should I eat? What to drink? Should I sit still, or keep training the last week? If training, how much? I’m sure I’ve been through a million questions and a million scenarios. But now I was running, with music, and I had one goal; to finish by running the entire race. I told myself the time was not important, but of course it is…. Deep inside I hoped to finish on less than 5 hours. And…
I did; I finished on 4:28 and am soooo proud! While running the only thing I cared about was my pulse and to keep it below 80% of max. I had a steady pace and during the whole race I saw each km as a victory and cheered with a “wohoo” for each one. My dad, mum and sister drove around and also cheered when they saw me. Thank you so much for that! So, tick, first ever full marathon – done!
3 weeks later it was time for Oslo Half marathon. Remember last year? Where I failed completely? I had that very fresh in my mind, and was determined not to do the same mistakes again. I knew I was in better shape, but… would the marathon have done too much damage? I
started slow, and kept the focus on my pulse. But after a while (10km) I decided to just go for it, I slowly ran faster and even though my heart rate jumped to over 190 I kept running steady and tried to keep focused. It was so fun running this day, and everything worked just as it should. I even raced as fast as I could the last 400m, and finished…. three… THREE!!!!! seconds behind
my best time ever! How is that even possible?? Arg… but I was very happy with the race, and after all it was 8 min better than last year ;) So Oslo, bring it on for 2015 – THEN I’ll beat you!
Sandnes half marathon
Today (5th Oct.) I ran Sandnes halfmarathon. I signed up only last week, and since this is the first time they arrange it, and I have not (well almost not...) been training anything the past two weeks, I just wanted to finish below 2h. It was a hard race, with a massive insane crazy climb up a monster hill two times, and a mix of gravel and asphalt running. The weather was perfect and everything felt superb. I managed to finish at 1:52:28 and am very pleased with that.
Other things
In addition to the above, I’ve done a lot of trail running in the nearby mountains, I’ve taken a kitesurfing course and, yes you can guess it, I’ve been running like crazy ;) Now my focus is Himalaya and Island Peak. I am super excited
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