5th place

I placed 5th on the K2 1000m and 12th on K2 500m. I’m dissapointed with the result and our performance here in Halifax. It’s been a great year overall with podium places on 1000m and 500m in the world cups and winning the european championships. I now look forward to a break from paddling and training and I don’t think I’ll race next year, maybe I’ll be back in 2011…

Olympic Games

There has been some changes on the Olympic program. 500m for men is off the program. New events are 200m men and 200 women.

Worlds

You’ll find results and everything you need to know on this adress: http://www.canoe09.ca/ you can also follow the action on Twitter, http:twitter.com/Canoe09 and http:twitter.com/nelokayaks

Diving

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It’s not far from Årungen to the sea and on warm days we sometimes go for a swim. Here Øyvind is showing off, trying to impress some girls with his diving skills…

Last week in Norway

Most of the hard training is done and it’s now time to enjoy the good form that this years training has been leading up to. I feel faster day by day and our lactate training over the last four weeks has worked as planned. Today we did a race simulation on the K2 1000m here at Årungen and we did a new PB and Årungen record, 3,12,0!! Tailwind: 1,5m/s. I’m leaving monday the 10th of August to Canada and the World Championships.