Lisa Norden

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Grown up in a smaller Swedish town I was the typical horse girl who was good at sport. I rode my bike everywhere (most times quicker than the bus) and learnt about hard work and responsibility in the stable. I wanted to go places with my competing but with limited finances horseriding proved to be a difficult venue.

In the summer of 2000 I rode my bike to Italy together with my mum. The day she turned 40 we put our feet in the Mediterranean having been on the bike for 19 days, most of these in a heavy rain... I had an old steel bike 5 sizes to big, gears down on the frame and bags attached both front and back. It did the work, but I can't say I was sold on the sport.

The turnaround was a few weeks after the return to Sweden when I signed up for a local triathlon event in my hometown. I had to breastswim all the 400m in the pool and was 2nd last out of the water... With a solid bike base in my legs I managed to overtake a whole bunch of people and win my age group.

Another year down the road my horse got injured and I made the decision to learn to swim and put some more time into my own training. This paid off and in 2002 I won the Swedish Junior Champs, the Nordic Junior Champs and qualified for Europeans. FUN! Finally I found a sport where you get rewarded for your training and commitment , not by the size of your familys wallet. ]

I still have all my family and friends back in Sweden. The horses are swoped for dogs but my mum is still active and have done three IM's since the cycling trip to Italy.

I'm currently based in Australia training with Darren Smith, my coach since 2007. I'm living the dream, riding my bike and training hard day after day. My ultimate goal is to found out how good I can be and how fast I can get.

The challenge will be to time this with the day if the triathlon event in London 2012...

Getting the ball rolling...

June 10, 2010

The last month has been different.

Normaly by this time I'm well into racing. I have had a couple of decent results and heading up to the mountains ready to take it to the next level.

Not this year. As I said. Different.

The race is Seoul was below par.

Much because I haven't been able to run as much as I needed to in training. Reason?

Something wrong with my left leg, or most likely the nerves controlling it.

Even with multiple weekly physio appoinments and various treatments nothing really seemed to help.

After Seoul I went back home for two nights before continuing down to Germany and my bundesliga team "Asics Team Witten". Two short very succsessfull team races with both individual wins and team wins. Training started to go a bit better, but still the fast running in the races seemed to take me back a few steps each time.

I had a decision to make.

Did I still want to race Madrid?

Or should I take my name off the list and go back and see the swedish physio team?

As I'm still in the early stages of the season so I decided to go back home. Instead of boarding a flight to Spain I spent a full day in Stockholm getting screened and sleeping myself through an MRI.

Lots of travel, but still not feeling much closer to a solution.

Still a lot of question marks and "try this and see if it gets better".

Nothing black or white, and the straight answers as I was hoping for.

Until the MRI results came in on the monday.

A slipped disc was causing me the troubles.

It was disturbing the nerves running down through my legs. Stopping me from running fast and doing the volym I needed to.

Might sound a bit funny but it was such a big relief! To know exactly what was going on.

Now nowing the cause of the problems it will be easier to work my way through it. Another good thing they could tell from the MRI was that it seemed to be on it's way to recovery. Which goes well in hand with the fact that I have been able to run more the past three weeks.

It is looking brighter for ms Norden!

I have now made my way down to the Swiss mountains and the tiny town of Davos. It's the third time I'm back here and it is starting to feel like a home away from home. Things normally goes well up here. Race results normally improves. Great fitness normally occur.

Lets hope I finally got the ball rolling.

And that the 2010 season will turn out like "normal"...

Stats for Lisa Norden are coming soon.
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