LET’S TAKE IT FROM THE GETGO… 🏃🏾♀️
My ”life in sports” began when I was 3
We lived in Chicago at the time and my mom took me to dancing classes.
I just loved beeing with the other kids, focusing at the task at hand. After dancing came basket ball. Horse back riding. Handball. FIoorball. Loved it all.
Soon I also got into track and field, and the feeling was just the same. A sense of belonging.
Growing up in a family who moved from country to country almost every other year (my father was a coveted math professor), that feeling grounded me wherever we went.
As soon as we landed in a new country I couldnt wait to join the local club.
The familiar feeling of the tracks beneath my feet, having a coach and team mates always made me feel at home in just a few days.
It took a while until I started to fully appreciate the competition side of sports. But I remeber exactly when it happened. It was when I won my first gold medal.
We lived in Saudi Arabia at the time. A 60 meters race. Standing on top of the winners stand...that feeling...I wanted more!
Track & field was my passion for several years and I even won a couple of Swedish national championship gold medals. It all ended quite abruptly when I broke my foot during a race.
I stopped competing but never stopped exercising. I took dance- & aerobic classes, I even ran some amateur 5k:s races, but the fire wasn’t there anymore.
4 years ago I found it again.
My brother (and now also my coach) signed me up for an OCR race. Bruised and completely exhausted after crossing the finish line I felt it. The hunger to do better. To excel. I signed up for another race just 2 weeks later.
That same summer, I ran my first 10k and my first 1/2-marathon. I was in love. These last four years I have run loads of half marathons -all over the world and last year I ran my very first marathon.
I’m so grateful to my brother who made me find my way back to the lustful feeling of standing at the starting line. - And give my everything to cross that finish line faster than I did the last time.
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Woke up to yet another winter wonderland ❄️❄️❄️. Yes, it’s lovely and all that, but speed work on icy roads is not that fun 🙄. So instead, a 25k run, reminiscing back to Playa Del Canteras, picturing me running barefoot at the water edge. Aaaa such sweat memories 💕☀️💦
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PBs, loud cheers, high fives, deep talks and the best people. What a weekend 🥹
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A race bib, my backyard roads, and my #ASICSFrontRunner family screaming their lungs out 🫶🏾🤍
Treated this 21k like a training run… but 95 minutes feeling “easy” tells me the work is working.
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Kungsholmen life: 25 yrs 🏃🏾♀️
@coopkungsholmenrunt Run tradition:10yrs
Clips: last 3 yrs
Still not bored 😂✨
See you again on Saturday ✨
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Like Marcovaldo, I ran into a version of the city that only exists in between. It’s quieter, gentler, almost imaginary.
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