 Hey, so I'm out for a little easy walk Just wanted to make a video for you guys even though I don't have anything particular to talk about Actually waiting for my dad. He's out for a run and he's Due to come back in about five minutes. Maybe maybe ten So I just want to take some pictures of him and such when he's running by matter, I'm at the cabin On an island here in Norway This is right behind the cabin. It's really really nice usually it's really quiet but now it's in the middle of peak summer, you know, so There's a lot of boats nearby here people out, you know camping in their boats and one of the boats There's a bunch of drunk people and they're playing loud music. So everyone's being Blasted with this loud music right now. I don't know if you can really hear it though Anyway, still fairly quiet here and very beautiful and interestingly the summer And we have we've had a heat wave here in Norway and it's really still kind of going So it's really warm. I mean, I'm not used to being able to just walk around in a t-shirt and shorts In Norway without being kind of chilly Right now. I'm just being like I could be naked right now. It's like so comfortable temperature Which is quite nice. I'm Slightly frustrated because I'm I have a slight injury in my glute So I was supposed to run today and we have this we have this run here on the island It's about almost nine kilometers where Yeah, we've been running or my dad's been running it my whole life, you know as I was As I was younger, he was always running that and I used to join him sometimes and in the last few years Of course, I've been running that route a few times as well. And today I had on my training plan That I was gonna run that route and I was gonna crush the course record Anyway, that was my plan, but turns out I'm better off not training today because I Don't want to aggravate the injury. So I'm taking a couple of days. Just easy. So instead of Running today, I went out in the kayak and I did a Little 30 minute session only with the kayak tried to get my heart rate up as hard As sort of steadily high as possible just to stimulate, you know, the heart, essentially I'm not really able to train the legs So I'm doing it with my arms and that stimulates the heart to beat And that maintains some of those cardiovascular adaptations So anyway, what else can I tell you guys about? Well, my dad should be arriving pretty soon We're at the cabin actually without my mom this time she's she had to work So it's just me my brother my dad And my grandfather our grandfather. So My dad's dad, right My my dad's dad. He's with us. So we're three generations here just guys And it's really cool. You know, we're we're able to bond And have a good time together. He's just chilling back at the cabin now He did some of his exercises earlier like Just some simple body weight squats and You know, just mobility and a little bit of stretching and Kind of just getting the blood flowing, etc So that's that's good. That's a bare minimum. Anyway, he's in his 80s. So Um, that's important that he at least does something My dad, of course, as I said out running. So that's really good. He's turning 60 pretty soon Running is a good way to stay in shape as you get older Then Mads, my brother, he is he did he went for a walk and now Today he is Well, he went for a walk and then yesterday had a really hard session at the gym before we left to come to the cabin And on thursday, he's going to go to a gym here in the local town on the mainland And do a session there And my dad and I were heading in also to the mainland on thursday to do a session on the track So hopefully my glute will be okay by then. I'm going to do a run easy run tomorrow just to check how it feels and then We're going to hit the track on thursday And see I'm just looking back because I'm I need to be focused when my dad comes. I'll show you guys the footage So we're going to the track on thursday to just do some vio to max training My dad is also running oslo half marathon on the 15th of september And so we're we're we're sort of developing a little bit of a training program for him. I'm helping him just plan out his build up And in that process he'll do a little a few Track sessions as well probably not like at vio to max Probably more like a threshold type effort just a little bit of a higher intensity just to push pushes limits a little bit and Getting ready for a little bit of a harder effort In about seven weeks or so What else can I tell you guys I'm reading reading Some interesting books as always Brought with me those books. It's interesting. I have I have one of these books from christopher mcdougal the guy who wrote the born to run book Natural born heroes one. I think it's his latest book a few years ago. He came out with that book and It's a documentary style, you know, just kind of like born to run but sort of a storytelling type of book and I brought it with me because I typically I thought, you know, I'm at the cabin. I'm relaxing. It's nice to have a book. That's a little bit less Well a little bit more casual of a read But I'm just not able to do it. I just I need to read exercise physiology. It's like This is the only thing that really Satisfies me these days So instead of reading about some story about some guys in crete doing During the war or something which is that book what it's about I just need to read about gastric emptying rates in runners or carbohydrate oxidation rates and All that cool stuff. So I'm really a Geek, I guess it when it comes to exercise physiology. I just really really Like to read about that stuff and learn And so I have a lore of running with me timothy nokes So I look back in that I've read almost the whole thing But I'm looking through some old stuff just fresh refreshing some of the principles And then I'm reading better training for distance runners by Is it peter co? I think so and some other guy and then Those are my main two books and then I also have natural born runners and I of course I brought with me jack Daniels distance running formula as well There's affiliate links in the description. By the way, if you feel like buying some of these books um so Yeah, I have that with me as well because I I'm helping my dad build this training plan And so I like to look through some of the tables Use that as a that as a guide sometimes When it comes to determining paces and stuff like that what else I think that's it and then I have a couple of magazines um with me One of them being ultra runner magazine. I think it's called ultra runner Which I've got I got from Jenny Marie She sent sent that sent that to me. Thanks Jenny. She's one of our hardcore supporters and fans and That's cool And so what else? Yeah, I have with my all my training gear a couple of different types of shoes road shoes and Trail shoes, of course. Oh, he's coming now. He is coming. Okay. I'm gonna film now. Take some pictures All right. Hi Go bra. I think you did it in a pretty good time This first time running this route this year struggling with the zoom on the camera Trying to get the zoom to To work, but I messed it up. It's difficult to do filming at the same time as taking pictures But hopefully I ended up getting a few couple of nice pictures there maybe Anyway Let's wrap it up. I'm gonna End the video here. Thanks for watching this random vlog just at the cabin Thanks for your support. Thanks for joining me here on this channel. 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