Relay race

Did a relay race yesterday. SKJALG started with three teams, and I had the the third stage for the youth team. Wasn't too exited running for the youth team since that meant doing a 470m sprint stage totally alone. The other seniors where already leading by at least 350m. One thing is I didn't show my back to anyone, another thing is I didn't even see anyone's back! I did OK though. Doing another one Tuesday, and hoping for some better composed teams then. It's pretty tough to do your best when your body hurts and you're only racing against yourselves.

Great customer service

I recently published a story regarding a bad experience with some tights purchased from an online store.

The store just agreed to give me a total refund of the amount without me sending the tights back.

That's not bad!

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy

ESWT - Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy . Having a shock wave of four bars to an already acking achilles tendon (tendonitis) does not neceserally strike you as a very good idea, but I mean to tell you. It works! (And hurts a little)

The discovery of the beneficial effects of ESWT came as German researchers were trying to determine what type of high-pressure pulses could be sent through the body to disintegrate kidney stones without causing harm to surrounding tissue. In laboratory animals and humans, it was discovered (with some surprise) that surrounding tissue would often heal back stronger.

If you have a chronic achilles tendonitis, tennis elbow etc. you should defiantly give this a shot. I feel much better after only one session.

It's a small world indeed!

Some time ago, I'd say around September last year, I caught wind of the fact that filtersweep and his wife were moving to Stavanger. I contacted them while they where still living in the U.S. and we e-mailed each other maybe a few times before they moved. And what do you know? They ended up living just a block away from my place. What's the odds of that? It's a small world

Well. Just minutes ago. My cousin called me to say he'd visited some friends he met in the States who just recently moved to my neighborhood. They came to talk about bicycling, my name came up. and............

It's a small world indeed

'Vomit training' has started

....and so also the risks of injuries. It's always been the same. When I start doing track and spikes early season. A lot of those timed 85% intervals would probably do just as good with sneakers instead of spikes causing Achilles tendinitis, like yesterdays work out did. This period is, for me, the most important period and any kind of injuries' a bit of a draw back.

Seems to me I'll have to step over Wednesday's track meet and rather focus on some later events instead. Let's see what my two trusted friends Voltaren Emulgel and Felden (Piroxicam) together with some eccentric exercise can do first.