Showing posts with label Aarhus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aarhus. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Sightseeing Aarhus!

Kathryn and I took the sightseeing tour last weekend...


The first thing on the on the list was The Aros, the city's biggest and most famous art museum with collections covering the 18th to the 21st century. The building itself is an amazing architectural experience with a spiral staircase connecting the 8 floors. We spent quite a few hours wandering among the paintings, sculptures and installations.

Afterwards we headed back in time, visiting The Old Town, a living and breathing museum of a danish market town.

We secured an important part of our freediving diet these days, a little bit of cake!


On Sunday, we travelled a little outside of town to find some peace and beauty in the Japanese Garden.


The waterfalls, the carps, the trees and the flowers, they all created a wonderfully pleasant experience and we left feeling calm and relaxed. Perfect build-up for a freediving world championship.

Now it's less than a week left. I've finished my trainings, and all that is left is adjusting the last details in weightning and resting alot.

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

My freediving club

Aarhus freediving club is a very friendly and social club with room enough for a wide range of members. There's new guys, old guys, small kids, older kids, people doing it only for fun as well as world class athletes. The "club house", the sauna, is starting to become too small because of many new people getting started. The freediving scene is growing, but it's still important to keep the open, warm atmosphere:)

Check out this movie made by AFK freediver Lars Strandridder, showing our club house, the pool and some of the people having fun FREEDIVING!

Monday, 24 September 2007

Busy week

I'm afraid I wasn't so good at blogging last week, but still proud of myself since I did quite some good training. The weekdays are pretty busy here though. I'm at school from 8:00 to 16:00 or something, going off to training either 19:00 or 21:00, and doing some homework in between. Not so much time for writing blog posts or vacuuming... Luckily there's some weekends in between to look forward to!

My training last week was something like this:

Monday - STA training
Doing one 3 min warm-up, then 3 x 2 min fighting (so time starts when I get my first contraction, which is around 2.15-2.45).

Tuesday - Mostly swimming, total 3000m
500m warm-up, 3 x 200m (25m easy dyn with small fins/25m crawl, then repeat), 100m free, breast swim: 300m only arms , 300m only legs, freestyle: 200m puls, 8 x 50m dyn with monofin, 8 x 50m dnf, 400m free

Wednesday - spesific training
Dyn longer dives with monofin: 75m, 76m and 100m
16 x 50m, start time: 1'12 the first 14 times, then 1'10 and 1'08 = 19min in total! New pb ;)

Thursday - light technic training
Some swimming for warm-up, then 12 x 50m with monofin focusing on different styles and general technic.

Friday and saturday - on the couch, taking care of my tired legs

Sunday - spesific training

Dyn longer dives with monofin: 80m, 100m and 110m
10 x 50m (too tired and too little time to finish it), start time 1'10-1'05, varying a little after how much acid I had in my legs :S

Now it's monday again, so I'm soon off to the pool. This week I'll take a little more rest though, as I'm competing in Copenhagen Open on saturday and sunday. My shape feels okey, so we'll see what happens...

Saturday, 1 September 2007

The first tango in Århus

Last night I went to my first milongo in Århus since moving down, and it turned out to be a great night. I came one hour early to join the intro salon first, where alot of other new people also showed up and we where welcomed and tried out some of the beginners steps. Then the real milonga started, where you dance with alot of different people and really have fun. After having spent almost four hours on the dance floor, I simply had to go home and try to make my feet recover. Because on sunday there's a big tango happening, within the festival Aarhus Festuge, which I'll have to take a look at...

Moving from a small town to a bigger one has some advantages. One of them is that there are milongas (dance nights) here every other friday, and courses and training evenings. In Norway I had to travel to either Lillehammer or Oslo do dance argeninte tango...
Of course the scene isn't as big as the one in Berlin, where I've been dancing several times, but hopefully I'll get to dance more regularly now and learn more.

Wednesday, 22 August 2007

First day at Uni!

Waking up early again after a long summer break wasn't really pleasant, but I survived with the help of some hot coffee. I'd already had some problems getting around to the right places in Århus as I don't really know the town yet, but now I had a big university campus to cope with too! And the worst part is not the high amout of different buildings, but that they all look the same with their yellow brick stones and green surroundings.

It was a long day with welcome speeches, campus tour, buying books and learning the names of my fellow class mates. There's certainly a different feeling to this, but I really like the fact that I'm finally a student. And I must admit I even look forward to the first lectures after looking through one of the books I bought about human physiology. It's interesting! And for those of you who don't know (or don't remember the difficult name), I'm studying Molecular medicin.

Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Life in Århus

Breakfast can be tricky without a sufficiant number of seats. Cardboard boxes may work, or they may make you fall over a few times...

Anyway, the coffee tastes extra good in a new home and you don't mind having towel curtains for the first week or so.

With some good help from Martin, I also got to put up a lamp. Total costs: 85 DKK, inclueding light bulb. Thank God for Ikea!

Friday, 3 August 2007

Moving in

The big trip to the flat land of Denmark went from Gjøvik to Larvik by car, then the ferry over to Hirtshals and finally arriving in Århus around noon 2.august.

I must admit I did not manage to pack light this time either, so we had the car all filled up and the hanger too (is that the right word?).



Unfortunatly, my wonderful new bed was just an inch too big to fit into the elevator, and my dad and I had to carry it up to fifth floor... Well, some more strair exercise?

After some cleaning, it was time for the thing I had been looking forward the most: getting the furniture up and all my stuff to it's place! Stick around for the "finished!" pictures.

Saturday, 28 July 2007

Just made my day...

I just found out I've got into university!!! So now it's for certain, on 1.august I'm moving to Aarhus, Denmark, to study molekular medicin and train freediving. Really, I can't wait:)
Oh, by the way. there can't be a university logo better fitted for a freediver than this one?