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nd cucumber i eat 2 plates of ham salami eggs and cheese align with the vegetables on offer 2 coffees go down a handful of hot chocolate powder sachets pocketed some fruit juice drunk and i m back to wash and pack packing doesn t take long but the slow breakfast means its approaching 10am before i finally get ready to leave more juice if needed and drunk the ladies behind reception let me checkout and one offers me a coffee for the road i decline explaining that it won t last long whilst i m running she laughs at the idea of the coffee going everywhere and then returns takes my hand twisting it palm up and places 3 chocolates into it i say thanks very much and get the reply vashe gud for the swedish or swedish speaking please ignore that spelling i say good bye and leave running feels easier today the 28km to koppaberg pass quickly i wander close to the brewery trying to get a tour but there no reception only the entrance and exit for the lories so i run into the centre and there is a restaurant dead ahead it would seem rude to come here and not drinks cider so i wander in cider ordered cider drunk i leave for the shop buying just enough for the morning i still have a stash of meat balls beetroot salad and gherkins to eat a group of locals sat in the main entrance give me odd looks and i just laugh back it s time to shorten the gap for tomorrow i m here early far earlier than i expected now i have just 7km to go before i reach tomorrow s end point at this rate i ll be almost two days ahead of my schedule legs feels good and i have the most lumpy ground to sleep on perfect camp spot picking by me i ll see if kirsten manages to find me i have my tracker on but there is no phone signal here if she doesn t i m sure the sandals will make their way back to johan now to try and find a reasonable position to sleep and finish the rest of my chocolate milk posted in adventure leave a reply oct 20th to 22nd recollection posted on october 25 2016 by progressbyaccident 2 sitting and deciding that seems to be the order of the day today with a few days of rain and colder weather ahead it seems important to make the right decision but what s actually happened over the last three days truth is i m not sure days blend it s just an ever flowing cycle of eat sleep and run now let me think oh yeah warmth a comfortable clinging warmth i had the best nights sleep ever warm followed me into the night surrounding and letting me sleep 4am and i m wide awake the moon is out and i pack using her light the ground is damp a sparkling sheen of moisture covers the inside of my tent broken in parts by the random meanderings of my two or three tent mates i pick the slugs off the tent inner and place them outside since i m awake it seems right to start the day with coffee and cake consumed the bag is packed the stops today are rättvik and then leksand no rush i start to run once the sun begins to make herself known rättvik appears the shop just opened and some food is purchased next is leksand i wander through the town looking for a place to have coffee and charge my phone all are shut so the phone is turned off and i head out watching an old man trying to collect a bottle or can from the displayed viking long boat next to the road for each bottle and can he collects he can claim money for food he stands looking at the boat s inner and then give up walking towards the nearest bin i try the local coop to see if they have a coffee machine and a place to sit and charge they don t and so it s the road for me not long and a hotel appears on the right i run for the restaurant grab a coffee and then spend 2hrs siping and charging my phone i go for another ready to pay is it a refill yes ok 10 krona for the chips no way i could have been drinking warm coffee all that time probably just as well though since the caffeine is making itself known as my arms and legs feel the jitters the run starts well leksand approaches and passes with a quick food shop i find out that the adventur wagon from now on named wagony mcwagon face has been delayed and so i can slow my progress not so much i can but i should arriving somewhere early only to have to wait is costly i will stop short of mockfjärd today is the decision as i pass leksand my legs decide it is time to rebel ache sets in tiredness heavy steps and an effort of will to move i find atrial and head to the water s edge a river fast flowing with clear waters i shouldn t drink this but i will i have no other water to drink a quick glance and i locate the perfect sleeping spot a flat area amongst the spruce the ground covered in a healthy layer of needles that make it softer than my mattress i eat i sleep the gentle whisper of the trees in the wind and the sound of the river gently beating the shore line the only noise to be heard i wake and legs ache it has been a few days since i ve woken with stiff and aching legs it s been decided that today is a slow day and so it is a slow march to mockfjärd slow and steady hopefully a place to stay when i get there to recharge the route along the road and then the cycle track was a quiet or no cars but a collection of old and disused cabins more tail than roads and i delight in it mockfjärd looms on the horizon and i join the kids on their way home from skola they either smile and wave or they look baffled and i don t blame them a bloke wearing ripped socks sandals a woolly hat beard and running with a big pack on his back i d be curious to know what he was up to or where he might be heading the shop at mockfjärd is small good enough for me and i buy little there is pizza across the road and i want something cooked warm food it s been ten days at least since the kindness of lisette continually fearing on cheap salami and lingonberry bread is at best a little boring food should not be different shades of brown i shop and step to the pizza place order food they question my order looking like it was more food than any man could possibly eat i repeat my order sit and wait it arrives a big plate of nachos and a late pizza ok i admit i only really managed the nachos but i had time to charge my phone my portable battery however is dead it refuses to charge and so i send an email to anker asking for some sort of resolution to my probelm there is no real solution other than try a new cable and get a replacement but the temporary and pointless moan feels good although somewhat empty meal done i leave rocking the hobo style with a shopping bag and a buzz a box i will walk and find a trail to sleep near legs scream at me with fatigue i start the usual moans they are followed by the statement no you re not your legs still move stop talking nonsense and move more more cabins appear in fact i d say more holiday homes as they are far too lavish to be cabins i have a look at the first what a great place to have a home on the shores of a lake away from the noise of towns and in amongst the trees further ahead another cabin this one is boarded up property is important here further north they seem more open to people doors unlocked no fences here it is different this belongs to me stay out is the message at most properties and there is nothing to say it is wrong just seems to highlight a potential change in mentality to me the ground next to this cabin is perfect flat soft enough for pegs but hard enough for them to stay the wind is increasing in strength and i will get cold if i wait any longer tent is up quickly i m in and clothes are changed the pizza is almost completely devoured the sun s light is almost extinguished and it is time to sleep the wind shakes my tent and the waves from the lake lap against the shore making amusing noises i hear the fall of an eagle owl and smile it s hard to live outdoors at times but it has rewards i wake left over pizza is breakfast sleep interrupted by lady winter and her cold fingers my own fault for not getting in my sleeping bag soon enough it insulates it doesn t provide warmth i have an even shorter day today 20 km and i reach grengarde another shop and having seen the map a potential hotel i will head there get a room and dry kit recharge batteries and legs there is a long road ahead and there is no need to destroy myself all is kept in readiness for the last two weeks then there will be nothing to lose and all to gain as i run it begins to snow small flakes fall mixed with the golden yellow leaves of the birch around me hello lady winter i say out loud with a smile hold out my hands and watch the flakes land and slowly melt into my old ripped gloves there s no point in denying that i like the winter that i enjoy the feeling of the worth that follows a cold morning s start and run i feel it quickly as i stop and i run again yet another walk day spooky by the joy that the landscape around me brings i run towards grengarde reachin nyhammer quickly there is something to be said for walking with rhythm sadly i seem to forget what it is every time and run instead there is walking amongst the running but i am yet to complete a day where there is no running at all i reach grengarde and in to the shop i go i purchase little i am focused on the hotel with drink and snack i run to the hotel entrance found i go in the smell is wrong i appreciate this sounds odd spend enough time outside and you become more aware of smell and sound they become useful suddenly more useful than living the normal life the place seems deserte two young boys one staring at his phone watching something in arabic the other just staring at his phone i wander to what looks like reception a wall of glass covered in printed notice after printed notice some arabic others a mix of swedish and english i read them the fire alarm is for emergency use only if you set it off when not needed the internet will be turned off for two days please let us know when you leave here so we can tell migration services where you have gone to this hotel is being used as a refuge what an odd thing at the same time what a great idea for a hotel that is likely to have no customers at this time of year back to ica to buy food a return to the hotel and a purposeful entrance i spotted the plug socket the first time i came in so i sit at the chair next to it phone is plugged in and charges i sit and write in my journal it is the only reason i can recall this tale in order a store of information learning but more importantly a way to help make sense of things without it i would not know that i am existing by simply surfing the ripples of decision i make now back to the recollection i sit for 2 hour shift unoticed something i ve practiced for a while the art of hiding in plane sight suddenly the door i sit near opens swings towards my face and stops before any contact is made it is a signal i heard by my ears but loud enough for people from buildings outside to hear and pour into the dinning room the most i get is a hello and i am tempted to go in and chance my luck at some food if this is a refuge then what i m tempted to do is wrong on a deep level so i remain seated 99 charged the number of people drops as the dinner hall closes i grab my pack and leave following the road towards my next spot again a trail off the road provides the chance of a camp spot and my legs are starting to complain less than ideal but it is sheltered from the wind the sound of it deafening i am in my tent eat a piece of chocolate and drift off to sleep i know i will wake cold i feel the dampness in my clothing and my sleeping bag tomorrow i will find shelter and dry everything again it will rain soon and likely to rain for a few days best to get as much sleep as possible and do what is needed tomorrow there are short days ahead and i m a day ahead of y schedule still posted in adventure 2 replies oct 19 mentality sabotage almost posted on october 21 2016 by progressbyaccident reply sleep was broken cars lots of cars a dog barking many dogs barking throughout the night all served to keep my slumber in tatters i got myself out and packed by 7 still dark but just enough light to see and follow the track into the village and straight out on to the main road not far to furudal and food after over an hour i check the map to see how much further i left in good time so i would get to the shop for opening annoyance begins to gnaw at me i ve covered 4km in over an hour the slowness of yesterday persists and something something is grabbing at the part of me that i ve freed and tries to pull it back the general sense of good mood is on the verge of being defeated i try to pick up the pace but the mind isn t the calm it has been there are ripples of discontent like the shattering of a mirror still lake by the gentlest of breezes then a statue of an old man catches my eye and i m intrigued by the swedish tendency towards small dioramas and statues as part of their garden displays less than a kilometre and an even bigger one the statue at the entrance to a holiday park a scattering of cabins different sizes and designs and all behind the figure of a man sat with arms outstretched and the expression akin to thunder on his face this amuses me why isn t he smiling surely it d be more welcoming than that grim face i stand next to its leg and get a picture of myself with it then decide to wander in and see if the reception is open there may be chance of electricity i get closer and electricity is a given but anything else is not the reception is closed an old man cycle passed then returns then cycles passed i plug in my portable battery start to get out my cooking equipment to make a coffee a van pulls up out comes a elderly gentleman thick trousers and thick coat woolly hat glasses perched on a gently weathered face aiding a set of blue eyes he asks something in swedish and i reply that i don t speak swedish why did you just do that in english runs through my head but he says he speaks some english and asks what i was after i m just having a break before i move on having a break i don t understand having a quick rest quick rest ok hold on he opens he reception tells me to go in calls someone and speaks to them then explains its his wife who speaks better english while he was on the phone i translate my sentence into swedish on my phone i take the phone to speak to his wife explaining that i was just going to sit outside for a while and rest before moving on he read my translation and then shows he understands now with a smile and a knod i pass the phone back he says a few words to his wife and the phone is put away we go outside and i ask if i can make a coffee there which he says i can i offer him some but he says no thanks and wishes me a safe journey after telling me the trail way to furudal only a short trail but better than the road i sit to make coffee and a lady wanders passed asks me where i m from where did i start and where am i going i explain and she wishes me a safe journey after asking if i m sleeping outdoors and telling me that it s cold this...