…please come and run with me here.

Last time when I went to the Jack Rabbit running store the sales person went through all their shoes and still couldn’t find a single pair not made in China. I hate that and after my one year long shopping detox I don’t want to go back to bringing home stuff made in the far east. Today Ryan Huber at Context Clothing informed me that New Balance actually have factoriesin the US. Sorry Brooks, I still love you…but from now on I’m a New Balance girl.

Most fashion people don’t exercise. They don’t eat and they can’t move in their high heels. Anna Dello Russo only wear heels and only eat nuts and cherry tomatoes in her car in between shows (believe me I did a shoot with her all day yesterday), but she swims for an hour (will not book a hotel without a pool) and does yoga for an hour every single morning. She is not a runner, but deserves gold for her athletic lifestyle.

This blog is about a traveling runner, but I can’t put to words how much I appreciate running in NYC. Even at the most luxurious hotels in Paris they lack a proper treadmill and in my tiny swedish hometown the once they have at the swimming house are always occupied. I’m in heaven when I jet lagged enter Crunch at 6:00 AM and have access to a row of treadmills that works full speed and display laps, I can even watch CNN. I recently read that runners are simple people and can’t agree more. Happiness is the possibility to run.

I got back Saturday night and was in a shoot for a swedish fitness magazine Sunday.

Check in, run and stay awake.

The hotels in Paris aren't known for their gyms, at the Castille you can't even run full speed on the treadmill.

I will never take for granted the right to run after reading this book.

I’m spending a lot of time at the gym right now. New York City isn’t running friendly in January and a man even screamed ”as New York City isn’t crazy enough” at me when I tried to run in the snow last last week. In my preparation for big sur interval training is also my priority, something I after all prefer to do at the treadmill. I’ve already registered that fashion at the gym is pretty different from what people wear when they exercise outside (I’m not talking about the temperature aspect). The colors are brighter and the clothes are smaller, but jewelry is also surprisingly common. Last week I spotted a woman wearing a tight pearl necklace. I’m all up for dressing up, but wouldn’t recommend anyone to wear precious jewelry at the gym. After all there is a risk you could get choked by grandmas choker.

My first marathon challenge this year is Big Sur. May 1st is perfect, but the marathon also sounds very promising according to Bart Yasso at Runner’s World.

”If we were told that we could run only one marathon in our lifetime, Big Sur have to be it.”

A page in Runner’s World Sweden. Yes, I’m finally a runner according to Runner’s World.

I’m reconnecting with my roots right now. I’ve spent the last three days in my little hometown in Sweden. Not much is going on here and I’m finally resting after a very intense year in Rio, Paris, Milan, Reykjavik… I’ve been able to run on all my trips (except the post marathon road trip) and since I don’t want to loose to much of my shape and since it’s impossible to run on the snow covered streets I’ve tried cross country skiing. I realized I wasn’t doing so well when an old man looked at me with a funny face when he passed by. I don’t blame him, after all he walked faster than I was skiing. Yesterday I went to the gym and tomorrow I’ll do another 10 k there so I’m prepared for Friday’s food marathon.

Merry Christmas

Saturday I was picnicking at JFK with Paola, Affe and Sanna. Paola and Affe was on their way to Helsinki from LA and meeting at the airport didn’t seem too strange since the last time I saw them was in a Hollywood parking lot a few weeks back.
Paola who designed one of my running dresses gave me a yellow t-shirt that i took for a test run over the weekend. Yellow is great when it’s getting darker. I’ve already been hit by a bike this year and am now ready to do anything to be visible so I don’t have to visit an american ER again. Wearing a bright colored t-shirt on top of whatever you are wearing is a great tip and it can also be pretty cute.

Sanna, Affe, Paola and me