Do Swedes like to move?

In one of my post I promised to describe if this reach sport infrastructure is used by Swedes or not, if they enjoy sport or not?

....simple answer is....

 yes, they do !!! 

so I can stop my post here :-) ...joking, of course.

I am wondering how to describe it, but my general feeling is that motion is part of Swedish culture, it is some kind of awareness that you should do it for your own good, for your health and happiness.

It is so easy to discuss with them about sport, everyone has something to add, most of them are very active, in worst case it is golf :-) I discussed with many who finished at least once (but usually many times) half marathons or even marathons. It seems that fact that you can run 10 km is not very impressive here :-). I met persons who finished full Iron Man Competition or they are preparing for it.

Every time when I go running I meet others runners and bikers or power-walkers or roller skiers, seriously every time!!! even when it was -4 C and full of snow I met runners. During my last Sunday jogging I counted around 10 other runners and at least the same number of bikers. It's impressive because it isn't Stockholm or Malmo- it is really small city, similar to which I live in Poland, where sometimes I met other runner...sometimes.

And is not like that everyone is training so hard every day, but many take light motion activities, here power-walk is very popular - I met many people in sport cloths just marching in a little faster pace - it's not very aggravating but it is very good for your health and comfort.

Sport is really part of they life, so I fell that I will write about it many more times :-)

yeah... I did it :-)

Helooooo :-)

yeah I did it..!!! I reached my goal and yesterday I run 16 km :-)
I'm very happy and proud of my self, it was one of the best trainings in my life, ever !! :-)

Ok, it was very slow running almost jogging, but full of endorphins :-)
Weather was marvellous, sunny, a little above zero celcius degree, and only this strong, cold wind was trying to stop me, but yestaerday nothing could stop me :D

I took opportunity and run to the Hovdala castle located around 8 km from city centre, below you can see my training, I made also around 20 pictures so you can check how looks area in which I training now. Just click into picture below




I've almost forgotten to write my experience with new shoes Nike Lunarglide+ 3.
...so it was not love from the first sight, but when I got used to it, it was nice feeling of good amortization but still nothing special.
Difference I noticed after 10 km when I started to feel that these shoes are trying to help run my tired legs :-) strange... but it was feeling :-) what is even more important after training I didn't get any scratches or blistres like in my other shoes.

So we will see later what will be happening.

Thanks for reading !!!

Hej då :-)

I am still alive :-)

...wow, it was long break from this blogg, but now I will try to be more persistent in regular writing :-) Hopefully it will go better then with my regular running :-)

However, I am in Sweden again so I will have time for a little more training, especially that I'm going to run my half marathon quite soon in middle of May, so it's high time for getting some shape :-) It would be wonderful if I will run it under 2 hours - that is second goal, the first one is just to run it !!

Today is great weather here, sunny and +1 Celcius degree, so I'm going to have long and slow running sightseeing trip after midday. Of course I will add some pictures from it. I think it will be around 16 km so it will be my new record if I manage this haha, I must.

It will be also a big test for my new running shoes Nike Lunarglide 3.

So, hopefully I will add something here during evening :-) Keep your finger crossed for me !!