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March 20.
Not sure what to write, it's with deep sadness and a
total emptyness that I'm trying to put togheter a few
lines to tell you, that don't already now, that my longtime
girlfriend and best friend Kristy Gough past away in
a bicycle excident March 9:th when she was training
in the San Fransisco area. One more cyclist died in
the same excident.
Here are some links for you that want to read more about
the excident, and for you that didn't know Kristy but
want get a little feeling for what a great person and
athlete she was.
sfgate
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Picasaweb
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Bayarea
News Group »
As soon as I heared about the excident I flew over from
Sweden so I could join in on the memorial cermoni and
try work through and to absorb the whole terrible thing,
but now it's 10 days since the excident and I'm still
in the states trying to support the rest of hers great
family, see our friends here and just to hang out in
this great area to work through my mind, but my brain
just don't want to except that this has happend, it
just doesn't seem real that I will never be able to
hold her again, not in my life here at least. In my
broken english I say, This is crazy..
As it looks like now I'm heading back to Sweden on Tuesday
to keep working with my sorrow.
My own health have gotten a lot better over the last
month but I don't care much about that right now.
It's not much more to write more then that I feel good
support from everyone around me, a BIG hug to all of
you, it means a lot to me even if it's hard for me right
now to show an appriciation. Hopfully the pain and emptyness
will lighten as time moves on and be replaced with all
the great memories I share, and will always share with
Kristy and some kind of appriciation that I got to know
her closer then most people on this earth, even if I
feel hopeless right now.
You will always have a special place in my heart and
mind Kristy !!
Hugs,
Clas
 January
10.
Now we can finally put 2007 behind us and we have a
new exciting year in front of us. Personally I don't
think it can't be much worse then what 2007 was for
me. But even if I didn't achieve much to racing results
I did learn a lot about other things that will benefit
me for the rest of my life in and outside the sport
and that is still something good I believe.
It has been a few month since my last update but not
much has happen over here. I still work at the local
school even if I take a break now and then to spend
some time up in the swedish hills where a friend of
mine owe a hotel.
I will keep working at the school for a few more month
but hopefully later in the spring be strong enough so
I can come over to do some training in the states.
My recovery keeps going slowly in the right direction,
2 steps forward and one back. I still figure out new
things about my body and how in the best way recover
from my overtraining which is kind of an exciting learning
process but I wish it could go a little bit faster.
But they say that efter a real adrenal burn out it can
take up to 2 years to recover so I'm happy I'm almost
one year into it :)
It's a new article posted on Gordos website http://www.gordoworld.com/alternativeperspectives/
that I have written. It's about what to do if you have
to take a break from training and racing.
Stay healthy and enjoy life.
Cheers
Clas
November 10:th.
Now the winter have arrived for real here in Sweden
where I live, it's white and nice outside and I hope
the cold weather continues so the snow stay here.
Since my lasy update I have been working even more
at the school here as an assistent, I really enjoy the
work and will continue to work there until Christmas.
It's fun to be around these teenagers and they keep
my mind busy with other things then training and racing
which is great for my recovery right now :)
Last week the school had "fall holiday" so
we was off for a week. So the first half of the week
I spent up in the Swedish mountains, did some training
and relaxt a lot. And the 2:nd part of the week we had
a training camp with the Swedish triathlon team. It
was fun to meet up and do some training together, my
long course team mates wasn't able to join the camp
due to theirs races at IM Florida and Clearwater but
I had great time with the short course athletes. It's
fun to get a small taste of good training and what it's
like to be around hard training athletes again, was
a while ago and I can't wait to go out there and train
and race my ass off again.
I have written a new article to Gordos site http://www.gordoworld.com/alternativeperspectives/
, this article is about how to avoid overtraining
and what I have learned from my experiance. It might
take a few days or weeks before he put it out there,
but be patient, it will happen :)
I have also put a few new pictures on the link pictures
above. I went on a motorcycle trip to Norway this last
summer so one album is from that trip.
The other album is some random pictures from 2007.
The website xtri.com have done an interwiev with me
and you can read this interwiev if you clcik on this
link http://www.xtri.com/features_display.aspx?riIDReport=4238&CAT=22&xref=xx
So for now my life is moving on in a pretty good harmoni
with the work at the school during the weekdays and
then I mix in some training at night and on the weekends.
This is the time of the year when I help my Dad to bring
home wood so we can heat up the house for another year,
so a few weekends we have spent out in the forrest,
and it will be a few more weekends before we have enough.
To be out there in the forrest is the best training
I can think of for my body and mind.
I get a great physical workout but at the same time
I heal my mind and get a lot of fresh air. You should
try it. It's like hard yoga :)
Next week I'm going to take a few days off from school
and drive up to the Swedish mountains again to visit
the athlete project I'm involved in. They have a lot
of cross country ski tracks up there which I really
like doing and cross country skiing is great supplemental
training to triathlon.
I used to do a lot of skiing 6-7 years ago but then
I started traveling to New Zealand to be able to do
triathlon training, but this winter my plans are to
spend a little more time here in the winterland.
You have a few live webcameras over the ski area/town
up in the hills where I going to visit, here are some
links:
http://www.hamrafjallet.se/webkamera/webcamtop.htm
http://www.hamrafjallet.se/webkamera/webcam1.htm
http://www.hamrafjallet.se/webkamera/webcam2.htm
So my recovery keeps going in the right direction,
and now when I have found a more balanced life with
the work at the school I can feel that my recovery is
even better which is very exciting.
Take care.
Best regards
Clas
September 30.
Hi all.
The fall has arrived for real in Sweden, this is the
time to take a deep breath and recharge the batteries
after for most people a hectic long summer.
The picture is taking here, 2 weeks ago when I was visiting
an athlete project that I'm involved in that are based
up in the small swedish hills/mountains and the first
snowfall came.
A few people have bought a hotell up there and are turning
into an "athlete village" so both Pros and
age groupers can stay there and train with full support
and also have coaches, massage therapists, lactate testing....
available. In the winter time it's a perfect place for
cross country skiing, it's hundreds of miles of ski
tracks in the area and if you need to do some triathlon
training they have indoor bikes, a treadmill and a pool
to. In the summer time you have great trails to run
and ride mountainbike on if you want to go off road,
it's a beautiful place, so nice and quiet but have all
the energi from the surrounding hills. Theirs website
has just a swedish version but if you want to look at
some pictures the link is www.sportsupportcenter.se
.
My strenght have come back even more since my last
update, I have been able to do some hard, shorter sessions
and even some 3 hour+ rides which is big for me at this
point. I need a lot of recovery after the long rides
but nothing else havent been expected either.
Last week I started a longer break from hard training
just as I do after every session. I have been stepping
up my training over the last 3 month and even with a
few rest days every week and focus on recovery every
3:rd week I still feel like I need a longer break to
make sure that I don't do to much to soon. My coach,
Matt Dixon at enduranceptc.com and Dr Morgan www.drcamphealth.com/,
are great to work with and are helping me make the right
decision so I can make make my way back to racing as
safe as possible.
While I'm taking this break from hard training I'm
taking the opportunity to do some teaching at the local
school and I have also joined an english class to practise
my english. Even if my english have got much better
over the years I know I still have some work to do,
especially with the grammatics, and if I can learn a
few more words to that's great.
And to be fair I can see that if I want to recover as
fast as possible I sometimes have to take step away
from my training,racing focus and just do some other
things, and what can fil that function better then noisy
students and some english :)
Then I have written some more articles that are posted
on Gordos site http://www.gordoworld.com/alternativeperspectives/
if you feel like reading a little.
Other things that I'm doing is that I still use my
Bemer3000 magnetmadrass a few times a day, and I'm also
trying a product namned bestway that are some kind of
oxygen your drop in a glass of water a few times a day.
I will try to find a good link so you can read about
this yourself. Both these products are working with
the cells in the body and I find them pretty interesting.
So now I'm taking some well-earned rest, I can feel
all the way out in my toes that 2008 are going to be
an hectic year, so I better make sure that I enter the
year full of energy :) Take a hot cocoa and get under
the blanket, it's fall !
Best regards
Clas
20/8
Hi everyone.
Just want update my site to tell you the great news
that I have made it back to the racing circuit, it was
last Saturday I raced a local triathlon race here in
Sweden,the distances was 350 m swim, 12 K bike and 4.4
K run, a little different from IMUK that was my last
triathlon last year before I completely fell over the
edge with my overtraining and my virus.
It's have been a long year so it was very nice to just
make it to the start line at this race, this was one
of the last triathlon races in Sweden for this summer
so it was nice to be able to get a race under my belt
now when we enter the fall.
I have been able to train 4-6 hours a week for the
last 6-7 weeks after been completely off for 5 month
before that so I was very surprised how good my body
felt during the race. Of course I didnt have the top
speed endurance, or any real top speed at all but I
found a got rytm during the swim, exited the water in
4:th place, on the bike I moved up to 2:nd place, started
the run 40 sec or so behind first place but was able
to find my old running legs and run him down the last
2 K and win by 39 sec.
Of course it was nice to win the race but the biggest
victory was just to be able to do a triathlon again.
I still have to be very careful how much stress I but
on my body and take one step at a time, but consider
that it was "just" 7 month ago I wasn't even
able to leave the house for a few weeks because my body
was so run down I have to say that I have come a LONG
way back. I guess I'm about 80 % recovered, but with
this race under my belt I have got even more energy
to keep doing the right things to improve my health
back to 100 % so I can train and race at a professional
level again.
And probably already in the 2008 season.
Results:
1. Clas Bjorling 42.59 min
2. Nico Axelsson 43.38 min
3. Erik Desmeules 44.34 min
I attached a picture from the run.
For more updates during the fall please look at my website
www.clasbjorling.com
Thanks for your great support !!
//Clas Bjorling
17/7
It was almost a month ago since my last update, and
I'm happy to say that my energy just keeps going up
every week.
I'm now stabil on 5-6 hour training weeks and I'm able
to recover well and just get stronger and stronger.
I was able to find a lab in Denmark that could help
me to organize all the complicated test I did in the
States during the winter so I could follow up with new
tests to see how my body are recovering without having
to travel to the States, and it looks pretty good. It's
amazing how much information these test can give you.
Fot the last 6-7 weeks I have been using a Magnet carpet/madrass
that are called Bemer 3000 and I'm amazed how it have
helped my recovery. Pretty interesting how energy fields
effect the body.
I'm also using a food supplement called FitLine that
I have seen good results from.
http://www.pm-international.com
As you can see on the picture above I have got myself
another vehicle that help my recovery and that I can
do my meditation with :)
It's a great feeling to be back into a training rutine,
I can not believe that it have been almost 11 month
ago since I raced Ironman UK and I was never able to
recover and I got into this big, black hole. I will
never push my body that far again, I will train myself
tired, and race myself tired, but I will put in much
more recovery time in my training and racing schedule
in the future, and the exciting thing is that I think
that will make me to a faster and stronger triathlete.
For the rest of the year I will slowly add some hours
and intensity to my workouts but a lot of focus will
also be on the recovery.
I'm also writing some articles about different things
to one of my best friends, Gordos website, you can find
the first one on his site http://www.gordoworld.com/alternativeperspectives
, I will also put these articles on my site but for
now you can find them there.
I hope you are enjoying the summer, the warm weather
havent really arrived in Sweden yet but it will come.
Have a great summer.
//Clas
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