Feeling mighty pleased with myself!

Today was the day; time for the warm-up race before the big one in a few weeks.  It didn’t start that well as I broke my (my sisters, since I forgot to pack one of mine) water bottle on the ride to the starting point! The lid broke off so I couldn’t close it, and without a bottle holder I couldn’t transport it in that stage with actual water in it.As promised, here is a before picture, looking perky if I can say so myself; It didn’t take long into the race before I remembered one of the major differences between Göteborg and Malmö where I live, is the hills. Malmö is pretty flat, Göteborg isn’t! It was also pretty windy today, which didn’t help much and I was seriously questioning what I was doing. I did stick in there, with radio in my ears (bad sound since I forgot to pack my headphones as well) I biked on forcing myself to not read the start times of the people who passed me.

Almost half-way the first depot stop appeared and it was well met, without any water to drink during the first 25k’s and a strong gazing sun, I was thirsty and hungry. I went straight for the water, bananas and the yummy bun. Here my brother in-law also caught up with me, yes he did make it even if he was sick during the past week. His bike was much better than mine (my sisters, and I swear that the bike added 20 minutes to my ride today) so of course he caught up with me. Who looks better?

I did manage to complete the full 50k, and feel pretty good with myself. Based on the after picture I would say that I have more to give, and the 100k in a couple of weeks should be no issue at all!They were also kind enough to provide us with food once we finished, and I chewed some down, not too much though as we were going for Mothers Day dinner pretty much straight after.It was fun, I am pleased and proud, and seriously the in-law did hell of a race! kudos to him. The only thing is that the collection is going a bit slow, not anyone’s fault than me and my sisters. So I figured that if we manage to collect another 5000sek before the 8th of June I will bike the 100k dressed up in…you guy’s decide. Give me some suggestions, we post a poll, and donate! That way you get to see me on a bike in your choice of outfit, deal? 

Race Number

Yesterday I managed to go and fetch my race number for this Sundays race, I was also a very nice sister in-law and picked up my sisters hubbie’s number. However, he is a tad bit sick at the moment, and we all know that sick men are totally incapable of doing anything really, so lets see if he will make it on Sunday.If you happen to be in the Göteborg area this Sunday, and somewhere around the area where we bike, and happen to see number 1574, you are more than welcome to cheer me on!

Radio silence over!

It’s been very quiet in here, that is my fault. This spring has been spent travelling, first a month down-under to visit old friends, and then I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Thailand. Now the travelling is over, for now, I need to find a job and settle back down in every-day-life, an every-day-life without the dad in it.

Yesterday I took the train to Gothenburg to visit the family for an extended weekend as well as celebrate mother’s day on Sunday. I also have a little warm-up race before the big 100k we are doing in June. So before going out for mother’s day’s dinner I will bike 50k and am really looking forward to getting out in the tracks.

You see, when one doesn’t have a job to go to during the days, it’s very easy to get a tad lazy. I’m guessing that I’m in real bad shape and this race will show me just how bad, and I’m hoping that it will be the eye-opener that I need to get better at working out, to make sure that I will be able to complete the 100k’s that are not that far in the future.

I hope I also will be better at looking after this blog! I will make sure to give you pictures from the race, at least a before and after picture!