Looks like I've been 2 days in a row in Folkebladet", which is a local newspaper for middle-Troms county.

On monday there was an article about Kjell Harald Horn and I. The title is very wrong since "Styrkeprøven" is very different race. Anyway, Kjell Harald and I got to know each other after we lost the lead group in the same hill during Tromskraftprøven in 2005. I guess we had exactly the same ml/min/kg at that time. We had to work together for a long time to catch up the remains of the lead group. He's had good progress over the last years, and I'm happy to see that he and others have now started a bike club called "Senja Sykkelklubb".

We got the same result back in 2005 and we also got the same result last saturday. I'm sure I'll meet him next year as well.

Tuesday the newspaper had an article about a woman that was furious about the bike race, since she had been driving a car behind all the riders for a long time without being able to get past.

I had commented on this, telling that the car drivers have to accept that the bikes owned the road for one single day in the year, and that there's no point in driving behind a bike race. Better to stop and take a cup of coffee. I would agree however that we could have announced the bike race better in the media telling car drivers to stay away from the roads at the particular time of the race. That might be a good idea for next year.