Slow 100km

After a party on Friday night, 65km yesterday, a party last night, with 3 bottles of wine between 3, I attempted to do another 100km. I wasn't aiming high, but I was surprised with my poor performance. I could blame the wine, or cycling yesterday, or the high winds. Who knows.

Distance: 100km. Time: 4h etc.

The Wrigstad

My former student Tobias Wrigstad of Stockholm and External Uniqueness fame has left the nest and flown out into the wider world. He has taken a post-doc position in Jan Vitek et al's S3 group at Purdue University. The position looks really exciting, doing some programming language design and development. The work will be sufficiently different from Tobias' thesis topic to broaden his knowledge, without throwing him in the deep end. I think it will be a great opportunity for him to embiggen himself as a researcher.

100km (again again)

The 9-hill route.

Distance: 103km.

Duration: 3h 52m 45s.

Average speed: 26.5km/h.

Maximum speed 60.5km/h

100km

New 7-hills route. Distance of 102.12km, lasting 3h 52m 34s, at 26.3km/h, with a maximum speed of 59.8km/h. The last 15km were extremely hard. All that walking in Norway didn't help my cycle fitness. Or perhaps it was the 7 hills. I usually do at most 2 for this distance.

Vacation in Norway

Lake Gjende
Originally uploaded by supercooldave

We just got back from our vacation in Norway. After a few days in Oslo, where we visiting the beautiful Vigeland park and the Munch museum, and had differ with Einar, we took the bus to Gjendesheim in the Jotunheimen national part. Gjendesheim lies at one end of the Gjende lake (pictured). The area was surrounded by mountains which rose between 400 metres and 1300 metres above the level of the lake. We spend 7 days of walking and did our best to climb them all.

Jotunheimen is a fantastic place to go walking, if one has pistons for legs and no fear of heights, not to mention decent equipment (including proper non-cotton shirts and Gortex raincoat and rainpants). I thoroughly recommend it, though must admit that due to the varying weather conditions contrasting with the spectacular scenery, we experienced both "I hate Norway" and "I love Norway" feelings.

We finished off our holiday in Bergen, which was a very attractive town that I'd recommend to any visitor to Norway. The fjords are magnificent.