February 10th, 2008
I’ve expressed my frustration with the Nike+iPod system before, listing both shortcomings and improvement ideas. After declaring my marathon goal I have become even more aware of those shortcomings, and those frustrations topped Sunday last week when I ran a new personal best in a 10 km race. After the race my iPod, which I had calibrated just the week before, said I had run 9.47 km. That’s a 5% deviation.
Having wanted a Garmin Forerunner 305 for a while I finally decided to just buy it. I had just learned that my next bonus would be quite reasonable, and my birthday is just next month. Of course, it was only after talking to my mom a couple of days later I realized how stupid it was to buy something off my wishlist this close to my birthday.
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February 4th, 2008
Yesterday I ran the Sparta Marathon Test 1. A 10 km race in and around Fælledparken in Copenahgen. As with the Marathon Start Op race in October my goal was to run the 10 km in 45 minutes. A goal I feel short of last time, finishing with a time of 46’24” (which was still a personal best by-the-way). This time, however, I felt better prepared, even if the run was at 9:30 on a frosty February morning.
I felt really good throughout the race, and although I had periods where it was hard going, I did have energy to sprint the last 100 meters or so. So, what time did I reach? Well, I’ll tell you, I crossed the line in 45 minutes 3 seconds!!
Although I missed my goal by a measly 3 seconds, I am still very happy with that result. Of course, I am now setting my sights higher for my next 10 km, but I don’t think that will be until the autumn. In the meantime my next focus is Marathon Test 2 which is 15 km, a couple of half marathons, and of course the marathon in May.
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January 19th, 2008
Reading my comics today sluggy freelance had a filler comic by Erica Henderson. Browsing around on her blog I noticed she had taken several nerd tests. Of course I couldn’t help taking them also.
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January 3rd, 2008
We are very fortunate with where we live. We have forests a mere stone throw away in almost all directions. Another fortunate factor, for me, is that there are mountain bike routes in several of these forests.
Yesterday, I took a ride on the blue trail in Rude Skov which really rekindled my love of cross country mountain biking.
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January 1st, 2008
Wipe your feet before entering.
I hope you all had a wonderful New Years Eve. We had five friends over for a nice Asian inspired fusion dinner. The night simply flew away and we ended up going to bed after 4 am. Needless to say I feel a bit tired right now.
Today marks the beginning of one of my first photography projects: A Year In My Life.
Today will also be the day of my first run of 2008. This will be my 99th run with the Nike+iPod kit. After more than two weeks of downtime due to an infection in my leg, I am now ready to get back to my training for Copenhagen Marathon in May.
I don’t know what else today will bring, but I will get out there and find out.
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January 1st, 2008
In 2008 I will try something new: documenting myself each day. I will do this by taking a self portrait each day and posting it to my A year in my life – 2008 set.
I have seen several people create so-called 365 day projects”. The first was Matt Haughey whose goal was simply to take a picture each day. Matt has since embarked on a much more ambitious project. On flickr I have seen several people partake in “365 day projects:http://www.flickr.com/groups/365days/ where they take a self portrait each day. However, it took my discovery of the ever awesome macaddict, who is already on his second 365 days, to get my inspirational juices flowing.
Since 2008 is a leap year, and I wanted to cronicle the year, I couldn’t really make a 365 day project. Therefore, my 366 day project is named A year in my life, and started today with the first day of 2008.
The rules I have set up for myself are very simple. I take one self portrait each day and upload it to flickr. The picture must be a self portrait, and it must be taken on the day it is uploaded. I am sure I will end up bending the rules when I forget or feel too busy, and maybe there will be some pictures in there taken with the crappy camera in my mobile phone, but the aim is to have uploaded 366 self portraits when 2008 gives way to 2009.
This entry marks the public beginning of my project.
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December 6th, 2007
Today is one of those days where Susan works late. Since I left work late, I thought I’d pop by and pick her up. In the train on the way home she was reading a free horse magazine, and as we were waiting to get off she showed me a picture of a Llama. Then the conversation went something like this:
Susan: Llama, llama, llama, duck
Me: You can’t have a llama
S: A duck is probably also more tasty
M: I don’t know I’ve never tasted llama
Stranger standing behind us: I have, and it is very tasty. Alpaca, however, is quite dry
So now you know.
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December 1st, 2007
Last week marked my first visit to Finland. Working for Nokia I – of course – expected this to happen sometime, I just had not foreseen that it would take more than two years before my first visit.
My visit was to the northern Finnish city of Oulu. Oulu is about 600 km from Helsinki, and only 200 km from the Polar Circle. This is very clear since the sun rises after 9 in the morning, and goes down already at a quarter to 3 in the afternoon.
I don’t know what my expectations were from Finland, but below are my impressions and thoughts on my few days in Oulu.
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November 9th, 2007
Update: Here, just two days later we got a good first dusting. It’s only a couple of centimeters, but it is covering everything:
Susan and I had been in town, and when we got off the bus at home it was snowing. It didn’t stay on the ground, but it was definitely snow. And as we were walking from the bus stop it started hailing too. The weather has really turned from the beautiful autumn days of September and October.
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November 4th, 2007
Recently I noticed problems with several of my shoes. The sole of the shoes I use pretty much every day suddenly started crumbling. I really haven’t seen anything like this before and couldn’t believe that the sole of a pair of shoes could disintegrate like that.
Around the same time I noticed that the heel of my climbing shoes was very loose. When I did heel hooks I sometimes pulled off the shoe, and at the very least I couldn’t pull very well with the heel.
Of course this meant that I had to get a new pair of shoes to use for everyday use, and a new pair of climbing shoes.
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