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Svenska nyheter som circulerar med översättning och allt på mina australiensiska vänners facebook.

Tänkte att ni kanske ville höra hur det gick?
Svaret är.....Fantastiskt bra!
Låg på mellan 4.50-5.05min per km och ben, knän och fokus var på topp de första 15. Och de enda 15 =((

För sedan vart det en cyklon med tornado regn som svepte över brisbane. Det blåste upp, började ösregna och hagla som aldrig förr. Blixtra och dundra och vägarna översvämmades. Under en sträcka på 40m hade jag vatten upp till knäna. Folk låg skadade utmed vägarna och de fick kalla in extra förstärkning av sjukvårdspersonal innan  halvmaran tillslut avslutatdes då en man blev träffad av ett träd. 
Vindarna nådde tydligen upp emot 100km/h enligt news.com.au

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/queensland/tree-strikes-twilight-run-competitor-as-huge-storm-lashes-southeast/story-fndo4ckr-1226605048033 

 

Så. Safety first. Sjukt besviken att inte få avsluta när allt kändes så bra men självklart rätt beslut (även om det förmodligen skulle tagits tidigare då eventet fortsatte ca 20min in i stormen, eller tills dess att någon skadades allvarligt). Nu hoppas vi att mannen som skadades klarar sig utan allvarliga men.

Yesterday, my friend and workmate James officially earned his Dr title, which my supervisor thought was worth celebrating with a bit of champange. So she went to buy 6 bottles for our lab of like 10....

So at 2pm, everyone was happily tipsy and I still had work to finish off. Lovely afternoon. Straight home when work finally finished, shower, food and continued to a german bar to celebrate a friends citezenship w combined goodbye drinks for two friends leaving to Perth. 
Woke up slightly hangover...

Went to work on a saturday.

Went for an ocean swim water prac with Danny to Redcliff.
On the way home, Danny says. Oh, btw, I have an entry to the Brisbane Twilight run tomw. Its half a marathon but I can't run cuz I'm working so I thought you could race for me.

Sure.
Oh, wait, did I say that? I've never run further than 16kms in my life.
So now I have an entry for a half marathon cat: male 30-39 at 5pm tomw.
Wish me good luck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnr19fc7zsA

 

This movie cracks me up! Watch it!
3 months ago, I used to be like her. Now. I am exactly like him!
How I love my little friend! <3

 

Went up to Mooloolaba this weekend to support my fellow southbankers in the second biggest triathlon in QLD. Unfortunately the race was sold out well before I even started with triathlon so I could only support and hold the camera. However, the event boosted my little triathlon brain with happiness and on the way back, my friend Danny feeded me with reasons as to why I should sign up for my first olympic. He even entered all my information for the registration of Byron bay olympic so all I had to do was to click "pay". Too easy. Way too easy!

SHIT WHAT HAVE I DONE!??
Well. Simply. I entered two races in less than 5 min.

7th of April: Redcliff halv olympic

11th of May: Byron Bay olympic WITH OCEAN SWIM! (shit)

Challenge is ON!

 

Also, not racing means that you hold the camera. So here are some pics from a freakin hot triathlon:

 

I haven't been sick since I last visited Sweden in June 2012. Pretty crap timing to catch a stubborn fever 2 days before my second triathlon. However, luckily....it was only a fever.... I killed it as much as I could with various type of fever reducing pills and panodoils. 38.5 the night before the race...Down to 37.5 on race day. The problem with registering for a tri is that you don't get your money back if you don't participate. (I know, that is a terrible reason for racing while being sick) but I did. And despite the fever I felt ok on the day.

We had stayed the night in Tweed (NSW) so the drive to Kingscliff would only be 20 min, rather than 2hrs. Still had to get up at 4am and prepare transition. I only did the sprint distance, which was 940m swim (was meant to be 750, they seem to always get that wrong!), 20km bike and 5km run. Considering the circumstances, I suppose I did alright:

Time total: 1.30.18
Placement in my age group: 7 out of 17 (number 5 and 6 got in 20-30s before me, gaaahhhh!)
Placement female sprint: 23 out of 185
Swim 940m: 21.30 (against the current) Which was annoying saying everyone had told me the swim in kingscliff is always with the current. Well...it was for everyone who started 30min after us. Thanks tides!!
Bike: 43.32 (including T1 and T2 I suppose)
Run: 25.13

Gotta be happy with that!

If I happened to be caught on any pic, I will upload some when they are released!

 

Less happy am I about the fact that my very beloved friend Annabel has got a position in Sydney, which all happened very quickly, and has now moved there for work. It's so rarely you find someone so similar to yourself. Will miss you hun! Trips will be booked asap to Sydney, horseback riding adventures and triathlons interstate! xx

Time for me to make it into work for the first day in 4 days after my long fever weekend. Not looking forward to that!

 

Just some more photos from the last event (better upload them now before the next event thats on this weekend). Happy winners of the club champ.

SO OVER THE RAIN!

Regn regn regn. Alla mina träningskläder är blöta och torkar aldrig. Inte ens någon ide att torka något för allt blir blött på en gång. Baksidan är övervuxen, poolen översvämmad och igår fick jag bygga ett drainings system för gången/garaget på baksidan av huset som hade fyllt upp med vatten ca 10cm. Värst av allt. Det går inte att träningscykla i detta väder! GRRRR! Det går inte att planera över huvud taget.