About running and life

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Sunrise run on the ice at Sandskär Island
På väg mot Slagavallen

Flow och mening i sadeln

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Sandarne 7 juli 2025

Klockan ringer kl 02.30. det är redan ljust ute i sommarnatten. Känner mig vaken och redo, kliver ur sängen direkt. Fixar toabestyren. Kollar temperaturen, ca 7 grader. Klär mig i framlagda cykelkläder, bibs, långa tights, mtb-shorts, ullundertröja, cykeltröja, vindjacka, väst. Nere i hallen står cykeln redo med nypumpade däck och cykeldatorn fulladdad. Packad med flaskor med energidryck, och i ramväskor finns energigels, energipulver, vätskeersättning, chokladbitar, powerbars, regnkläder mm. Tredje gången jag ska cykla till vår fjällstuga i Slagavallen utanför Lofsdalen, ca 30 mil plus/minus några km beroende på vägval.  Read more

The Long Game

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Sandarne, March 4, 2023

All sports are about long-term thinking, training for something in a wise and sustainable way, in order to reap the benefits when it's time for competition. Ultrarunning is more about long-term thinking than many other sports, because it requires so many hours of training, each race takes longer than most other sports, and the lower intensity allows for high performance at an older age.   Read more

Winter Swimming

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Sandarne, February 14, 2023

About 7 years ago, Lotta and I began to increasingly winter swim at the edge of the ice in the outer archipelago and a few weeks later in an ice hole in the inner archipelago, partly inspired by the fact that we had started cold-water swimming in the sea with wetsuits as part of our everyday adventures.   Read more

Snowboarding with our kids in Zillertal, 2011

Our 4000 weeks

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Sandarne, Sweden November 9, 2022

In the USA, people live an average of 77 years or 4000 weeks. In my home country Sweden, the average lifespan is 82 years, while the global average lifespan is 70 years. Regardless of whether we live for 70, 77, or 82 years, we have a limited time to live. In a just a slightly larger perspective, we will all soon be dead and forgotten. I think nothing really matters except that the life we live is meaningful when we live it.  Read more

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Swimstreak, values and goals

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Sandarne, Sweden, July 17th, 2022

A week ago, my wife Lotta and I swam 1000 meters in open water for the 30th consecutive day. From time to time, we set a goal around an activity that we can focus on for a period, as a joint project. The first time was in 2016 when we did 50 simple everyday adventures for a year.  Read more

Needs, drives, and longing for nature

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Sandarne, Sweden, April 10th, 2022

My first real contact with a slightly higher mountain was when I was 9 years old and our family vacationed for a week in the mountains. We arrived at the foot of Östfjället in Gräftåvallen on a scorching summer day. I immediately took a trip up the mountain and something struck me strongly. The experience of the mountain just continuing up higher and higher felt unreal and powerful. It gave me a feeling of rapture that I have continued to carry with me.  Read more