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Today I had the pleasure of looking after the kids and youth practice in the local SIF Cykling club where I ride as well. It’s always good fun having those 10-14 year old kids out in the woods. They’re pretty cool and you can definately see that the sooner you start riding - the easier it’s going to get for you later on. On the same time it’s pretty amazing to see how much they’ve developed in the past year. Awesome youngsters :)
On the same day, it was time to give the Scalpel a go again. It has gotten a good service, new drivetrain, wires, new pedals, every moving bit has been greased up and it’s basically ready for the spring. However, I’ve also had my Lefty fork serviced at a 88+ in Germany. And you won’t believe what they’ve done to an already amazing suspension fork. They’ve reduced it from around 1220 grams to 1170 and made it ride so much more smooth than I would ever have imagined. Like a hot knife through nougat - I love it :)

Ever since I’ve moved to Silkeborg, which is sort of a lake-highlands area with heaps of hills, lakes and laods of singletrack, I’ve been having a plan to create “the beast”. The goal is +2000hm trip going over 80% singletrack. The first 1100hm I’ve got sorted out. Obviously, you can always improve on your tracks, but it’s gotten to be a pretty sweet ride so far. (more…)

On my day off with too much wind for the roads and too much ice for kayaking, I went for a good cup of coffe. Now, the best place to do so, is right in my kitchen. Someone, I won’t say who, complained that the espresso post had been on the top of my blog too long - so here you go: Another coffee post (more…)

I had taken the day off to get some relaxing time at home, go for a paddle and maybe even hit the tarmac. However, after hanging out with Langballe all morning I went to Virklund for a paddle around Thorsø. The sun was shining, the wind still hadn’t showed up and I was ready to get on the water. However, the lake was frozen so the paddleing was cancelled. As the wind picked up, what to do then with your day off…?

I must admit: Any atempt on structured training, consistency or just seriousness have been lacking completely for the past two-and-a-half months. I’ve been on-off with what-ever-it-is that is going around, the weather has been changing alot around from sad but rideable to plain lousy. Anyway, the excuses are plentyfull, and a new plan has been formed, By order of the doctor / coach / dad: Base-training. So I’m starting off with a lot less time on the mountain bike, and a lot more time on the roads.
Sunday I went on the “hvide spor” for an hour with Henrik Helmer just out of Roskilde on the way back from the annual assembly in the Danish cycling federation (DCU). Didn’t really impress myself, but hey, it was just a joy ride.
Yesterday, I started out gently with the new plan: I drove a bit of the way back from work, and rode the remaining 50kms on my bike. It took me an hour and a half, so that wasn’t too bad. The goal is so far to do it just once a week. As I get stronger and the weather improves I will aim at two time a week, until the mountain bike season kicks off again - then it’ll be back to once a week probably.
Tonight, I went out for an hour before our Night Ride Cup here in Silkeborg. It was a pretty cool circuit only going up or down. Technical and fast sections downhill, and long steep ascends - Just my style. I went for it as relaxed as I could, riding around 75-85%, rather than the traditional 90-95% I do during these races. I came in third, just as planned and I was overall pretty satisfied with myself after two-and-a-half hours riding in the darkness. Tomorrow I got the day off, and I hope to get out for a paddle - it has been ages.. :)

There is simply just nothing which can beat a cup of home-roasted-freshly-ground-propper-made-real-espresso in the morning…

It’s the place in the new Batman movies where Archam Asylum is located, and thus, makes the perfect reference to the skinny wheels on the road bike. Aaboe dragged me out for a ride around Juelsø today. By the best of Steve Peat “It was cold and miserable danish weather - but I guess thats what makes us tougher than those guys in the warm places”. - well, actually the weather turned out really nice even though it was a fair bit windy. 40k’s - an hour and a half - far from impressive but the ride was excellent.