Sometimes I should just keep my mouth shot....

A few weeks ago our company attended a race, they do this every year. Since I'm not a runner I have never attended the race. It's actually a relay and everyone has to run 5 km. Before they left I saw my boss in his running outfit (which the company gives to everyone who is attending), and well this was probably where I should keep my mouth shot, but I laughed and said "next year I will go, and I will run faster than you!".... 

Why? Well I guess I have a year to get in shape, so it's not impossible... but why would I say that? Now I have even made a bet with him. But again why? I'm not a runner and I don't really like running! Anyways I figured I should start training, yeah I know people don't start training for a 5 km race a year in advance, but I guess it won't hurt getting in shape either. So on Tuesday I decided to run 5 km, and yes I know this isn't the way to start, but I had to find out how slow I was, and how much I needed to improve my time. 

Let's just say I need to cut off several minutes in order to beat my boss, but I also need to run slower, I think the problem is I start out way too fast, and then end up having to walk for too long to catch my breath. So I think running slower will help me run longer... 

Yesterday I thought I had sore legs, but oh how I wished I had kept my mouth shut this morning, because what I thought was sore legs yesterday was pure pain today... the only positive thing is that yesterday our boss of the whole department store asked me to help out with some office work, so I didn't have to walk around all day, but could sit down, my legs were happy:) Now I'm hoping tomorrow will be better...

But since I need to get in shape and really improve my time on the 5 km race, does any of you have some good advice for me?

An All England Champ

When we woke up today it's was snowing again... snow in March, come on give us some summer. Though the cold weather called for inside time, and the finale in All England badminton was being played, and we had a Dane in the finale, Tine Baun. A while ago Tine announced that All England would be her last professional tournament. 

We watched the finale, it got a bit exciting...

Jonas cheered when she was ahead in the game...

 And she won:)

Congratulations to Tine Baun, can you imagine a better way to end a career as a professional badminton player?

I'm not too old after all...

Well it turns out I still have a chance at the Olympics, I'm not too old after all!

Since the weather isn't that amazing this week, and I'm still on vacation, well were are spending more time inside, and the TV is on with the Olympics. Today I watched skeet shooting (I didn't even know that was a part of the Olympics), and apparently we had a Dane in the finals! And he won a silver medal, which makes it the first Danish medal in the 2012 Olympics.

But when I saw his contestants, well that was then I thought I might still have a chance at the Olympics. Well the Gold went to Vincent Hancock from the USA, and he is only 23, the Danish guy Anders Colding is 28. But they had a shootout for the bronze medal which was between Valeriy Shomin from Russia and Nasser Al-Attiya from Qatar. Both these men are 41 years old. I honestly thought Valeriy Shomin was older, the looked older on the field than in the photo I found of him.

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Besides the speakers were talking about how a skeet shooter could compete on a high level well into their 40s and even in their 50s. So there you have it, I might still have a chance at the Olympics, now I just have to learn to skeet shoot, and honestly how hard can that be? You aim and you fire... piece of cake... so look out for me in 2016 in Brazil:)

Caught up in the Olympics...

I wasn't really all that excited about the Olympics, but it has only just started and all ready I have been caught up in several games. I was looking forward to the men's handball games, since this is probably where Denmark will have a chance in winning a medal, there and in one of the rowing competitions. 

Though today I have watched cycling road race, ping-pong, rowing, rifle shooting, women's handball and swimming... why, well there isn't much else on TV worth watching, but somehow I get caught up in the games. Especially swimming, since a heat isn't all that long, there have been Danes competing, one girl is even in the Final tomorrow. I can't help think about when I took swimming lessons back when I was 8 or 9 years old, I did compete once, and I actually won first place (I should mention that I was the only one in my age group)... when my mind wanders, and what if I had stuck to it... could I have been in London competing now? Well probably not, since I just heard them say that some of the swimmers were in their last Olympics, and they were only 26 and 27 years old... but I could have been great in Sydney in 2000 or Athens in 2004... probably not, but it's fun to think about.

I do have to mention that the riffle shooting, I did only watch since they interrupted the cycling in order to show the women's final. Besides did you know that in China it's harder qualifying for the Olympics in riffle shooting than it is winning the Olympics... that only makes the Danish girls look even worse, she was out after the first round:)

So I guess the next week of my vacation I might be watching the Olympics... might as well as it seems like the weather is taking a turn to the worse again.

What a day...

I have had the day off, and I'm almost blown away by how much I have gotten done... well no wonder since I was up a lot earlier than I usually is of my day off. I had an appointment at the hairdresser at 8.00 this morning, I saw they had a 10% discount if you were there between 8-10 am, so why not plan around that. So even with spending a couple of hours at the hairdressers I still had plenty of time to do other things. I went grocery shopping, went to get an environmental stamp for the car, which we need when going to Berlin, went to the mechanics for a check of the car, relaxed, cleaned, started tonight's dinner and I still have half a day left...

Though right now I'm debating wheter or not to go to my badminton class tonight, I'm sore all over my body from moving fruit trees around most of the day at work yesterday. I might just stay at home on the couch, but I told my badminton partner if she couldn't find a replacement I would go, but I wouldn't be able to run.

Just to top off the day, the sun is out, and it 7 degrees Celsius.

The Winter Olympics

Well the Winter Olympics is pretty much all that's on TV, but somehow it just haven't caught my interest as much as the Summer Olympics usually does. There could be several reasons, the main reason could be we only have 18 contestants from Denmark competing in 7 disciplines. Lets just face it Denmark are not good at the winter sports. Our biggest hope for a medal, I believe is the women's curling team, and they have lost 3 out of 4 games so far. Denmark has only got 1 medal ever in the Winter Olympics, and that was in Nagano in 1998, where the women's curling team won silver (they lost to Canada in the final). Before the Olympics in 1998 only few people in Denmark knew what curling was. But the women kept winning games, and people started getting up in the middle off the night to watch their games. That is probably another reason I'm not so caught up with the Winter Olympics, the time difference just don't go that well with me, and I can check the results online instead of watching the reruns during daytime.

The other morning on the morning show, they had a journalist showing Canadians pictures of different Danes, in order for them to point out the athlete. That didn't go well, they thought our Prime Minister, The Queen and the Crown Princess looked more athletic than our guy competing in Alpine skiing. So he figured if the Team in 2014 looked something like the pictures below, we might have a chance for medals...

That's our Prime Minister in the middle, and he should be our big hope? via www.team-rynkeby.dk

And the Queen on skis, she is turning 70 in April, doubt there is much luck there for a medal in 2014 via www.tv2.dk

The journalist had the next day bought a lot of Canadian gear and went to watch the hockey game between Canada and Sweden, and afterwards announced that he had converted, and had become Canadian... Go Canada:)

Weekend is here!

Yeah the weekend is finally here, and very much needed. I will be off work until Monday afternoon, and then I will be working all through the night. I'm actually looking forward to pulling an all-nighter. The last week I have felt hopelessly behind, but every time I try to get something done a bit faster I have been disturbed by co-workers, customers or something else. But Monday afternoon its going to be all Christmas mood for me and a colleague, we are going to stuff the store with all our Christmas items, and do all the things I don't have time to do in a normal workday.

I will spend the weekend thinking a bit Christmas at home as well, I will start decorating during the weekend, though I'm sure that my husband would prefer I kept it at work:) We are also going to support our local soccer team tomorrow, they are having their last home game this season tomorrow, and we have been invited to the lounge by some friends, which means free food and even better free beer, just one little tiny minus about it, I have an spinning class at 8.30 Sunday morning...

My parents old dog Pluto in my soccer jersey, go EfB...

A great Sunday

I'm feeling fantastic today, I had a date with my neighbour at nine this morning to go to the gym. I might end up being one of those people, it was actually quite nice, so I might end up in good shape:D On the way home from the gym we went by a factory outlet, that were selling cheap scarfs, stockings, bathing suits, jewelery, watches etc. Though this time they didn't have that much to temp me, so I only ended up with 3 pair of leggings and a watch for only 95 danish krones (about $19).
Now have the rest of the day to do whatever I want, usually I would be cleaning, but my really sweet husband cleaned yesterday, and did most of the laundry. Its raining though so I'm not going to do any outdoor activity, but maybe I should finish arranging out wedding pictures.
Ohh yeah the other day I wrote a dear 16 year old Connie letter, after being inspired by Wendy's letter, I mailed to her, and she posted it on her blog, you can see it here.