("Heja" is roughly "hurrah". We heard it a lot from the spectators.)

Official time: 3:40:59. Gun time 3:43:29, which means that it took 2:30 just to reach the start line. Big races are like that ( Read more... )

See my splits every 5k! Follow me on the course map ( Read more... )

Running in Stockholm is always an adventure. This time, it was an 8-ish mile run around Brunnsviken lake that turned into 12.5. See, the rule of "keep water to your right" did not account for the canal connecting the lake to the Lilla Värten fjord, and it was a couple miles further north before I realized that something had gone horribly wrong. Yes ( Read more... )

I'm also doing this thing on May 30th: The! Stockholm!! Marathon!!! Because I've got a business trip to my current favorite European city, which dovetails with this race, and IT! IS! IMPERATIVE! that I should do this race.

(Mostly from Tuesday 7/29.)

Katarina Church, seen through the rigging of Af Chapman (now a floating hotel).

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(Mostly from Sunday 7/27.)

Any objections to starting with bikes? Good.

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Okay, to heck with theme posts, let's just get this all out there. Here are a few things I saw on my early morning run. Since these are phone-cam pics, the file names contain timestamps, if you're curious about what 5am looks like vs 6:30am.

Nordiska Museet, Djurgården island.

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This is the first time I've stayed in a hotel room that had an artist's statement ( Read more... )

A small sampling of public art in Stockholm. I just spent a stupid amount of time trying to locate where most of these are in the city ( Read more... )

One of the problems with visiting such a visually-rich place as Stockholm is how to organize the buttloads of pictures into theme-posts, or narrative posts, or anything to get them in front of you. Yes, I could just dump them to flickr, and let you sort through them, but I prefer to curate them in some way ( Read more... )