I MADE IT!!!

Today I gave away my key to my successor and today I finished my run home. Sorry for not updating a lot lately, but I've been so busy that I had to prioritize the running and not the updates itself!

88 days and 681km is the result this spring and it's just a sign that sometimes can crazy ideas help you on the way achiving something. The only prove I have for you that I actually managed this would be my words and the fact that I'm actually skinnier than 3 months ago. For me this was all about being able to get fit again and prove to myself that I'm still a bit sporty. So right now I've started to think what I should do next. It would be a bit stupid to just stop running now when I'm in this shape. Anyone that want to join me for New York or London Marathon in 2008? That would for sure make me/you continue/start running again.

My formal AIESEC career is now over, so now it's back to school and work in the NGO MOT. After two intense and amazing years in the Norwegian MC I also look forward to the new life again!

Even closer to home! (Trondheim)

Despite a lot of travelling, I've managed to keep up my running pretty good the last weeks. Though it has resulted in some pretty extreme distances to catch up with a lot of lost days due to travelling and my sisters wedding. But after my running today I reached the biggest milestone on my way home. I managed to "arrive" Trondheim after 65 days and nearly 500km of running. My legs are starting to feel the pain now, but now I'm not giving up no matter what.

Trondheim was my second home for 2 years, when I was a student at TØH, in a couple of months you'll again find me in Trondheim when I'm going to finish my study and in the same time work for MOT.

I hope to manage to post a couple of postings before I arrive home in 23 days!:)

I'm half way!

The last couple of weeks has involved road trip with some friends and a lot of traveling around in Norway. This has given me some challenges when it comes to running, but this week has been good with a good opportunities to run both in Trondheim and at home this weekend. After running 81km this I've been running 51% of the distance.

On the map I'm now out of one of the most boring valleys in Norway (when it comes to driving and things to see when you're travelling through it), and I'm not heading towards Trøndelag. For those of you that are known in the area I've just passed Tynset on my way passing the mountain area Kvikne. So now it's only 150km to Trondheim.

One more update..

The last weeks I've also managed to keep my running schedule up pretty good, so looking at my little tracking sheet I am on the spot according to it. Though during the last days, my right knee has started to get ill, so I'm not able to run 100% on it at the moment. But I've never thought about ending the whole thing, so I've allowed myself to use my bike on my way home. Though to not make it easier, I will not meassure the distance I bike, but use the average time per kilometer as I did with my running. So 60min biking will be 10km running. Since the overall objective of my run was to get fit the, I don't see a problem to bike instead, though I will start to run as soon as my knee is good again.

According to the map I'm currently "running" in a pretty boring part of Norway, so it's not really that many things to mention, but I just passed a place called Koppang and I'm now having a rest at a place called Hanestad for those that are really well known in the area. The distance from Oslo is now 263 km. This means only 416km left...

Even further north...(passing the place where I started to grow up as a person!)

Even with some tired legs I'm now closer to home and even more ahead of schedule, but with a lot of travelling in front of me, I still need to be focused to be able to get home in time. At the last update I just passed Elverum, and I'm now heading up Østerdalen ("The Eastern valley"), in this valley you'll find the longest river in Norway, Glomma (That probably tells that this valley is pretty long:) 27% of the distance is now done (184km), though still there's 495km left. Yesterday I did one of my longest runs in my entire life, putting down 23km. This is even for crazy me an insane distance, but sometimes you just feel that you can run like Forrest Gump. In these moments you just feel that you can run longer and faster than everyone. This is a feeling I wish that everyone could have.

At 174km I passed a small village called Rena, this place is known for two things:

1. It's hosting the most popular and known Long distance Cross Country skiing race in Norway called Birkebeineren.
2. One of the biggest army camps in Norway are based here, a camp where I personally spent a bit more than one year of my life, a year I still consider the year in my life where I developed the most.

I started in the army when I was turning 19 years old, and as a boy living at home the whole life this was a huge change. Sharing room with 5 other guys and pushing myself (being pushed) over the limits I had both mentally and physically by far. After a period of general solider education we were going to be selected into the positions we should have the rest of the year. At that time I was probably in my best physical shape ever, so I sort of expected that I would become one of these soldiers that had to run the longest and carry the heaviest guns. But luckily I got the opportunity that I wanted, to become a tank driver. So the rest of the year I was driving around in the forest, controlling a vehicle of 26 tons, with 10 other guys in the back that had to run out every time there was a man to man fight happening. If you want to know more about my year in the army feel free to approach me about it! (General guys that have been in the army like to talk about it!:)

Stay tuned for the next update about my progress up north!

Update on my "journey back home"

Some days ago I started to post about my running challenge I started on in the middle of April. And now it's time to give an update. But after some thoughts I realized that most of the people "following" my trip are probably not 100% familiar with the Norwegian geography, so I'm going to try to talk a bit about some of the places I'm passing.

After a short one more run today, the schedule is going perfect, and I'm actually now ahead of it. So after 19 days I've now passed 148km, and that means almost 22% of the overall distance.

According to the map, I "passed" a middle size city (Norwegian standard) called Elverum some 10km ago. This city is known for a couple of things; First of all because it's probably the city symbolizing the foresrty and forest industry we have here in Norway, by the Norwegian Forest Museum. In the same time Elverum have a big army camp and when you're driving through Elverum by car you'll always pass the "famous" motel Elgstua (the Moose house!!), with a moose sculpture on the outside. Personally I've spent several days at Elverum during my time in the army, and partying at some of the local bars, since my main camp was situated some time outside of Elverum, at a place called Rena that I'll come back to at the next "report"

Running home

I was sitting for myself some time back asking myself, why don't I manage to keep up my work out schedule. I start and suddenly it stops again. And I asked myself what do I need to do to keep it up. Together with some friends we started Get Fit 2007, though I'm not 100% satisifed with my outcome there. So I came up with even one more idea. I did it some time back, but I didn't wanna tell anything about it before I felt it started to work well.

The idea is simple, I'm going to "run home" to my parents house in Namsos, before I'm ending my term in AIESEC Norway 15th of July. This means 679,4 km, and since I started 19th of April it means 88 days with an average of 7,72km pr day. Below you'll find the


So what's the status?
It started good, though last week with Scandinavian Chillout in Sweden and a bad injury from a basketbal match, I lost a couple of running days this week, but now I'm back on track and I've put down 97km, that gives me an average of 7,87km for the remaining days. According to the map I've just passed a place called Espa not that far from one of the olympic cities Hamar.
More updates will come, on my way up north!