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GAAAAHHHHH! I've had a week when things have really been going my way. Please don't let it stop!

Sunday: New PB (personal best) for tri sprint distance by 5 min

Monday: Past MidCandidature with excellence

Wednesday: MY FIRST PAPER AS A FIRST AUTHOS GOT ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION!!!!!!!
For all non-science people out there, this may not seem very exciting, but believe me. IT IS! Getting a paper published is a never-ending process. You work your ass off for two years to create data of sufficiant quality. Most of the things along the way goes wrong and you have to re do it. You spend half a year trying to get your supervisor to read what you have done. She finally says, 'lets rewrite it this way'. You rewrite it. You submit it to a journal with too high impact factor and the reviewers takes 2 months to say "no, we do not want to publish this". You rewrite the whole manuscript to make it fit another journal and submit it again. The reviewers takes 3 months to say "yes, we will publish this, IF you can do the following experiments XXX which means another 5 years of work worth 1millionAUD". 'Third time lucky', Karen told me, and I rewrote the manuscript again and send it in for the third time. This time, after only a short month, the editor wrote back and said "YES WE WANT TO PUBLISH THIS PRETTY MUCH IN THE FORM IT IS". Just to give you an idea how happy I am...

 

But it doesn't end there...

 

Thursday: Something just made sense in the pool at squad training last night "poletten föll ner" as we say in Swedish and I all of a sudden started to swim 100m in 1.45, 1.44, 1.43(!!!!!), instead of my normal 1.50-1.57min. Not fast for some but fast for me.

 

In my moment of feeling invincible, I signed up for a sprint distance on Bribie on sunday, a fundarasing 5km fun run on thursday in two weeks and now i'm sitting here contemplating with myself wheter I should sign up for the half ironman in the middle of superhot Australia in Feb (Hell of the west).

 

Just realized I haven't posted many photos of the West End (best end) surroundings, so during y Monday recovery morning walk with Zelda, I brought my camera to snap some shots of the beautiful purple jaccaranda trees which are now in season. This is my old street before I moved to the street next to it =)

First triathlon since I got back done and dusted. It was the second time I did this course and I improved my time from 1.03 to 57.48, so that was very exciting!

Last week, I did for me two life-changing investments.

1. I bought a GPS for my car so that I no longer have to get lost every single time I go for a drive. It is very exciting and will most likely save me a lot of fuel money for driving around trying to find my way back =)
   
   
2. I bought a YONANA and I cannot express in words what a wonderful kitchen machine this is. I think every household should own one. (Have they made their way to Sweden yet?? If not, this one will move home with me). A yonana makes ice cream out of frozen fruit and it is so delicious! So far, I've only tried with frozen berries, bananas and pinapples, but it can do anything! Just peel and chop the fruit and freeze it for at least 20hrs, then you just put it in the yonana and out comes delicious ice-cream like fruit sorbet. Gaahhh! Yonana, where have you been all my life!? Can even put frozen nuts and chocolate etc to make it more desert like. (I sound like a salesman now but I'm just so in love with this!).

 

Nu kommer alla bilder i oordning här men det får ni stå ut med=) Eftersom att drottningen återigen fyllde år fick vi en public holiday, vilket utnyttjades till fullo med en campervan-trip söderut. Turen gick från Brisbane-ByronBay (sov en natt där)-Yamba-Coffs Harbour (sov en natt där), sedan tillbaka till Byron bay (en natt till) för att tidigt på tisdags morgonen gå upp o springa på stranden och sedan köra tillaka till brisbane. Här kommer som sagt lite bilder som ska få er sugna att KOMMA NER OCH HÄLSA PÅ!
Ovan: Mitt resesällskap Guilly på sin nya surfbräda.

Veckorna kommer och går och likaså gör mina tandläkarbesök. Idag har jag fått påbörja min fjärde dos av antibiotika. Detta elände verkar aldrig ta slut. Min fjärde stackars tand av visdom är det aldrig någon som får peta på!

 

Veckan som var bestod av en rad festligheter under helgen. Tex hade Nikki och Tracy från klubben en kombinerad inflyttnings-födelsedags firande på toppen av ett höghus. Såhär fina var vi då och alla fick skåla i champange utom jag eftersom min antibiotika inte tillåter detta (kanske är en bra ursäkt).

Oj, nu har det verkligen stått stilla på blogg-sidan. Jag får försöka komma i fatt. Egentligen borde jag väl börja med Tyskland då eftersom att jag hade en mellanlandning med konferanser där, men de bilderna har jag på jobbet så nu hamnar allt i oordning. =)

Har nyss vart på mitt första simpass på två månader, (Simmade 3300m, woot!) och helt död är jag nu. Träffade även på min vän Mango vid poolen idag:

I started to write about my holidays a while ago but I never got around to post it and now it has almost reached an end so instead of writing a long boring novel, let's make a picture update:

I've had a pretty crazy training week with lots of new PBs (personal best) in both distance and time. 

For example, (PB1) I swam 3300m (in a 25m pool!) in one session (total 8300m over 3 days), resulting in dead arms and sore shoulders, in a good way. Best 100m in a 25 pool (PB2) was 1.33min!
PB3 was achieved today at park run, after not running a solid 5km in 3 weeks, I smashed it on 22.31, placing 6 out of 109F, (42 overall out of 258) and 2nd in my age group.

I also got convinced to sign up for a duathlon (only run and bike) the Sunday before my Eurotrip. So now I'm very happy to have a race to look forward to. And speaking of Eurotrip, its only 13 breakfasts left!

Sometimes, when translating word by word from swedish to english, things sort of looses its meaning. I love expressions like that though and have collected them for a little while.
Here are some of my favourites:

Träsmak i ändan word by word becomes Wood taste in the bum.
We use it when we have been sitting down for too long, eg. Oh, I have to get up, I'm starting to get wood taste in my bum! Funny!

 

Jordgubbar (=strawberries) but becomes little earthmen when translating word by word.

Visa framfötterna becomes Show your front feet
Used when showing of ones talent, eg at work, Get up there and show your front feet!

 

För allt smör i Småland (=for all the butter in Småland (a Swedish district)) is used when there is something you wouldn't do in a million years.
Eg. I wouldn't do that for all the butter in Småland!

 

Is i magen (=ice in the stomach) means you are very calm.

 

Smaken är som baken - delad! (=taste is like a butt - divided!) 
Essentially means “Oh, it’s a matter of taste…” or “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…”

Used when something is painted with a lot of different colours for example.

 

Brun som en pepparkaksgubbe = Brown as a ginger bread man

Is what a Swede is always aiming for when travelling abroad, you HAVE to come home "as brown as a ginger bread man" otherwise people will doubt that you have been away at all.

 

Lugn som en filbunke = Calm as the bowl you cultivate yoghurt in

Is simply used to describe an extremely calm person!'

 

Bära hundhuvudet = Carry the dog's head
The person who has to carry the dog's head is the person to blame for whatever reason.

 

Håll i hatten! = Hold on to the hat!
Used for when something big or exciting is about to happen, eg. Hold on to the hat, its all happening!

 

Killen hela dagen = The boy all day

If you are the boy all day, you are simply a great boy, good at everything! Who wouldn't want to be the boy all day??

 

Hej kom och hjälp mig! = Hello come and help me!
Is used for something thats really messy, eg, your mum would have told you repeatedly, "Come and clean your room NOW, it looks like hello come and help me!"

 

Jag är inte den som är den = I am not that person who is that person
This is sort of hard to explain. I guess we normally use it as an answer eg,
-Are you coming to town or not?
-Well yeah, im not that person who is that person.
Weird...

Klart som korvspad = As clear as the left over water after boiling sausages

Is used when something is really obvious, eg, As clear as the left over water after boiling sausages, I'm coming to his party! (=Orcourse I'm coming to his party!)

Rund under fötterna = Round beneath the feet
This expression sort of explains itself. You get round underneath your feet when you are drinking too much alcoholic bevareges.

På något vänster = On something left
Essentially means "in one way or another" eg, It will be a bit tricky, but on something left we can do it!

 
Här blir det inga barn gjorda = It's not a great lot of child production going on here
Can for example be used in a too long coffe break at work, eg, its not a great lot of childproduction happening here, let's go back to work!

Grönsaker = Green things
Litterarily means vegetables

Solkatt = Sun cat
Which is a reflection created by for instance a watch on the wall. Ah, bring your arm down, your watch is creating sun cats in my eyes! haha!

Fun stuff! 
Maybe I should start to collect the english version and translate it into Swedish as well...

Imagine putting 200 tri athlets that haven't been drinking for about half a year (tri season) together in a surf club with endless bar tabs.Also, imagine 3 girls, who only owns training clothes and havent used make up in months, getting dressed up together. Well, that's what I entertained myself with last Saturday.
This was the result of the night:

 

 

SUP can mean other things than a drink in Swedish. It also refers to Stand up Paddle Boarding, which I tried for the first time on Monday. Being terrified of waves, I really enjoyed this type of surfing. It took Marc 2 minutes to explain how to get up, and up I was!