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Saturday Feb 12, 2011 #
3 PM
Run 1:02:00 [3] 11.2 km (5:32 / km)
An afternoon run with my brother-in-law from their place in suburban Oslo, on a very nice afternoon once you get used to the idea of a Nordic winter (sunny and around -8 with no wind). The run was mostly on snow of varying degrees of depth and firmness (although with only short patches of deep soft stuff, and none of the ice that is more a feature of the inner city).
Not a bad run, and no sign of the Achilles soreness I\ve had a bit of the last couple of days - more of it after a couple of hours sitting on the plane than actually training. (The sitting on the plane was slightly suboptimal for other reasons because I was next to two drunks, but they didn't make too much of a nusiance of themselves - and Oslo Airport`s luggage delivery was so efficient that I landed at 10.40 last night and made the 10.56 train).
Definitely knew I was in Oslo catching the train out to Cassie and Jim\s place - half the platform was carrying skis and heading for Holmenkollen and points beyond.
Performed my first uncle duties today (without either dropping the baby or being thrown up on). Now engaging in a Norwegian sporting Saturday afternoon by watching the biathlon and the ski-jumping, and wondering what Australian TV commentators would make of one of the German ski-jumpers, one Andreas Wank.
Will also be interested to see when I get back to Geneva how the gun-laws referendum went. I have even less time for Swiss gun lobbyists than those in most other countries because of their role, seeing us as a threat to hunting interests, in dragging Swiss orienteering through a series of expensive legal battles in the 1980s and 1990s.
Not a bad run, and no sign of the Achilles soreness I\ve had a bit of the last couple of days - more of it after a couple of hours sitting on the plane than actually training. (The sitting on the plane was slightly suboptimal for other reasons because I was next to two drunks, but they didn't make too much of a nusiance of themselves - and Oslo Airport`s luggage delivery was so efficient that I landed at 10.40 last night and made the 10.56 train).
Definitely knew I was in Oslo catching the train out to Cassie and Jim\s place - half the platform was carrying skis and heading for Holmenkollen and points beyond.
Performed my first uncle duties today (without either dropping the baby or being thrown up on). Now engaging in a Norwegian sporting Saturday afternoon by watching the biathlon and the ski-jumping, and wondering what Australian TV commentators would make of one of the German ski-jumpers, one Andreas Wank.
Will also be interested to see when I get back to Geneva how the gun-laws referendum went. I have even less time for Swiss gun lobbyists than those in most other countries because of their role, seeing us as a threat to hunting interests, in dragging Swiss orienteering through a series of expensive legal battles in the 1980s and 1990s.
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