Det här med att bibehålla balansen som ultralöpare — det är inte alltid helt lätt. Man ska äta bra, sova bra, träna hållbart, få tillräckligt med återhämtning mellan varven och gärna yoga och styrketräna för att kroppen (och psyket) ska orka springa långt.
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When you’re out running for 6+ hours a day for six days, you’ve got a lot of time to think. Well, actually, a lot of my time spent running the Haute Route I didn’t think about much at all. My mind was blank and a majority of the time my only focus was on setting one foot in front of the other. But there were also times when my mind was more active than others — especially when I was suffering because of the heat or lack of food or just because my body was exhausted from the long days.
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Searching for balance, without knowing what the word really means, where to find it or how long it will take until it shows up. I took a week off from training. My body and mind have been feeling off lately. What drove me to make the decision to take a break was an evening on the couch feeling exhausted and asking myself “why do I feel so tired?”.
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Thoughts pre- and post-24 hours of running on a 1K loop in Gothenburg, Sweden (March 27th 2021). The event is called Pace on Earth Invitational.
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On our hike yesterday, @jostkobusch and I discussed the challenges that we as humans encounter on different levels in the pyramid Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. My worries in life primarily center around the search for meaning. That’s the highest level of the pyramid, when all other needs have been satisfied.
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blinded by a darkness of distractions and noise
always striving, hoping for something beyond.
longing to scale down,
shed the layers
desperate —
for silence.
I live to live,
To feel the wind in my hair
Rosy cheeks from frozen air
A heart that’s beating faster
Reminding me that I live.
A couple of years ago I lost my period. It didn’t return until 4 years later, earlier this spring. I didn’t see how serious it was back then. I thought about how nice it was not to have to deal with it — the hormones playing games on me, and having to plan my life around my period. It was convenient.
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I see death as an inevitable part of life. Without death there can be no life, and the other way around. They are two sides of the same coin. But when it happens, unexpected and while the person is still so young, death is difficult to grasp.
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One of my best memories from this summer is from heading over to Switzerland with @jostkobusch in August to climb the North face of Piz Badile. It was a beautiful little get-away sleeping under the stars, climbing this 900 m vertical wall with incredible views across the Swiss Alps, and arriving at the summit late in the evening — meaning we had to spend the night in the emergency bivouac hut at the summit with two very friendly Italian guys.
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