Blog or Facebook ?

Funny (sad?) how rarely I use the blog since I started using Facebook more and more. Still, blogs have a big value in themselves - perhaps time to start again...

Close to the end of my jogging run

I see this - always makes me happy

Sunny in Munich in January

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Sunny January day in Munich

When we got back from Jamaica last week, it was 30 degrees plus there and -14 here - now it is a bit nicer, as I sit outside in the sunshine reading.

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Christmas in Sweden

Enjoying the holidays playing Guitar Hero !

Lovely Christmas in Sweden

OK - no snow for Christmas - but a bit of powder made it a "white" Christmas and we have had a wonderful time both at my parents place and then at Rickard & Marita's place.

Malin got Guitar Hero as a present - this has been enjoyed by all, we have hardly time to eat for all the playing of guitar, drums and singing.

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Finished the New York Marathon

Wow - this was a very mental marathon, I hyped it up in my own mind - in the end it was a wonderful run and with so many people cheering me on along the route.

My final time was 5:47, not very fast but I reached my goal of finishing. I was on track for ca. 5 hours during the first half of the run, but then I could feel the legs stiffening up and my pace getting slower. The Queensborough Bridge (uphill) and 1st Avenue (mostly uphill) were slow, Bronx was OK but when I hit 5th Avenue at Mile 20-21 I felt some indications of cramp in the legs and made sure to just run slow and safe from there on, all the thinking on making a good time went out the window and I was too tired to even think of finishing times.

During the run, I had a Swedish flag on my chest - so many people cheered me on as "Go Sweden!" - what a wonderful city to run a marathon in.

And once home in Munich again, Monica threw a surprise party for me in the evening, friends came over and I could tell my story again and again - each time re-living it myself and remembering the people, the weather, the music bands, the finishing line !