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25.07.08 Going to Hamar

It has been 3 weeks since my team and I skated in Heerenveen. Today we travel to the Vikingship in Hamar to skate. Personally I have missed being on ice like crazy, not fully enjoying this so seldom summer heat in the land of 6 months winters.

I got my new skates in the Netherlands, and I am anxious to get to skate on them again. I really love them and I think Ger Groothuis did an outstanding job!

I know the colour is up for debate, but so is my personality ;)

My new skates by Groothuis and my Dutch running shoes. Both in the same collection.

I haven't got any space for comments anymore, or a guestbook. The reason why is in the previous blog post. I know some have wondered why.

20.07.08

I got a really nice letter, one that has given me inspiration and motivation to keep writing in my blog and to keep my website up and running.

The letter was from a lady in the US who calles herself a recreational skater. She said she was a regular reader of my website and missed my updates and hoped I would write more. Her passion for speed skating, like my very own passion, made me think that I should keep updating from my adventures and happenings.

The real reason for me not updating is of all the negative attention the website was getting. It just isn't fun working hard to keep an updated site when all you get back is negative comments, spam as feedback, rumours posted about yourself and workout pictures sent to porn sites. I understand that spandex sports suits can be a turn on for some people, but this is a personal website dedicated to a professional sport and I have no wish that any race photos should be plastered on sleezy discussion boards.

Where is the fun in giving so much of yourself if there is never any appreciation of your work? I'm not asking for praise or regular communication with my readers, just a stop to the abuse of my work and to make speed skating websites into a friendly environment. ...it's not like we are a big community...

Anyhow, I did get a really nice letter and it was so inspiring that it made me want to keep my website running and regularly updated like before with sports news and personal news, photos and events.

19:06:08

Leaving for Heerenveen tomorrow. Packed my skates, running shoes and road bike. Can't wait to get on the ice!

I tried to update my blog archive, but after a few hours of work I got a little tired and somehow deleted all my work (Annoying). Will try to get the old blogs (and photos) up and running when I return back home.

Have a great summer everyone. I know I will.

17.06.08

Hello everyone, I am back online and ready for the summer preperations for the coming skating season. Sorry I deleted my website and all my blogs this past year. There were a few technical difficulties and I never got the time to figure out and fix the problems.

Never mind, I am back on my site and keeping it up and running with my latest skating news, cinematography studies, and general world speed skating news.

I leave for 2 weeks of speed skate training in the Netherlands at the end of this week. My team and I will finally get some ice under our feet. I haven't been on ice since March and I am super excited about starting workouts on ice as soon as possible.

Since March I have been cycling and running long distance. Some off-ice workouts and strength workouts. My studies have taken a large amount of time, and from knowing literally nothing about movies when I started, it's practically scary looking at all the movie productions we have made this year. There has been a new movie made every second week under many different categories of visual media. The good thing with school is that you can really mess up a production and not worry about it, because you get points for effort. Messing up a project would mean thinking you know exactly how the movie will look when you are finished, but then something along the way (that you didn't pay attention to, or by powers out of your hands, elements just didn't fall into place) contributes to messing up the making of the movie and you run around like a headless chicken trying to find the best solution possible. After a year of studies I would say the no. 1 thing I have learned is to work best as possible around unforeseen situations and how to make the very best out of every situation in a professional manner.

Quote learned by heart:
"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, in the worst possible way, at the worst possible moment" ~Murphy's Law

Here are some photos from our biggest production this year:
(All photos by Hilde Finnseth, hildebilde.com)

Makeup and attatchment of microphone.