Monday, May 07, 2012 // Racing
I’ve been to two races already, Copenhagen Spring Regatta and NC-1 (Norwegian Cup), Tysvær. At both regattas I raced 200, 500 and 1000m. In Copenhagen I got 8th, 3rd and 1st. At NC-1 I won all my races. It’s many years since I last raced 200m and it’s a strange distance, impossible to get a good rythme and flow. My 1000m was good at both races and I look fwd to race against the big boys at World Cup 1 in Poznan. I belive my first 250m is better than last year, but the real test for this will be WC-1. Thanks to all the volunteers in Copenhagen and Tysvær that makes racing possible, good organizing both places. After 1 month racing and training in temperatures below 10 degrees; I’m ready for summer to kick inn!
Posted on 05/07 at 07:36 AM (UTC/GMT +1)
Friday, April 06, 2012 // Spring training
Florida was a good camp with a lot of km and hard training. I went home for six days to open the mail, pay my bills and meet family and friends. Then it was off to the Nelo Training Center in Portugal, where I’m now. I’ll be here for four weeks and going straight to my first regatta of the year: Copenhagen Spring Regatta. Portugal is great with top of the line Nelo rental kayaks, nice apartments and fantastic paddling conditions. A big change from windy and crowded (Canadian kids) Florida. It’s still cold some days, but I’ll easily pay that price to get so good paddling conditions. It’s also nice getting dinner and lunch served every day. The Russian team is here as well and it is interesting to see what kind of training they do this time of the year. They have a lot of paddling specific exercises in the gym, which I think is so good that I will put some of the exercises into my program as well. The Nelo center has two start blocks lined up and for the first time ever I do my start training in start blocks. Let’s hope it pays off!
Posted on 04/06 at 02:18 PM (UTC/GMT +1)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 // Spring camp, Florida
Nice to be back on the water! It’s been two weeks since I changed skigear for paddling gear and summer is the best:). It’s always hard when you start paddling again after a break. This year it was over two months since my last session on the water when I again arrived to Florida. First days are always strange but then you get the hang of it and I’m always happy when I again get the “flow” feeling from kayaking. This year it’s been a solid program with over 200k each week, I have one more week to go and then I’ve planned four days rest before I again hit the training hard for the last three weeks of my Florida camp. I’m going to Puerto Rico with my wife for the four days with no paddling. Never been to Caribbean, I’m sure I’ll get back rested:)
Posted on 02/21 at 04:43 PM (UTC/GMT +1)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 // Marcialonga
3 weeks in high altitude are gone. It was a great camp and I managed to do all the training as planned. I’ve done the same program on this camp for many years, because I know it works! This year I didn’t feel as tired as I was last year at the end of the camp, I think that’s a good sign. Friday afternoon I decided to race Marcialonga (70km cross country skiing race). The race was on Sunday and I was a part off Team Xtra Personell. The best long distance xc ski team in the world! I did all the final preperations with the team and was ready on the start line when my startnumber was ripped off my body from the organizers. 2min later I watched the start from the side…The number I got from Team Xtra was in another persons name and team xtra wanted to rename it after start. Normally that wouldn’t have been a problem, even though it’s not protocoll to do it after start. The problem was that the organizers was pretty sure that the person I got the number from wouldn’t start, so they had put in one of their own Italian skiers at this start position. So, two skiiers at the same start position because both team Xtra and the organizers didn’t follow protcoll. Of course you loose when you are faced against the organizers….I then joined the crew and gave beverage to the Team Xtra athletes. It was great fun to serve the guys and follow the race all the way. On the picture you can see the front group not far from the 3k steep uphill to the finish. Jørgen Aukland in front of Jerry Ahrlin.
Posted on 01/31 at 03:17 PM (UTC/GMT +1)
Friday, January 20, 2012 // Seiser Alm, Italy
I’m now 2 weeks into the cross country training camp here in Italy, one more week to go! I’ve been here almost every January since 1999 and I just love the place. January in Norway is cold and dark, but here in the Dolomites it’s warmer and almost sun every day. On their website it says Seiser Alm has 300 days of sun in a year. I feel my skiing form is better than ever and it’s a shame that I won’t be able to compete in any ski races this year. I’m just home in Norway for 5 days before I leave for Florida.
Posted on 01/20 at 01:24 PM (UTC/GMT +1)
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