Akerdagen: Yet another way to recruit students

Akerdagen (the Aker day) was arranged at uni with a nice range of lectures regarding training, training and of course it all ended with a competition. Aker had brought with them Åga Skinstad, Eldar Rønning and other celebrities from the cross country skiing environment in Norway. Even though it had been a busy few weeks and I was quite tired from all the physical activities lately I got tempted to attend one of the training sessions. Eldar Rønning who is an awesome skier, was the trainer of the session. The training was announced to be mainly intervals, but apparently they had changed their minds and it ended up being an agility session. That is, it was both harder and I got sore then I had planned. But, indeed it was fun and I got to freshen up on how to do that kind of training.
Later that day they arranged a relay in two parts; First it was a relay with 600 meters running and second a 500 meter rowing pursuit. Several groups from the students sports club had teams attending, but I felt sure the rowers would win this competition. Even though it was a close race, I was right=) Congrats! It was a really fun competition to watch too and I think Aker has found a nice way to get to know students. Instead of the usual beer, we got free fruit at this event=) Sweet!

Notice the nice facial expressions=)



Eldar Rønning(in red) had to step in as a substitute in one of the teams

Everyone is doing their best:)

Finally skiing again, my favourite activity!

Before Christmas there were little or no snow and therefore I did not get to ski much. Luckily I went to visit my brother who lives a place with a lot of snow, and there I got my first skiing experience in almost two years. It was amazing! AND hard. It took a while to get in contact with the muscles that had not been used for ages.
The nature was amazing, the stillness and the feeling of being all alone; just me and my skies - I loved it=)

After being in Argentina for 3 weeks I couldn't wait to go skiing again and just a day after returning to Norway I have been skiing. Although I enjoyed it, it wasn't all a pleasure. After only a couple of kilometeres my body started acting weired and soon I realized I had to go to the car to lie down. When I finally made it there I was pretty scared, but after I while I got better and realized it had to have been the temperature difference between Norway and Argentina that was giving my body a hard time. I think there must be approximately 45 degrees Celsius in difference. I managed to do some more skiing before we went home though very slow and carefully.

Here are some photoes from when I was in Meråker and from a race my brother participated in. It felt good to go to a race again. They are arranged early in the day during weekends and it takes a lot of time and effort, but the atmosphere and the competition is so worth it=)

Could this be a dam? Yes, I am a nerd...

A lot of exercise requires a lot of rest...=)

Morning exercise; real early or just winter?

The biathlon athletes had already had shooting traingin, one could smell it:)

Sunrise

My brother is so kind that he prepares my skies, I am too cold to do so

My dad prepares many pair of skies before the race. I think he is glad only one of us continued..:p

Warming up

Tarjei in action!