Today, prof. Klarlund and I appear in an interview in Politiken. It seems that the interview is not online (as for now) so you will have to buy todays Politiken newspaper to read it. The interview is about the forthcomming book, obviously.
You can purchase the book online at e.g. motionslob.dk
Monday, I had the pleasure to appear on live television in Denmark, namely in “Aftenshowet” (DR1) where Bente Klarlund and I talked a bit about running and a very tiny bit about our book “ELSK AT LØBE – med Maratonbogen“. If you missed it, see it here. It was great fun to be in live broadcast and the staff was very friendly and professional. Just great !
I have updated my “in the press” section with the link above and various other stuff from this year.
I have been so busy with the book the past months so normal duties have lagged behind. Thus, today I have updated stories for months back. I’ll post a few hightlights here from the larger races.
Firstly, I had a great weekend in August running my first dublet this year and celebrating my marathon no. 200. Saturday was at scenic Samsø…
… full story here and Sunday incredible Blokhus and marathon no. 200, full story here.
September was a rather poor month runningwise and I had to cancel several races due to the last tasks on the book projekt. Fortunately, time allowed participation in two great races, first Fjordmarathon (report here)…
and two weeks later the perhaps best organized race in Denmark, H.C. Andersen marathon in Odense, the only race that I have run in “all” my marathonyears since the start in 2004 (2010 story here).
Now, autumn is hitting Denmark badly and I think we were quite lucky to save an absolutely perfect and very nice race this past sunday in Greve, check it out yourself here (Sydkyst Fall).
I believe I am not alone with the wish for a warm and short winter, please greenhouse effect do your job in Denmark !
Some are vicious
some are fools
and others blind
to see in me
one of their kind
I see and speak from a point you will never understand. I see and speak with hinsights you should be happy not to ever know. I see and speak from the dark.
Let me give you a glimse. Aged 27 my mother commited suicide. I was 3 years old. Turbulent times followed to put it mildly, as this crime left my father and the rest of my family devastated, no wonder. Aged 7, I witnessed the death struggle of my father, dying 31 years old to a heart condition. This loss came as no surprise, I had “seen” it happen weeks in advance. It was a logical consequence of events. I was “deported” to a loveless fate at a hostfamily in another part of the country and this misery went on for 5 years. Then came almost 7 years on a boarding school, a times a very rough affair with both physical and mental abuses, not in the sexual sense, but still. It wasnt too easy.
All these years I had only one person left to bury – my beloved grandmother. It is now two years ago that I did. I dont think anyone can grasp the consequences of all this, of being the last in the entire family tree. Grasp what kind of feelings I have dealt with. Grasp the enormity of being totally alone in the world. Historically, it can be compared to the survivors of World War II, many of these, by the way, commiting suicide by the burden of their losses. But I hate the concept of being a victim and I ask for no mercy. I just find myself on a special path and find it hard to take many of the “dramas” of the ordinary man too seriously. I am on another scale.
So why live ? It is indeed a very relevant question ! Answers… we all have our own. The interesting thing is whether we have constructed our opinions ourselves or just live by the conventions, by the expectations of our family and partners, and whether we have the courage to live and act accordingly to who we really are and what we really feel. Let me tell you this: everything else is absurd ! You will be under ground soon enough.
Yes, so why not live ? Why not take the risk of being yourself and to accept the consequences. Why not address the important issues in your life and leave the less important behind. Living by fear is a waste of time and life… and we are only here for such a short time anyways. So go for the things you love ! Because love is the light in the dark, and there are so many things to love indeed. For me, running is one of them.