Bergen City Marathon 2017 (5 km)

So a couple of months ago i signed up for Bergen City Marathon 2017 for the 5 km run :D It's something i've always wanted to do, but i haven't done before =p

My plan was to train for it, but i got kinda depressed and lazy so that didn't happen. So with barely any training, and eating lots of junk food (cookies ftw xD), i thought i would end up like half an hour after the previous one passing the finish line and that i would walk the whole way xD

It was perfect weather! =D Sunny with some clouds and medium temperature =D I was dressed in tights and a thin sweater =p

We had some warming up at the starting area, doing different exercises. I got out of breath and pain in my stomach and even managed to fall, so that wasn't a good sign for the 5 km running that was coming up xD

We were about to start and i went in the back, expecting everyone to storm off in front of me xD So when we started most people around me were walking. And we were kinda many people also so i walked too. The real start wasn't until later anyway, but after a while before the real start i figured it would be too stupid to walk so i started jogging =D That went kinda fine so i continued jogging =p And continued xD And continued xD So i jogged the whole time except for uphill because i didn't want to be completely exhausted from uphill running, and because the people in front of me were walking and it would be stressy for me to run in front of them xD The path was kinda flat also with not many uphills, only like two or so, and the uphills were small =D

Seems i had overestimated the condition and speed of other people, and underestimated my own speed and endurance, since i noticed i ran past people. Some people also ran past me, but i ran past more people =D I give credit to my vegan powers, going from zero to hero it felt like =D

So after running for a shorter time than expected (32 minutes 12 seconds!!!) i reached the finish line!! =D And i also wasn't super tired!!! =D I had jogged pretty slow but consistently, because i didn't want to go all out and end up dying in the middle of the road xD (some people were actually dying in the middle of the road! =o). I also didn't know how much energy i needed to save for later, so i figured it was better to have too much energy at the finish line than to not reach the finish line because of exhaustion =D

I was kinda surpriced at how quick i was xD my estimated time before i started was 1 hour xD so it was cool to finish in a bit more than half and hour and to actually jog almost the whole way! =D

After reaching the finish line i got some orange pieces and water there and then i went with my parents to get something to eat. I wanted a burrito from Los Tacos because that sounded healthy haha xD It was very yummy! =D

It was fun to participate in a race so i wanna do that again! =D 5 km is the best distance for me atm, since i don't practice or anything, and my endurance is bad xD I actually signed up for another race tomorrow! BDO-mila 5 km =p That one is in the forest and is quite nice =D I joined it last year also =D I hope the weather won't be too bad though =p I expect to run the distance slower than in Bergen City Marathon because of more uphills, but it' only for fun anyway and the most important for me is to have fun and reach the finish line and not to run superfast, even if i eventually want to be able to run 5 km in less than 30 minutes! =D

Fire at my work!! (like 2 weeks ago cuz i'm the slowest blogger ever... xD)

So Saturday 7th May at 6:30 or so i got awakened by my boss calling me, telling me there wouldn't be work that day because there had been a fire at work. Kinda sucky because it seemed like it would be a good day at work with many costumers, and now we would have a lot of disappointed costumers instead. I chatted a bit with a collegue about who could have done it, and what the damages might be. Would everything be burned down, could we sell the tiles, and was it an angry costumer setting the shop on fire, or just a random person? Later it was also updated about the fire in the local newspapers, BA and BT. I biked over there later that day to see the damages myself. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, it was mostly between the container and the back entrance, and the roof that had burned. I biked a bit longer trip since it was nice weather and i had nothing else to do before i headed home.

The day after (aka Sunday) i biked to town, went up Fløyen, over Vidden to Ulriken (mountains) and down, and back to where i had parked my bike before i biked home. It was nice weather and actually warm (20+*C!!) so i wore minimal with clothes, and ended up getting sunburnt (quite much!) even though i wore sunscreen. This lead to me not being able to enjoy the sun for the following days because i didn't wanna increase the damage to my burnt skin. I also started having pain in my left foot after this trip, that lasted for almost 2 weeks! I'm luckily better now, but i haven't been able to exercise much now because of that, and it didn't really help the healing with all the walking at work either. My sunburnt is also better now so now I can enjoy the upcoming warm and sunny period that will start now. This time i'll try being more careful though.

Monday we were still closed because the ensurance company had to take a look at the damages, but tuesday we were asked to come to work. We were still closed, but served costumers and answered the telephone, while some people walked around and looked at the damages and how to reduce the ash amount in the air and stuff. Luckily, nothing inside the shop got damaged, only the items in the container outside. We noticed it was bad to stay long inside. We started to suffer from the air inside the shop, so we tried to stay outside. Later we had to remove the container and the contents because it was kinda burnt and broken. The different components on the pallets (wood, cardboard and tiles/stones) had to be separated, which was kinda sucky, because it would have been way easier to just send away the whole pallet with everything on without having to seperate them first so it was a lot of work, but at 16 we could leave :)

Wednesday we opened up the shop like normal again, but closing at 18 instead of 20 because they would try to improve the air in the shop by gassing it or something. They also had installed lots of fans to increase air circulation to get out all the ash, so eventually the air got better, day by day, and now the air quality is good again. After that we kept our usual opening hours. There seems to be a bit fewer costumers now though. If that is because of the fire and people being unsure if we are open or not, or if it's because of other reasons i don't know, but hopefully we will have many costumers in the future :D

Lille Taste of Indian

I finally got my drivers licence now yay :D (8 years after i could have had it :x)

The driving exam went pretty good, so thats great =p To celebrate me and my family went out to eat at an indian restaurant in Bergen called Lille Taste of Indian, located in Marken =p

I ordered the dish called Degree Channa, with chickpeas, mushrooms and curry sauce. It was served with rice =p They other ordered non-vegan food. It was yummy and had a spiced taste, but without being spicy. I would have liked it a bit more spicy though, but then again I'm kinda unfamiliar with indian food, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to be like xD Think I'll try something different next time though, because it was yummy, but not superyummy for my taste =p

It was a quite cosy place though, and the woman serving us was wearing an indian dress or sari or whatever it's called that was very pretty =p

We had a nice time together, and I like to go out and eat and test out new places and dishes, so I hope we will do it more in the future =D