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Today I have focused a lot on training and recovery. With sweetie. I follow the weather forecast, but it is not always that predictive. I could actually run today and that was a challenge due to a lot of snow. And ice. This week I bought something for my shoes so I will not fall. Could run in snow today.

This evening has been very snowy. There will be no sun tomorrow but I hope the temperature will be stable. My sweetie is very happy to go for a walk after my running. Always exciting. She is best!

Mentioned time yesterday. I think I will have a time of about 2 hours and 10 minutes. This is good for me. I have something exciting ahead.

Anna

No pharmacology writing tonight. It is Friday. I have been lazy writing, but that is because I don´t have much news to write about. Ok, I am boring sometimes. I feel ashamed about that. I admit.

Maybe I am boring because I focus very much on the Woman´s health running. I am in rather good condition but I would like to do the best I can. I am heading at a time about 2 hours. From today, I have two months.  The biggest challenge is that it is snow, cold and dark. This weekend I was going to run but since there is quite a lot of snow, I will go skiing. I think. Let´s find out tomorrow.

I must admit that I am very jealous of professional skiers, runners etc. That is why I sometimes follow sports TV news. So tonight I just recover. Waiting for tomorrow. What will weather be like?

Anna

Biology is a very vast subject. For me, biology is nature, including animals and eg flowers. However, with my background, biology is more focused on pharmacology. That is how different drugs interact with receptors and cause a physiological and/or behavioral change.

I am very worried when I read the news because politicians, with no whatsoever, biological knowledge try to get involved in research. They see things from a political point of view with no biological understanding. Pharmacology is very complex and that makes it very interesting. There are many things that are not understood but politicians think they understand. This scares me.

I would like to exemplify by one of the greatest discoveries for mankind. The discovery of penicillin 75 years ago. This lifesaving discovery has made a great impact and what would be interesting to find out is what problems has it caused? Resistance? Environmental changes? Lobotomi was also a great discovery, but that is nothing anyone would like to talk about today.

Politics is too much based on feelings and not on knowledge. There is so much research that has been done that can be implicated in daily life. Here, politicians have a great work to do.

Anna

I have continued my training with new focus. It feels good. I have now two months to prepare for Women´s health running. I have been a bit reluctant for out doors training but since there was no snow last weekend I tried and that made me remember. This weekend was cold. Some ice on the roads, but I put on some more clothes. I cannot have my sweetie with me when I run so I take her for walk afterwards. She loves this walk. I wonder what it is like being a dog. The world must be different since they have an extra dimension by the nose. She knows my tracks even if I am not at the same place. Funny.

Since this running is more (21 km) than last time (Hässelbyloppet), I think I have to try two laps next time. Just to try how it feels. Nature is beautiful now. No blueberries as you can see on the photo above. They are recovering and waiting for better time. The animals in the forest are hiding. Saw a deer and traces of rabbits.

To conclude, it feels very good to have spent time outdoors even thought it is very cold. Watched Kalla and Kallur on TV performing good skiing and running.

Anna

I have been able to go running a few weekends. Surprisingly. There will be some more snow, I am sure about that. But this has made me look forward. It is wonderful to feel fresh air and get some sun. So, to get some motivation I am going to join Women´s health running in April (Stockholm). That is about 21 km. Right now my training program is running for 10 km and then walk with my sweetie for 10 km. So please join!

Anna

I get so sad when the internet is not working properly. There seem to be some people finding it entertaining to disturb. So since internet did not work this afternoon I read an article about Lappish people in Dagens Nyheter. I get very sad and upset when I read about it because I have suffered a lot due to my Lappish background. The justice do not work in Sweden so I have suffered a lot. A lot. However, this article made me smile.

The article was about a fight between Lappish people and the Swedish government. It was about the rights to fishing and hunting. This was finally, after many years,  judged in favor to Lappish people, and it was also very good for so called “urinvånare” all over the world.

Tonight I went for training that I like a lot. I need to start to keep a strict diet. My policy is however if I go training I can have candy. When I need motivation I sometimes think of an animal and tonight I thought of horses. Strong, running horses. It is fun, you should try it!

Anna

Today has been a beautiful day. I put some old clothes on, and went for jogging. I was at my parents house. I have most of my clothes left there. To be honest, I find it very difficult to throw clothes. Or give a way. I put them in a box and I leave them there. I have memories connected to clothes. I suppose that is why I want to keep them. I like fashion a lot. I like following trends. However, most of my clothes are timeless so not so much fashion. But it is the fantasy of the designers that impress me. Creativity. Colours, type of material etc.

I follow the news as usual. Right now I read about a big scandal at Karolinska Institutet. About research. Something is fishy. I cannot say anything because it feels like I don´t have all information. But it is serious. Really serious. Because what is needed to be defined is “what is research?”. Research, according to me is to have a hypothesis (Professor Carlsson) to be tested by means of various methods. You have a result. Negative or positive. You make conclusions and suggest further research. And you have to publish your research so other researchers can refer to your findings. Yes, something is fishy.

Anna

Yes, it was very confusing for me to write in Swedish last night. So I better continue to write in English. To express yourself can sometimes be very difficult. To have a feeling and not be able to put words on that feeling.

Tonight is Friday. I just have an early evening. Taking care of myself. Preparing myself for tomorrow. To be honest it takes a lot of energy to always be on top mood. I rarely get angry or upset, to talk about emotions. And I like to smile. Have to remember my smiling campaigne. So a little something to eat and a good nights sleep will make me smile. A lot!

Anna