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:
  Göteborg Weather   The 17th of January 2016 I will run the Sandsjöbacka 82k race equipped with a GPS tracking device from TracTrac. You will be able to watch my progress through the woods via the web or in your smart phone. It seems that the weather is going to be a “lovely Swedish …
A lovely trail run with Niclas Gällentoft. As always, we had a lot of fun “playing” in the mud and deep sticky clay covered with leaves. What a combination! After ca. 25k I almost returned back! Not bad the temperature here in Gothenburg today – 10°C and it’s the 19th of december 2015!!! …
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A very special run for me. In 2008 we left Venice and moved to Sweden. I had severe asthma issues and needed ca. 200 inhalations of Ventolin every week to be able to breathe! Today I enjoyed running without any problem… just a flow of memories… lots of memories! Almost every …
October 16, 2015 Thanx Mikael Lyckeklint and Fredrik Winblad! 🙂
Sisol, Istria, Croatia Lovely trail/skyrunning 23km training for the 100 mile race next year 😉 Bobina beach, Istria, Croatia Trail running – training for the 100 mile race next year and a lovely swim at the Bobina beach 😉 #trailrun #fitness #outperform #lonesomerunners #löpning #springigbg #stravaphoto #stravaproveit #istria #100miletraining #inov8sverige #inov8training …
Tack Niclas Gällentoft! Som alltid bara GREAT! 🙂 Ni andra… som är “kanske”-markerade….. har ni sovit gött? 😉 https://www.strava.com/activities/419858254
Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 7 PM Tack att du var med Oscar! Trevligt att springa tillsammans! 🙂 https://www.strava.com/activities/413702075
Lovely evening run around the Sisjön and Oxsjön lake with @ultraniclas. Ca. 12 km and I felt just a little bit of my knee issues. But no pain. One thing was interesting today…. I was able to run faster without even noticing that! This has to be a good sign! 😉
Kvällens Tillsammans-löpning i Änggårdsbergen med Gunnar och Fredrik. Som Gunnar säger: “Vackra utsikter, mystisk mörkertrailkänsla i pannlampans sken, trevligt sällskap. Kan en begära mer av livet?” Tack! Tillsammans-löpning Änggårdsbergen Tack Fredrik och Gunnar! 😉 #trailrun #fitness #outperform #lonesomerunners #löpning #springigbg #stravaphoto #runphotos #trailrunning #running #änggårdsbergen #inov8training #inov8shoes #raceultra270 #inov8sverige Ett foto publicerat …