I guess you could say that today was a nice day!

Spent most of if on the roof top pool at Fairmont in the sun and then I went for a run with Janni. Today was however the first day i had a pulse watch on me while working out. Turns out its way more fun to run when you can track what your heart thinks of your pace. I started out with 22 mins of 125-150 beats per minute, the next 13 mins in 150-170 beats and the last 4 mins at 170-181. Over the last 4 minutes I thought I was pushing myself pretty hard, but when i saw that I would not go over 181 I realized that there was more to give as my max pulse should be around 190-193. The pace I had was what I though before, very close to what I could handle, but as the watch told me I had more to give it all of a sudden felt pretty easy and that I just wanted to push harder.

So conclusion is that I think its great for me to observe the watch and let it tell me how hard I am pushing myself rather going on what I "thought" was tough. I know I should have found this out 10 years ago and worked in a much more pro way a long time ago, but its not easy to do everything right from the start. The important thing is that I am on the right track now! 

More sun and gym on the schedule tomorrow!

/JON

So I think I am really getting into this! Over the past 5 years I have told my self "its time to get serious and start training" but for some reason I have let to many things get in my way. I really do think its different this time! Over the past 10 days I have had 8 session in the gym and 5 ski trainings on top of that. It really feels great! Now all I have to do is stay on this course and keep working at it, I really think I will, feel stronger, more energetic and super motivated!

Just crushed my abs so I am off to bed, but before I fall asleep I had to share this video, pretty funny how wrong things can go when you are tyring to be cool!

Good night!

/JON

So when JOI was over I thought I would get some piece and quiet. Thats always the case, I hope that I an survive the next few weeks thinking that its all going to be alright if I make it though a tough period.

The problem is however that once I have a few minutes over I am such a perfectionist that I start looking at details I would not have done if I would not have had the time, resulting in an always full inbox and no spare time. I just dont know how to see when enough is enough.

Right now its Gumball that is filling my inbox. I made sure that all was under control for the rally, but once I realized that it was, I started looking at what else I could do to make things better. 

This usually creates great results but I would love to be able to wake up without 40 new e mails and just be able to drink my coffee and chill. This is however not me so I guess I will have to deal with it and just try to be happier whit the results I create. (I am never ever satisfied)

Another person that seems to have a similar mentality is Alex Roy from Team Politzei (famous Gumball team), I think they have done an insane job when it comes to trying to navigate the right way and staying out of trouble and I am sure that he is also the kind of guy that is never happy! Getting on the phone with him today to get some good advice on what equipment to use when driving across the states! Stoked to hear his thoughs!

A pretty serious set up!

/JON

Got up at 4am this morning and flew down to MC,  since we arrived we have been stuck in bed watching the 2nd season of 24. Its by far the best Tv show I have seen, but thats not the only reason that I have been lazy in bed all day! My legs are so torn up from yesterdays gym session with Gustaf that I can hardly move as my whole lower body is beyond sore! Even though its super painful it feels great, stoked to go back at it tomorrow, full speed all week!

/JON

About to board a flight to Nice to go home for a week. As wether in Åre and Fonna did not look to good we decided that a week of dry land training would be a better plan!
Have been better than ever over the past 10 days with only one day off from the gym. Last night the level was however pushed way beyond what I have previously experienced.
Went to SATS Odenplan and met up with Gustaf. Usually I think I train hard but after the crazy program he put me through I now know what real training feels like!
For some reason I have a really hard time to do what people tell me to do and I usually prefer to train alone, but for some reason Gustaf is fantastic at finding that bit of energy that I did not know I had. Felt great!
I can already feel my legs and I think that walking tomorrow will be VERY painful!

Time to board!

JON

So I did not mange to stay away from the nightly temptations… I did however play it smart enough to stay very close to my "skinny bitch" all night. In the past I have stuck strictly to Vodka Red Bull but the past few times I have been out I have started to mix in a lot more "skinny bitches". Not the nicest name for a drink, but a Vodka water with lime really makes a huge difference the day after. So that is my morning advice today! Stuck on the computer for a few more hours before I head over to a Douchbag meeting to check out some new products and then off to the gym and a leg session with Gustaf!

/JON

Just came back from a tough one at the gym!  Met up with Gustaf Ollas for an upper body session, usually when I go by my self I try my best but with Gustaf I was pushed to a whole new level! So stoked to really start digging in and working really hard. At the end of the session he challenged me to a push up battle, I managed to do 1,5 push ups, dropped to my knees and than failed to complete on full push up. I can honestly say that I dont think my upper body has been killed this hard before! Working out with someone that REALLY knows what he is doing is such a huge difference!

Another session tomorrow with full focus on the legs, super stoked to work out with Gustaf, great guy to keep my focus and push my self ! (and realize that I am a skinny weak guy!)

Off to dinner at Berns, will try not to go out after but its been over 10 days since I last did anything unhealthy so the possibility of a little night out does exist!

/JON

Here we go again, new plans and more travel!

The plan for me was to stay 20 days in Folgefonna, but as the weather gods had decided it was still full winter there we had to drive straight to Åre as the snow would be to soft to train on. Once we got there it was almost the same thing, we did however get 5 very valuable days on the new skis and yesterday we did get soem great snow., snowing that the new skis are totally ok on hard snow.

After watching the weather forecasts in Fonna and Åre with lots of more snow coming we made the call that it would be better to focus the next 10 days on dry land training as that has a very high focus in my new plan. It felt great to not take this decision by my self but to do it together with the Swedish coaches. That way I dont feel bad about not being on snow as much as I had hoped for. I guess quality gets more and more important the higher up you get in the sport.

So the plan now is to do 2 training sessions a day for the next 10 days and give that 100% focus. Blasted down from Åre in the big black trooper  ( I LOVE this thing) and on Sunday me and Janni fly down to MC to get some sun and train a lot!

/JON

In two weeks we will be going to bed in NY with one hell of a week in front of us! So stoked that we this year have a car that sounds like a race machine! (Yes the Lambo sounds like a Prius compared to the R8) Team Storm Troopers will be going all in this year!

//JON

I am really getting into this "eat, sleep, shit, ski, train" schedule. Alarm is now moved back to 5am so I have time to work in the morning. I love when I have enough time to really move the day rhythm around so that I go to bed at 7pm, no chance for distractions!

Today the snow was super soft so I did a bunch of testing on the angles where i put up to 10 layers of duct tape to increase the angles. Seems to be working great but it was a bit soft to really tell!

So in order to make the most of the camp up here I am going to break out the SL skis tomorrow and start working on the shorter turns, perfect as the snow is a bit to soft to bang out good GS turns!

Me giving Calle the finger as he won my event and was paid 10 000€…

/JON