The unseasonably sunny & mild fall weather continues here in the Stockholm area!  Good thing to have something positive to think about in the midst of the "Gloabl Financial Meltdown..." & rising mortgage interest rates!

This week on of the Swedish Morning TV shows on TV4 took the unusual approach of cold calling / prank calling CEO's, Presidents and other big wigs at the major banks and mortgage institutes asking them to Please Lower the interest rates now, people are hurting...!!!  Some lauged this off and a few hinted that we may see a slight drop in the not too distant future...  We would NOT argue against this!

Other than this, the week went by in a blur of looong and intense work days. Hence the week was mainly eat, sleep, work, train (a little..) rinse & repeat :-)

Training in the week of Oct. 13 - Oct. 19:

Monday, Oct 13: planned rest day

Tuesday, Oct 14: 1hr 15min bike intervals on the trainer.  15 min warmup, 5 x 5 min (2 min easy) at just under lactic threshold, 3 X 2 min (1min) at 53/11 and ~ 55 rpm cadence, 10 min cool down.

Wednesday, Oct 15: 1hr 5min trainer ride at moderate pace. Ca 17.5 mph which roughly equates 19.5 mph on the road.

Thursday, Oct. 16: ca 1hr 15min bike intervals on the trainer.  15 min warmup then 6 x 5 min (2 min) @ 53/13 and ~ 60 rpm cadence, 4 x 2 min (1 min) @ 53/11 ~ 55 rpm, 10 min cool down.

 Friday, Oct 17: 1hr 10 min tot, 10 min warmup on rowing machine, 50 min weight training. Focus on upper body (or rather lack thereof ;-)  ) using lots of reps & fairly low weights. Finished with 10 min on the Cross Country Ski Machine...

Saturday, Oct 18:  2hr 5min very easy bike ride with Dragana. Avg ca 14.7 mph.  Very nice & sunny day which made for a lovely ride out to Norra Lagno where we turned around at the ferry stop. See pic's above!

Sunday, Oct 19:  2hr 31min run  ca 47:30 min 10k pace. Felt strong but veeery difficult to get any kind of pace going where I ran...

Did a Muddy Buddy Dirt Derby in Hellasgarden!  Ran, slid, splashed and climbed my way around the 10k trail which is partly in miserable condition for running, also did a lap on the 5k trail which is much nicer to run right now!   I looked like I had swam in a mud puddle when I got home. Dragana was wondering where the f**k I had been :-)

Total for the week:  9hrs 21min  (of which  8hrs 31min cardio)

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