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Back to the Winning Path

19/4/2024

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Back to the Winning Path

Now I had to trust my inner power to guide me back to the winning path.

Mid-September 2022, after a few days back home I took my crutches and by train I went to an Event in Malmö, …

… catching up a brilliant weekend with collegues and friends. Nothing was allowed to stop me.

For me there were mixed emotions when standing there on the stage with my crutches among others to be congratulated as a Nourish the Children Ambassador. An initiative helping starving and malnourished children around the world.

Back home a long journey started with rehabilitation and hard trainings. Each day clearing my head, getting a few more kilometers day by day under my feet. And for sure I embraced my little world there walking among the paths in the forest.

June, 2023

It´s all about to take the moment to be grateful for the New Day and all the positive things it brings. You will always find the light in the darkness. As long as you only compare with your limits, and no one else.

December 2022, my first power walks without crutches…

Finally the day was there, exactly one year later, to get my revenge from when everything went wrong, to step on that rolling stone with a misstep as a result.

The Best feeling in the whole world, …

… when standing there on the top after six hours climb upwards in mixed snow and rain (described in blog 1, March 8th 2024).

Followed by a steep downhill hike, which we thought should take us max. two hours, but ended up by another six hours as the darkness fell and hiking over stones and crossing streams with headlamps.

Sometimes the feet said No - but the head said Move On.

At last we reached the Abisko tourist station at 01.30, luckily open. Can you imagine the happy feelings for this moment, to embrace the warmth and proudness of a completed Challenge? Can you compare that with any of your personal challenges?

Luckily a friendly taxi driver could take us back to our hotel, for a well earned nice sleep and enjoying the best birthday ever later that day. Couldn´t be better to have been given such a birthday gift.

The best feeling of all this, is watching things finally fall into place after watching them fall apart for a while.

So thankful and I think how rich I am, based on my potentials. As far as my personal limits, my time is gold. So far: -wealth to me is health. I want you the same.

The junction, where the signs showed me I have finally reached my final destination of the red trail from Mt. Nuolja downstreams along ”Rihtunjira”, meeting the last 1 km on ”Kungsleden”. The King’s Trail, 2023. 👑 🥾💪

- En Ny Dag, 19th of April 2024.

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Your only limit is in your mind

5/4/2024

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Your only limit is in your mind…and now I had to handle with new challenges, to come back where I was before this incident. And imagine that you would be so happy for some crutches. Yes, they helped me to move on.

After leaving the Kiruna hospital with crutches in my hand we took the opportunity to have dinner in the Sapmi (Sameland), Nikkoluokta. It was like the end of the world and from here a hiking track could take you further to the Kebnekaise mountain lodge. That´s for another time.

Despite an injured knee, I could enjoy from the car a beautiful evening scenery back to the hotel with the most spectacular Northern Lights suddenly showing up. My first live experience with The Northern Lights. Just speechless and amazing.

Before heading home with assistance by my insurance policy we returned to Narvik. While waiting for the flight departure the staff at the Narvikfjellet Cable Car company assisted me to get onboard the cable car. Up on the mountain station, I could enjoy a beautiful view over Narvik and a little bit walk around with my crutches. A strange feeling.

Meanwhile my insurance policy arranged my home transport, which took a few days, I was accomodated in the nearby city Harstad, and along the highway Narvik-Harstad there are several memorials from the World War II.

Harstad is a beautiful little city along the fjord and as the hotel was next to the fjord, the morning view was when Hurtigruten passed by.

One northbound route and one southbound meeting each other.

My plan was to be in the Abisko Alps for hiking for a week, but the days waiting with an injured knee turned out quite nice. The Harstad-Narvik region, the entrance to the Lofoten islands, is very interesting.