29 december Öjesjön

The ice at Öjesjön is now checked for this seasons first time. 18 km we were 7 persons 5 of us were leaders. Two of the leaders who have the most experience of ice in our club said that I´m now officially "authorized" as a leader, so I was a little bit proud after today. Nice weather, sunny and a nice black, hard ice with only a few potentially bathplaces. The others went on to Storsjön, but I and 2 more went home, so today I also went for shopping in the town, not only outside at the ice.

Sigma 310km this season until now

28 december Storskälsjön

In the lead today, a group 4. Some snow on the ice so we had to work out harder than usual. Surprisingly we got some blue sky, unfortunally when the sun was so low that it hardly was over the trees. Nice group of 14 people divided in two groups with coffebreak at the same place. A nice day although it started with 1 cm snow. I hardly believed that it was snow, somehow I´ve lost faith in a winter with snow and skiing, instead I go orienteering in the woods and iceskating.
37 km

27 dec Vikarn

Nice ice at Vikarn, new, hard and black. I´ve no idea how long the trip was, so say mayby 7 km if i count low.

26 dec storskälsjön

Me and M went to Storskälsjön, we skated through Storskälsjön, Björnbaljen, Dammsjön, Plåtviken and back again. Some snowlike thin overlay at the ice gave our legs a little bit more resistance. A wonderful day. 40 km. When we started around -1 grade Celsius and at the finish about +2 grade Celsius so the thin snowcoated surface of the ice started to melt down... Hopefully we get som degrees below zero again and we can go there again. A little bit windy too so today I actually got tired. A lot of things where it was possible to take a Christmasbath if I hadn´t been aware and fully concentrated.

23 december Mingen

About 10 km at Mingen, it was like magic! We couldn´t see the ice far from our feet because of water on the ice, but instead it actually was like walking on water!...:-) Me, M and R was out, the rest didn´t finish all preparation for Christmas yet, so they couldn´t find time for this magic trip.

Happy X-mas!

17 dec Started in Dammsjön

We started in Dammsjön, took the southern shore out to Björnbaljen and further on to Stora Skälsjön. When the ice got thinner we shifted shore and took the other shore back. A nice round, about 33 km today. I putted yesterdays GPS-track at skridskonätet. Hope to do the same with todays. We were 6 people today. At some places the ice was to thin for iceskating, on one of these places I was like half a second from wrong decision... but I turned in right time because I saw that water was coming in to the lake from the woods. It´s always thinner ice at such places!

16 dec

Storvallsjön one more time with E and M, this time in a very nice weather. We did two laps around the lake. 31km, with a higher speed than we mostly have in the club with group four.

10 dec

Eksjön 31 km M was at home, really funny when we went faster in a smaller group. Eksjön one lap, Kroksjön one lap with coffeebreak, and Eksjön two more laps.

9 dec

StorVallsjön foggy and rain, about 18 km

2 december -Eksjön

I was leader for a group 4 with 10 people. The sun was standing very low and because I´ve been skating there yesterday I held a pretty high speed. Baaam there was a new "råk" in the ice and I fell pretty hard as I can feel in my neck and elbow today. Nothing realy broke but I´m soar today.
A nice day in Paradise with sun around 35 km together with the group and some more 5-7 more afterwards. The battery in my GPS was again empty! The sun, though it was low gave some warm cheeks during the coffebreak and I honestly think it was the first day for a month I was outdoor and the sun actually wasn´t behind cloudcurtains. Nice day! Nicest was that M was there too, so we did something nice together.

1 december-eksjön

I and E went to Eksjön with two other leaders M and M. Approximately we tested 17 km of the ice, some of it had doubleice and we found an open area.