http://www.paulrosenquist.com 'Boat feeling...' Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:55:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it has been rather quiet here the latest weeks. The reason is that I am up to my elbows into a new thing now. It is the archipelago raid. A six day nonstop catamaran race from Stocholm to Finland and back again. Berotec our partner that sponsored the boat ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/newest-project/2008/06/05/ Well, since we have this hugeliy ambitous plan to sail the Archipelago Raid next month, I better get started to learn how to sail the Tiger. Not at all as easy as I expected. Well, I actually thought it would be rather hard. I put a message out on the ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/lesson-1-how-to-tame-the-tiger/2008/05/04/ With huge bad consious I finally decided to update this site a bit. So much has happened and is happening that I will have to do it in several steps. Dont even know where to start...Louise and I have been up to Kiruna (extremely north Sweden) and tried to winter ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/what-the-hell-is-happening-here/2008/04/30/ I will try to sketch a drawing of how it is to participate in one of Sweden's biggest folkfests. Somewhere halfway, note the awesome sunshine, no hat, rolled up sleeves, rolled down rowing suit, and grin on face... Imagine, the London tube at 07:30 in the morning. Kind of crowded and ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/ur-spar/2008/02/25/ My challenge for this weekend, on my quest to Swedishness... Ok, when I moved to Sweden 6 years ago I figured that the only way to sort of become like a local was to do the Vasaloppet. A 90km cross country ski race in Dalarna. I bought ski's and even roller ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/finallyswedish-2/2008/02/21/ http://www.paulrosenquist.com/plans-for-julaug-2008/2008/02/21/ Friday after work David picked us up at home. We threw our skis and two mammoth bags into the little Alfa and headed of. 6 hours of driving through fog, darkness, ice, snow and forest brought us to Idre. This place is just like any other small town in Sweden. ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/gone-skiing/2008/02/12/ Fed up with this bloody dark, wet, windy and warm winter. This week I felt something has to change. Sitting on ergs after work is just to depressing. So, more running and paddling. Been running to work this week. A nice route along the lake and over Hagabacken. I nice ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/commuting/2008/02/08/ Can't really help to be really taken by what is happening at the other side of the world. While I am just training mostly easy long distance stuff, Lassi probably is skiing through the forest, Olaf Tufte is skiing in the Alps, and probably everybody else is also doing like ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/golden-olympic-dreams-rob-waddell-drysdale-rowing/2008/01/28/ Last eavening we gathered a happy bunch to go running on Haga backen. A 70 meter high slope at the other side of the lake where we live. Louise, Ruairi, Roland, Britta, Nick and I wobbled of from our front door at 18:45. 20 minute jog later we were at ... http://www.paulrosenquist.com/hill-running/2008/01/25/