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Another kind of Christmas
Happy New Year to everyone! My 2013 ended with fracture in the coccyx. A small hit onto a stone while sledging that has turned into a real nightmare and disturbed my winter training for weeks...
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Restructuring
I've been struggling with this tailbone injury for over 3 weeks now and starting to lose my nerves! I guess it's already a little better but it's been a real pain in the ass, literally, and I'm quite...
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Just when I thought it can’t get any worse it did. I wrote earlier about a coccyx injury but it turned out to be a broken pelvis. A transverse fracture in the sacrum. S3 bone broken into two pieces...
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Idiot abroad
Time flies. During the past weeks it has actually stood still but the three years I've spent here in UK have gone fast and I'd like to sum it up before moving out. It's been wonderful time but also an...
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Strålende Treningssamling
As soon as I got the result from the second scan I headed to Portugal. Sacrum had healed well and I got permission to start to run again, gently and cautiously with care. Doctor told me that I should...
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Season opening
Initially Danish Spring was supposed to be my season opening and I was quite excited about it. To be honest I took a bit of head start already in Portugal a few weeks earlier but it was still part of...
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Too much too soon?
It's been a busy month and I've barely had time to absorb everything that has happened. After things started to roll, they've rolled really fast. I've just enjoyed the flow and at some point I lost the...
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Back in Sweden!
A week after EOC we moved to Sweden, somewhere between Trelleborg and Karesuando, to quote a friend. Or between Stockholm and Uppsala to be a bit more specific. Initially we wanted to have a villa with...
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Roller coaster of emotions
It seems that we have a tendency to create a bit drama when it comes to big relays like Venla or 10mila. Sometimes it's about surprising everyone by winning the relay with an unknown team, sometimes...
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Un espresso, grazie!
Just a few days ago I came home from another great training camp in Italian Dolomites seasoned with home-made pasta and a good cup of coffee. I made my first visit there already in 2004 when I ran the...
View ArticleRunning through the pain
A week ago I was feeling great and looking forward to 3 Days of Trenches, that is a couple of WRE races in WOC relevant terrains in Asiago. Middle and long WREs were also our selection races for WOC...
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Venla and Jukola relays - back to the podium!
The preceding two weeks before the Venla relay had been all but good for me. My back had been really bad and caused huge problems to me, affecting my performances in Italy and Norway a great deal....
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Sierre-Zinal
Sierre-Zinal also known as “la Course des Cinq 4000” or the Race of the Five 4000m peaks, is considered to be one of the finest mountain races in the world. Or as an American mountain runner put it:...
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Lidingöloppet
Lidingöloppet, the greatest cross country run in the world, is definitively worth a blog text. It’s a very special event because of its large scale but still incredibly friendly atmosphere. 30km long...
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Finnish Ultra Long Championships
Finnish Ultra Long Championships were held in tough and challenging terrain of Kytäjä, partly the same terrain as in Jukola 2010. I was doubtful whether to go there or not but after recovering from...
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Athens Marathon - The Authentic
A week ago I did something historic. I followed the footsteps of a legendary Greek messenger Pheidippides who, according to an ancient legend, ran the stretch from Marathon to Athens to deliver the...
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Season summary and future prospects
Summarising the season it was difficult and not what I expected but still one of the bests in a way since I gained my best ever World Cup placing, being 6th in the World Cup long distance in Spain....
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Winter survival strategies
1. Stay indoorsSo back in Scandinavia and facing winter again. Oh yeah. Not an easy task after spending a few years in mild climate in England. You may have wondered why I’ve been silent for a few...
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Break between the training camps
As I wrote earlier winter has been hard to me and I’ve had difficulties to adapt after spending a few years in warmer latitudes. So it was good to have a short getaway just when I started to feel the...
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Sheep and stonewalls
It has taken its time to recover from a 12 day long training camp in Slovenia and Croatia but now that I’ve overcome the worst exhaustion I’m finally able to write a few lines about it. It was my first...
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