Karl Tiselius: cycling

About this blog

This blog is mainly linked from karltiselius.com, my new web portal.

Since I've now moved to Switzerland, I will start to write all in Swiss-German, ...no, just kidding, but I think it's better if I try to start writing in English instead of Swedish at least. My old blogs here are most in Swedish, but for the curious (that don't understand Swedish) there are now sites or even web browsers, like Google Chrome, that can translate pages for you.

At the very first beginning of my blog history (started 2007), I was actually a web design student in Kalmar, and the purpose was to develop a own flashy websites. I then choose to start with making a first portal including a news flow regarding my adventure, daily life and not at least athletic career, I also developed a photo gallery, further links of interest etc. Some months later, services like "Blogger" and "Picasa web" came and I realized that I could use services like that instead of developing and coding HTML/CSS on my own. I ended my studies as web developer, worked a year and then made a comeback in the studies within Industrial Engineering and Management instead.

This blog is somewhat egocentric, but also a bit thinking outside the ego-box, and I aim to share pictures, videos, texts and links in a somewhat chronological order. The purpose is to picture my values in life and way of living, tell you readers what's going on right now and make my route choices in life a bit more public. The aim is to inspire.

After reading some of my blogs, one can conclude that I'm really pushing on the gas in life. "Crazy" some may think about some things that I do, but hopefully it inspires some to live a bit more, every day. I enjoy life and hope you do the same!

Monday, 26 February 2018

Personal update(s)

Long time since last post. More than one year has passed and I already started and finished working for Sandvik. When it comes to the relationship Marie and I was simply not right for each other and after enjoying being single for some time I fell for the woman of/in my life; Louise Balkén! (She is simply WOW!!) We live happy together, in a rental apartment, both our hometown Falun. As of 1st of March we both(!) work for Landstinget Dalarna, she as a "Facilities Strategist" and me as a "Process Owner Logistics". Let's make Landstinget Dalarna great again ;)

Officially Louise and I moved together the 1st of December, but I lived in Louise small apartment in Falun already far earlier that this autumn (2017) and enjoyed every second. We are really a good match (and "team"!) and even if we are not afraid of conflicts we do not seem to fight over anything at all. Let's find out if this is good or bad... ;-) When it comes to sport I'm still doing a lot of them, but for 2018 I decided to preliminary focus on road cycling. Both Louise and I invested in new road bikes and we are both performing very well on Zwift.

New Canyon bikes in October 2017 and we directly took the chance to ride these - awesome!

Last year I completed an Ironman, but also the first ever Swimrun Orienteering race, called LostWater Race, (held in Stockholm) and the biggest happening of 2017 a charity race called "Klassikern X-treme" together with 12 other enthusiastic and passionate athletes. Link to our fundraising page at Cancerfonden here, an article about it here and a short impression video here.

The participants and supporting crew members from this epic challenge and event. All 13 participants managed sub24 hours! Louise (under the 200000 SEK check) was our great Social Media Manager!

The year 2016 was okay, but 2017 was fantastic. Going from tiered of work and Switzerland, and then also realizing I jumped in to a wrong relationship, I solved it all well taking a year at Sandvik, living in Gävle. The role as Project Manager for Logistics and my apartment there was just awesome, but my heart for Falun is beating hard all the time. Getting together with Louise and spending a fantastic vacation time (road trip) to Norway made it all clear: Time for a new chapter in life - again!

My homepage is a bit updated. Not sure I will update the content soon though...

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Lanzarote (Ironman training camp)

Coming back to Club La Santa was a dream comes true. I was here in 2006 (I think it was that year at least...time flies). This time I went here with my IKEA Supply AG colleague Jens Nielsen and we are both training for an Ironman (the one in Copenhagen - 24rd of August this year) so what would be better than participating at a perfectly arranged "long distance triathlon camp" at this time of the year to kick start the triathlon training season.

Club La Santa! I love it here and then of course when it comes to (hard) training. For relaxation and/or romantic holiday there are other places on the canary island that I recommend (this still in fresh mind). I saved all the gps data from my trainings on Strava so you can find the sessions an see my performance during the week here if you check between 25th of February and 4th of March. To summarize it was close to 30 hours of triathlon training (swim, road biking and/or running) during these 6 days on the island, meaning almost 5 hours a day - and it went perfectly fine! Great living in a suite, healthy food and great mix of trainings (3 times a day and only 2 times on the "resting day").

After the training camp we came home in a really good shape, energetic and super fit. I'm really impressed about how well Jens managed to push all the way through the training camp in a professional way - starting with doing this level of sport first in last year - it is truly impressive.

Here are some top 10 photos (for more photos click here) and again I prefer to let the photos talk (it is optional to watch the photos with this Club La Santa song in the background):