Mölndal – Balltorp Run
A great trail run with
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:
A great trail run with
Today was maybe the first run that I actually enjoyed running with my Merrell Trail Glove 2 shoes both on asphalt and dirt/trail. No pain, no stress…. just lovely running. The timing was almost perfect and the evening light created wonderful opportunities for lovely images – just tranquillity, silence, peace and me running in harmony …
This run wasn’t really the best one maybe because of the fact that I been fighting all those viruses stressing my family, so I’m pretty tired myself…. and maybe (quite sure) I have some kind of a nice virus too stressing my body. However, I went out and it felt better right away…. The very …
I have planned a hill run or something really tough…. Still, I guess that my daughter’s sickness contributed to the fact that my body shouted loudly “NO” to that idea! Instead I did this evening relax run and I anjoyed it quite a lot: I should incorporate more interval cardio training and/or power sprints! It’s …
This video is filmed by Niclas Gällentoft while running the Norra Långvattnet Bohusledens trail to the Delsjön’s nature reserve. As you may see in the clip the trail was quite icy, snowy and technical… still, a lot of fun! 😉 The green line in the image below is the trail part filmed by Niclas! Feel …
Today’s Long Run (34.2km)….. on hard and soft surface, up and downhill, easy and damn tough icy and snowy trails and narrow tricky paths too, and just a little bit of mud (I really need that)! 🙂 A balanced mix of asphalt, ice-road, dirt road, and technical singletrack trails … you name it! That’s the …
And YES! I finally managed to buy my BestGrip from Best-grip.se! I decided to try them on a pair of my onl Adidas Duramo (or something) shoes and…. wow! It worked like a charm! I ran on snowy roads covered with ice, on ice, up and down the hills….. NO problem at all! Just great! …
10.0km | 1:02:46 | 6:16/km and….. 205hm in Gothenburg city center! Nice! Bergvalls Trappor – this was the first time that I decided to train this, to run up & down the stairs…. 5 times! And wow…. It felt awesome! Stair running is superb training for running. In addition to strengthening the muscles around the …
DONE! It’s official now… I’m crazy! I just registered for the “100 miles of Istria” race! The 110km race is the one I’ll run. The long 100 miles will wait… Not this time! lenght: 110 km D+: 4707 m D-: 4757 m highest point: 1396 m lowest point: 0 m stations with bags: 1 refreshment …