Hi there!
I have to say that Sweden helped me a lot finding my loved and forgotten hobbies and my love for sports and competition.
In 2008 I weighed 128kg, in august 2013 I weighed “only” 98kg. Still, something was not right! I started to do what I left years ago…. training! And I loved it (not really)!
July 2013 – The picture below is the one that made me understand that something is very… I mean very, very “Wrong” with me!
Well I accepted the fatty, slow, acid, negative dude in me?! Was that possible? I had pain… always. Well, this is one of the things affecting me in a particular tough way – the pain.
In 2003 I worked in Italy and helping my colleagues with an IT cargo (computers) I managed to get myself a wonderful disc herniation…. well, not just one as later on emerged…. but two nice beasts squeezing my nerves! Just great!
And when I thought like: “Well…. could it be worse?!”….. the answer was of course: “YES”!
The fact that I have asthma resulted in a constant excuse used by fat, lazy, smokers…. What? Smokers!? YES! I smoked too…. a lot! So, pain in my back due to the hernia, the smoking due to depression or the sore fact that almost everybody in my family used to smoke and yes… somebody states that smoking is kind of hereditary too! Well…. Could it be worse now?! YES! Of course! :)
A day before Christmas 2008 I planned to do the last IT service before heading back home to my family… I was driving to the location while speaking to my wife on the phone (using a cable of course)… the traffic was horrible as always at the well known “Tangenziale di Mestre” and….. BAM! A guy did not see my car I guess due to the mist…. That hurts! Trust me!
OK…. I was lying on the couch watching the TV and drowning in my pain and sorrow, my wife was doing pretty much everything,,,, and I was really asking myself on how much more could she take of this crap and watching me complaining about this and that and not doing actually anything to change a single thing in my pathetic life!
I knew I had to change something…. maybe everything….
I tried, a lot. But something was wrong all the time. I was large… too big with my 113kg!
So we decided…a change was needed! Not only for me, but for the whole family! We needed a better and a smarter life!
We moved to Sweden! :)
Feel free to read the whole article here:
https://sasinka.se/lifestyle-evolution
Feel free to read my “running evolution that eventually evolved into a lifestyle evolution:
NOTE: I got the a new pair of Speedgoat2 shoes by Sportsshoes.com. The design is the same but the new version has reinforced the part where my shoes broke. Now, after miles in those I still have no issues! Great job Hoka! 🙂 I will write a longer review about the shoes from my …
The last year I had to DNS due to a virus or something so I took many photos of runners and I was so sad in my little heart that I was not able to run…. Facebook Photo Album This year, I felt weak on Monday the 8th. I was irritated and …
Photo by Niclas Gällentoft This old dude is looking quite good right?! ? Another year is about to start and this year is my fourth year as a runner and…. I love it! I made interesting progress this year, maybe not in figures but in pure running experience! I know better …
Do not forget that “If it’s not on Strava, it never happened”! 😉 Have a lovely 2018! This was a tough year. Much tougher that I could ever predict or “plan”. It started with a virus just at the very beginning of the year and before the Sandsjöbacka Trail race! I …
Another lovely run together with the Eklanda Trailrunning group! 🙂 This was just a short part of my 3h run! I just love the feeling while running with such a great group of lovely humans! Just great! See you soon! 😉
What a lovely day today! After two days with some kind of a cold, and a rest yesterday in order to check my body I managed to run today both in the morning together with Eklanda Trailrunning group and later in the evening alone in Gunnebo in order to push it a little bit …
Read more “Eklanda Trailrunning – A lovely run in Änggårdsbergen”
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The 11th November 2017 @ 01:00 a.m. many of you guys will be sleeping and dreaming sweet dreams! 🙂 Not me! I will be at the start line of the 121km long trail course of the “Sätila Trail” race. If somebody wants to follow my GPS during this, feel free to …
Änggårdsbergen is one of my favorite places to train. Other lovely places in the Gothenburg area where I often run are: – Sandsjöbacka nature reserve – Gunnebo area – Balltorp – Safjället nature reserve – Delsjöområdet nature reserve Quite often I combine these areas too! Check out my “Mölndal Loop” runs! 🙂 …