There is not much I can say about last weekend that you don't already know. Perfect weather. Pretty dry in the forest. What could possibly go wrong? And for once I made it through a weekend without breaking any parts on me or my MTB. On Saturday I did the rest of that Kåsjön runt trail and I have to say it was pretty useless for training on afterall. I define a 'good trail' as one where I can spend most of my time actually on the bike and moving. The section towards the western edge of the lake was just a repeated mess of rocky cliffs so about all I could do was run with the MTB. Not easy. Some parts were so crazy that they had installed ropes next to the trail for you to hang on to and pull yourself up. So again I had more upper body training than I would have liked.

There were some sections that were fantastic and others which would have worked if I were in better technical shape. But these parts were surrounded by too many walking bits so I unfortunately can't give this a top score for långlopp training. I need to be moving. But for those of you out in the forest for pure pleasure, this might be a fun one for you.

However, the first part from the beach over to where everyone has their canoes parked is heaven so that will soon form a nice part of my usual hill training route.