 Alright guys. It's time for an update. I've been away for a little while and I'm here on La Palma This is the house that I'm renting and I've been here for Seven weeks almost now and I'm heading back next week and this is the first video that I'm making here And I want to give you some updates. What's going on with my training? What's going on with my life? And some some other things So first things first, let's really talk about the important stuff first my moustache Take can you see it? It's trimmed. I Trimmed it after ten years of not even cutting my moustache ever It was suddenly time I was suddenly feeling inspired to try something new and I did and I enjoy it. I now enjoy it It I think it looks pretty cool. Anyway Yeah, I I am as you probably know and that's probably some of you wondering about The reason that I went to La Palma Well, I go away in the winter generally because Norway is just the difficult place to be in the winter lack of sunshine Really bad running conditions, but actually this year it's been almost no snow So the conditions for running has been good, but still sunshine is still a Problematic factor when it comes to the Norwegian winter So that's one of the reasons obviously that I went away and went to La Palma for those of you that don't know La Palma is one of the Canary Islands so it's an island in the Atlantic Ocean outside of Africa and It's a pretty cool place and so I Went here, but it was also I also had another objective and that was to heal because as some of you may know I did and I had I've had an issue with some strange Dizziness I call it dizziness, but it's not really dizziness. It's just a weird feeling in my head That has been going on now for six months. It came in August last year and Very frustrating and I did a lot of tests with the various doctors I've done MRI scans EEG scans. I've done a heart checkup. I blood tests. There's no obvious Answer to what it is. There's no glaring deficiencies or any, you know obvious things that I could fix I've experimented a lot a lot I've experimented with all kinds of things supplements trying to seek correlations between things that I'm doing and Training and I didn't find any answers but I came to La Palma and I decided to take a full break from work and Training so for the first five weeks of being here in La Palma. I didn't Run a single step and I never I didn't work at all I basically had a vacation and I I realized that I really need vacations like normal people Everyone needs a vacation now and then and I've never really done vacations I've always worked a little bit and there's a difference between working a little bit and working nothing like when you do no work You just get a different perspective and it's very refreshing. So that was good I was also obviously hoping that the thorough rest would provide my body with What it needed to heal from whatever is going on in terms of the dizziness unfortunately It's still going on the dizziness. I I still have some symptoms Which you know, maybe it'll take longer. That's fine, but I'm still Frustrated of course I have started training again slowly building that up. I'll get to that and hopefully it'll Think the training the running will not Affect the dizziness in one way or the other I did have dizziness even when I was not training for five weeks. So I My theory without going too far into the the situation is that you know I think there could be an epilepsy component here. I did have epilepsy as a kid And it seems to be triggered by looking at screens for me Sometimes so they could be it could be epilepsy, but then the question of course is why did I suddenly get epilepsy again? Or a version of epilepsy, there's a lot of different epilepsy is not 100% understood We don't necessarily know why people get epilepsy or stuff and there's a lot of weird types of epilepsy as well So it could be epileptic, but then the question is why is it because of all my training last summer? It's because I was training so hard. I didn't feel like I was training too hard I was doing it very controlled, but still maybe it was too hard for me. I don't know Could there be a deficiency, I mean could there be some obscure exotic deficiency, I don't know I'm supplementing now with choline, which is a nutrient that I'm getting not as much of on a vegan diet And some people are genetically disposed to need more choline. So, yeah, perhaps Perhaps it'll help. I don't know if it's even brain related The business that is but anyway, so so that is I'm experimenting and when I get back home I'll I'll do some more tests with the doctor. I'll probably do another EEG to see if it's epileptic anyway Otherwise though, I'm feeling really good most of the time. I mean I I'm happy. I I I'm struggling a little bit here on La Palma a little bit Isolated and it's a little boring to be honest because I I haven't trained and I haven't worked So obviously I'm gonna be a little bored now that I'm starting to train again starting to work again a little bit That's that's feeling much better Training is going. Okay, if I can say that, I mean, I wouldn't really say okay, perhaps because I'm so unfit after After five weeks of not training and before that I even had another month of just training a few times So it's almost like a couple months off And it's certainly three months of of less than less training than I'm that than what I'm used to So a lot of detraining has occurred and I am now feeling Very unfit when I go for a run. I feel like a normal person suddenly I'm very slow and Heart rate is high. Of course, you can follow me on Strava. There's a link in the description if you want to Follow my training and Probably probably want to check out patreon too. I have a patreon page. There's a link in the description I'll put a link Somewhere here as well Where I put out exclusive content. I just made a really cool Q&A video over there. So go check that out if you want but yeah, when I go running, it's it's slow and Quite an ordeal But I know that's how it is you get slowly back into things and within a few months for sure I'll be back up where I was and it'll be all good. Anyway Anything else should I update anything else? I'm looking forward to getting back home to Norway in One week and so that'll be nice The Sun should be a little higher now. It's not quite spring yet, but it's It's getting there and the Sun is as high in Norway now as it is in September. So actually, it's pretty That's pretty decent in terms of the future of the channel. I am going to Continue making videos But I'm still Focusing more on my training and my coaching business going forward. So I will not be making weekly videos But I will be making I don't know. I don't want to put a number to it But I'm gonna be making videos regularly just not super often In the meantime you could follow me on Instagram you could follow me on Strava and you can check out my coaching website, obviously I'll put a link to it here where I you know offer Coaching for runners and customized training programs and all that stuff So that's something that I want to focus more on going forward and for now Thanks for following along my journey here on the lone trail. Thanks for Watching and I hope you're having an awesome day. I hope your running is going well Stay tuned for more