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I started this blog when I first went on an exchange to Brisbane, Australia. During that experience, I discovered my love for culture, travelling and adventures. This blog has followed me since and been my forum for pictures and stories from Tanzania, South Africa, Ireland, Fiji, Malaysia, Singapore, Europe etc.

LADIES IN LYCRA

Publicerad 2013-05-26 12:24:55 i Allmänt,

Woot! Finally went for my first ride with the Ladies in Lycra, after one week of sickess and flu. Soooo nice to hit the road again! I also tried out my leg on a 2km run and its not holding up. Its killing me not being able to run. Running club is my fav mornings to wake up to and I can't come to them. Crying inside! Boo...
 
Otherwise its been quite a relaxing weekend. Brought Zelda to the markets on Saturday for coffee in the grass. She was hillarious! App staffys do this singing thing, which I hadnt heard too much of before then. But sitting down in the grass, listening to the live music they always play there, she was growling and singning and crying soo loud that people looked around to see where the noise came from. Everyone was cracking up lauging when they saw this excited little pup wagging her tail to all the attention she got. It was almost embarrasing but couldn't do anything else than laughing. Will bring her next week as well andsee if I can get a movie =)

Next week might be the last week of animal work at lab for me in a LONG time as I then will have collected most of my data for the second part of my PhD. As much as I love my little ratties, I am SO happy to get a break from that and start to write up a bit an analyze data. 
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RAT BITTEN

Publicerad 2013-05-22 11:34:54 i Allmänt,

Wow, after being bed bound with man-flu and all for 4 days, I head back to work, only to get bitten by an upset lab rat! No offense, I totaly understand that he might be a bit upset after just getting a 3cm needle stuck in his abdomen with happy drugs. He, E.33.9, was half nibbling on my finger while the anaesthetics started to set in, and all of a sudden aggressively attacked it. Poor fella, he must have been quite confused. Anyway, it resulted in 2 hours of filling out work related injury forms, collecting signatures and then 1.5hrs at the uni doctor to get a tetanus boost. So now I should be covered for another 10 years. Convinient! 
 
Zelda has settled in nicely and just forced me to cuddle her for an entire movie. What do people do if not training? It's killing me not having been out on my bike for a whole week now! Gaaah! This cough better get better soon cause I cant stand another sleep in or another movie...
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ZELDA

Publicerad 2013-05-21 11:04:53 i Allmänt,

From one family member to another. This is Zelda. She's a 7yo adorable Brittish Staffy pup and our new housemate. Coopie is ofcourse irreplacable but she's a very good substitute. She makes the funniest noises and smiles and eats one tennis ball a day. An extremely well behaved staffy and her dad Mark has replaced Simon who suddendly decided to move out and find his own place. Mark is really into training, triathlon and crossfit so I think we found a good replacement.

Im slowly starting to recover from my flu as well. Managed to get in to work this morning to do some experiments that had to be done. Also, during that short period of time I managed to get bitten by a rat. I know I should report things like that but I was soo tired and just wanted to go back to bed, and I had forgotten my injurance card at home and just the thought of going back home and then back to uni was too much for mu feverish brain. If it's not looking good tomw, I guess I'll have to go and get a tetanus shot. Damn rat...=(
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MAN FLU

Publicerad 2013-05-20 11:31:08 i Allmänt,

Buhuu, värsta man-influensa någonsin!

Vart lite halvkrasslig under Fredagen så jobbade hemifrån. Lördag, inte värre än att jag kunde ta mig till marknaden. Söndag, completely out of it! Låg i sängen från morgon till kväll och visste varken vilken dag eller tid på dygnet det var. I sådana här stunder behöver man vara hemma hos päronen och ligga i sjuk soffan.
Blä!
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BYRON BAY OLYMPIC DISTANCE

Publicerad 2013-05-12 23:51:01 i Allmänt,

(1165 seems to be a bit of a theme here...)
End of Season. At least in Queensland. Next race on the list is Kalmar Mini tri in August, which I am really looking forward to. However it's good its a while a way so my knees have time to recover. Was taped up properly and my left itb did not cause me any harm in the race. However I must have been compensating because 7.5km into the run I could feel my right itb starting to play up instead. Always something.
(Tired em, last lap on the run course)
The start for F25-29 was at 12.17pm. It is very unsual that a race starts after sort of 8am in the morning so we had a nice little sleep in before. The water conditions were Rough! First of all, there were too many people in the water at the same time and the swell was big and the waves were not easy to try and breath through. A lot of people actually got sea sick as the waves were pushing us around so much, especially coming in. And. Believe it or not, the swim was 400m longer than it was meant to be. I wonder how this happens in every single race, why is it that the swim can never be shorter rather than longer?? Not fair!
The bike leg was amazing! Although the roads were horribly bad at some points, it was a beautiful ride and I went so fast with Sunshine!
Got a bit of my unusual asthma during the run and struggled a bit. The run consisted of 4 laps and it had been pissing down the whole morning (as it always does on race days) and parts of it looked more like the tough mudder race than a tri. But it was fun!
 
Here is my time summary for my first ever olympic distance:
Swim (1850m) (meant to be 1500) - 34.12min (includes first transition) Cat pos. 37 of 60
Bike (40km) - 1.08.56 (includes second transition), average speed 34.82km/hr, Cat pos. 8 of 60
Run (10km) - 50.09, average pace 5.01min/km Cat pos. 28 of 60
TOTAL TIME: 2.33.18
Cat position (F25-29) - 20 of 60 WOOT!
Gender position (all females): 80 of 235
Overall position (out of all finishers): 481 of 894

I am very pleased with my first ever triathlon season. In all my races (including runs and half marathons), I have always been top 20 in my age group, (and even won my first ever 7.5km trail run out of all females). Can't wait for my knees to recover and for the next season to start!
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TIME HAS COME

Publicerad 2013-05-10 08:36:09 i Allmänt,

Look at those wheels!!!!! The whole bike is just screaming AERO! I Want to move fast! And we will. My friend Terry came around earlier today to pop those wheels on that I borrowed from a friend. And although both of us were late for work, we just could not stop looking. 
Anyway. The time has come. For me to participate in my first ever Olympic triathlon (=1500swim, 40km ride, 10km run). Physio has taped me up as below and hopefully that will keep my knee and itb in the right position. No matter what, I can still enjoy the swim and the ride and the beautiful surroundings of Byron Bay!
Taped up and ready to rock! Woot!
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NISSAN COPORATE TRI

Publicerad 2013-05-05 11:28:15 i Allmänt,

Just for the record, because I am a tiny bit proud.

My official time for Noosa half marathon was
1.46.14
Cat position (F25-29): 21out of 82
Gender position: 118 out of 550
Overall position: 418 of 1117
 
In addition to that, I filled a place in the Nissan team triathlon down at the gold coast this weekend as Jess's law firm needed a girl for their team. I hadnät been doing any training as my itb injury started to bother me for the first time in like 10 years time after the half. But it didnt hurt anymore so I thought I would be ok as it was only a sprint. 
Those team events works as such, everyone in the team (consisting of 3 people) does everything. So person one starts to swim, ride, run, and then person two starts with swim, ride, run etc. I started as number three and swim went alright. Bike was AMAZING! Sunshine was soooo incredibly fast and it was so much easier to be on a bike like that than my old one. Transition was obviously easier as well as you dont have to work as hard to move forward. And then the run. Exactly 780m into the 4km run, itb starts to play up and I'm running in pain the last 3 kms=(

Anyway. Our team came 15th of 88 and my personal times were:
Swim 400m:9.02
Ride 19km:18.41
Run 4km:19.29
Total (transition included) 49.38
 
Anyway. I'm not very happy about any of that right now as all I want is to get my itb sorted. I know the only thing that will solve it is not to run. But I have Byron bay triathlon (last tri of the season) coming up next saturday so now I've icepacked it up. Just went to coles to buy lots of cooling gel, voltaren gel and ibruprofen. Also have a physio appointment for wed and fri so I can get taped up to reduce the impact. No running until then. Certainly no running for the 2 months after byron. Im sooooo sad =((((
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FIRST LITTLE RIDE

Publicerad 2013-05-01 23:11:00 i Allmänt,

After a proper bike fit, with every angle or my body position measured, Sunshine has now moved in with me. And what can I say, I am stoked!!!!
Went for a corso effort this morning (corso=name of the road, its fairly flat and no traffic lights and hardly no cars, so cyclists just go down and do a few loops every now and then to work on speed). This bike is icredible! It's like it Wants to move forward, rather than just staying at the same place, as my other bike (Bluberry) (yes I do name my bikes, I also name my friends bike in case they haven't named them already). For example, I namned Toby's two bikes Chaplin (as it is of the brand Cervelio) and Punda Milia (as it is black and white and punda milia means zebra in swahili).
Anyway. I'm superhappy with my new bike and can't wait for the last triathlon of the season in two weeks time, which also is my first olympic distance. Bring it on!
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Flying high but staying grounded. Travelling, adventures, exploring and adrenaline is my life. I write about places most people want to visit but never do; and about my triathlon lifestyle. I live after: The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.

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