After two years we were finally able to celebrate a normal 17. of mai again! May 17th is the Norwegian national day and celebrated in all of Norway!
We started the celebrations in true NTNUI Friidrett fashion with our traditional run&swim. This means we started with a slow early morning run from Gløshaugen to Korsvika where we went for a quick swim. This was followed by some ice-cream to start of the day on a good note.
Then, we met for breakfast outside the Gløshaugen main building under blue skies where we enjoed delicious self-made bread, cakes and other treats while playing kubb.
Later in the day we joined the celebrations in the city center. Along with the rest of NTNUI we walked in the parade through the streets of Trondheim and not only celebrated Norway, but spread the green, yellow and black spirit of NTNUI.
The NTNUI main board had invited all of NTNUI for more celebrations after the parade in Dødens Dal, and of course NTNUI Friidrett was represented there. Together with the other groups of NTNUI we enjoyed endless amounts of hot-dogs and even more ice-cream in the sun.
Needless to say, Hjalmar (our mascot) joined in on all the fun! On the back of Fredrik, our leader, he joined the run&swim, joined the breakfast at Gløs, and, naturally, he was in the front row of our section in the parade. He even joined Dødens Dal to get his share of hot-dogs and ice-cream!
We’re ready for our group general assembly it will be on February 15th, in A2 in the Adolf Øien building. On the meeting we will elect a new board! And it’s a good look into how we run the club, there will also be pizza! Check the attachments below for the formal notice and case file:
Welcome back to a new year, and a new semester of running and fun with NTNUI Friidrett! We have already had our regular running schedule back on track for a week, but it is never too late to join us for some exercise and fun activities. So, whether you are a former member of the club, or brand new to running, feel free to join us for the coming days. Since it’s a new year you probably have some resolutions, and we hope to help you fulfill them with a week of training and fun!
Due to corona and the weather, changes are due to happen, so make sure to keep an eye on the Facebook event for the latest updates: https://fb.me/e/1COe8qdfx
Anyway, here is our plan for the week: Monday – Hour jog Our regular Monday jog is easy for anyone to join, as we have different distances suitable for any level of runner, ranging from 6km to 12km. Meet up outside of the main building at Gløshaugen at 18:30 to find your distance and join the run.
Tuesday – Morning jog Seize the day by getting up bright and early in the morning for a refreshing run. Same as Monday we are meeting in front of the main building, but today we will go at 07:00 instead. Depending on the turnout we will see if we need to split into more than one group.
Wednesday – Intervals Part of our regular weekly schedule, we meet at 18:30 outside of Spektrum at Øya to split into middle or long distance intervals. This week’s distances are TBD.
Thursday – Run-N-Swim A long standing tradition in the club is going for a cool swim after a good workout, and even though we mostly go from spring and throughout the summer, this week we will brave the January temperatures of the fjord. Meet up outside of the main building again at 18:30 for a jog down to Korsvika for a quick dip in the waters. Running is mandatory, swimming is optional. From there you can join us for a run back to Gløshaugen, or grab a bus from Lade.
Friday – Bring A Friend Friday Hjalmar is one of our most socially active members, as the club’s mascot. Once every month he joins or hill intervals to offer bananas for any new members of the running group, anyone who recruits someone new, or makes a new friend at practice. Join us at the main building at 16:30 for a quick warmup jog before hill intervals in the Rema1000 hill, and be rewarded with a banana.
Saturday – TBD We are hoping for better weather towards the weekend, and will update the plan as we get a clearer picture of the long term forecast. Skiing, outdoor fun and games, or BBQ is on the table so make sure to check back with our next update.
Our trainings will return as the semester starts with our first training now on monday 10.01.2022.
Due to the current restrictions in Trondheim, we have to split into groups of 20 during practice (you’ll select your group on arrival based on distance/intensity). So remember to stay within your group and keep a safe distance while running. There also won’t be any indoor trainings.
Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-situation it is important that you keep an eye on our active members group on Facebook to receive the latest information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2315427098530512.
NTNUI Friidrett wishes to invite all our members to this semesters group general assembly. It will be held tuesday the 2nd of November at 17:00 at the main building at Gløshaugen, room H3. Here you will get updated on past and upcoming events, meet the board and our committees, and discuss and vote over changes within the club and the master plan.Only NTNUI members with a valid wafer have the right to vote, and a case need 2/3rds majority to pass.As well as getting to hang out with us, there will be served pizza at the meeting so there really is no reason not to come.
Please click going on the Facebook event if you are planning on going:
Are you new in town and want to start running? Are you a professional runner or have you never ran a mile in your life? Are you a recurring member or a brand new student? Either way NTNUI friidrett is perfect for you, and what better way to get started than to join us in our Welcome Week. We have a ton of fun events planned for you and we hope that you’ll bring a friend and join us.
Keep in mind that due to the current covid situation changes could happen, so make sure to check out the Facebook event for details on each of the following events.
Hike to Geitfjellet (CANCELLED)
Sunday 29.08 12.00
We kick things off with a relaxing hike up to Geitfjellet and Kobberdammen. See Trondheim from a brand new angle in Bymarka, one of our closest large parks and nature reserves. The trip is a part of our collaboration with Activ Campus which is a campaign to highlight students mental and physical health.
In collaboration with Aktiv Campus we will of course have our usual Monday training as a part of Welcome Week. Joining this training will give you a tasteon how a regular old Monday is for a member of NTNUI Friidrett. We will jog for one hour and divide into groups depending on how far you want to run.
After a hike to Geitfjellet and a run on Monday, we could all use some relaxation and good food. Lucky for you we are having a tasteful BBQ in Høyskoleparken! We will kick back, relax, play some nice games and eat hotdogs or hamburgers. We hope to see you there.
We’re back on track with our usual training, this time with Wednesday intervals in collaboration with Aktiv Campus. We will be running on the track at Øya and just like Monday we will divide you into groups based on how far and how fast you want to run. We hope to see you there.
Do you enjoy running and swimming? Then join us for our run and swim! We will start at idrettsbygget Gløshaugen and run to Korsvika for a refreshing swim. Run and swim is a tradition here at NTNUI Friidrett and we hope you’ll participate in it.
We close out the week with a relay race in collaboration with Aktiv Campus. Join the team of your student association or just create your own team to do a relay race. There are prizes for both the fastest team and the best costumes and/or showmanship. More info about the relay race is available on the Facebook event page!
Hi! My name is Lisen, and I am a proud member of NTNUI-Friidrett. I am also a member of the board as the social manager and leader of the social committee. After speaking with the rest of the board, we decided that one of us should write a post about NTNUI-Friidrett and how we function as a social arena for all students and some of the social events that we will be hosting throughout the school year. Adding to this I thought I would share some of my own experiences being a part of NTNUI-Friidrett, and why I chose to join the team.
Svenn-Helge (head in command), Hjalmar (our mascot) and I at the 17th of May parade.
TRAININGS
Our weekly trainings are mainly every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (Facebook page for more info). Even though we split up into groups during the training, we always gather before and after running. This way everyone gets to talk to one another, even though we don’t always run together. We usually split into groups of long distance, middle distance and short distance, with every group having their own leader. I recommend trying out the different groups (long-, middle- and short distance). This is a great way to meet new people and expand your running skills 😉
SOCIAL
Besides training together we also arrange social gatherings and events throughout the school year. First up is the welcome week (23.-29.august). Welcome week is a tradition and an important week for us at NTNUI-Friidrett. During the welcome week, we arrange different activities every day and welcome both old and new members to Trondheim and to NTNUI. Other social events we will be hosting are the student relay race, beer mile, cabin trips, and parties. We also host smaller social gatherings such as long runs, breakfast runs, playing volleyball, game nights, and pre-parties. NTNUI-Friidrett is also known to participate in popular sports events and we have competed as a team in both Trondheim Marathon, Trønder Karusellen, Midnight Sun Marathon, Studentgames and in Student Championships.
One cannot talk about NTNUI-Friidrett as a social arena without mentioning our yearly trip to Spain. Usually, we go to Spain at the end of February/ beginning of Mars, and we start planning the trip in early November. We go to Spain to run, eat, relax and to have fun. With the pandemic going on you can probably imagine that the Spain trip this year was a bit different. We were lucky to go and made it home just in time before the borders to Norway closed. Spain is a tradition and a trip many members look forward to. Hopefully, we will be able to go next year as well.
WHY I CHOSE TO JOIN NTNUI-FRIIDRETT
When I first moved to Trondheim I tried out several NTNUI groups, before deciding that NTNUI-Friidrett was the right group for me. The main reason why I selected NTNUI-Friidrett is that I felt very welcomed by everyone in the group. I ran with my local team before moving to Trondheim, so I found joining a new team after I moved both scary and exciting. When I saw that NTNUI had an athletics/running group, I thought I would give it a try. I joined some of their pieces of training and I really liked that I could run and meet new people at the same time. I was happy to see that so many people with different running experience and goals could run together! Personally I have always been focused on performance when it comes to running. After joining NTNUI-Friidrett I have learned that running and training are much more motivating when you do it for fun and with others, and not just because you have to achieve something. Not focusing too much on performance actually made me improve my performance. I think what makes NTNUI-Friidrett special is their way of making everyone feel welcome – NTNUI-Friidrett = TEAM.
Ever wondered what it is like to be a part of NTNUI Friidrett, well I let you know.
Just meeting up at any given practice is the way to get to know the Friidrett folk. A hi and you are of in a conversation with another member of the group. As a newcomer to the group they made me feel very welcome because here everyone talks to everyone, here are no old farts only talking to each other. They even make an effort for the whole team to get to know each other by having “talk to at least one new person” during practice, what made me feel very included. Even though you might not be the greatest runner of all time, the Friidrett team still might be something for you. The team is diverse and has no demand on number of practices that you will have to attend. You just feel the welcoming feeling each time you show up, because even though it is a NTNUI sports team it always feels like a group of friends going for a run, with room for everyone elite runner or newbie.
Monday jog – more than just running
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This is the last article to summarize the
first semester of 2019. Even though the schoolyear was going to an end and people
was preparing for the final exam, we continued the trainings and runners from
the group was competing in races.
Olavsstafetten
The 1th of May, the yearly relay race “Olavsstafetten” was held. It consisted
of seven distances, from 300m to 1600m, with start and finish at Øya Stadion.
We signed up a team in the mix-class. They did a great job in the pouring rain and
even won the mix-class!
Podium mix-class Olavsstafetten 2019
Other races which people attended to from the
group during May was
May 14th: Tordenskioldløpet, 5km and 10km
May 15th: BDO-mila, 5km and 10km
May 17th : KM Langdistanse, 10 000m men
May 30th: Botn Rundt, 15km
17th of May
May 17th is the Norwegian National
day which we celebrate by walking in the parade and eating ice-cream. In NTNUI
Friidrett, we have a yearly tradition for meeting for a morning jog followed by
a swim in the ocean. We meet up at 6.30 am and ran to Korsvika for a refreshingly
swim. After the swimming we ate some ice-cream before running back. Later in that
day, we celebrated with rest of Trondheim, by joining the parade in the city
with others from NTNUI.
Morning swim in Korsvika (May 17th)
Lisen, Hjalmar and Svenn-Helge in the parade (Foto: Nils Dittrich, NTNUI Blits)
It’s also a yearly tradition to arrange championships (Kretsmesterskap) in 10 000m for men and 5000m for women at the athletics stadium in the evening. Magnus Warvik from NTNUI Friidrett competed among several of other runners, with the aim of running below 32 minutes (NM-kravet). Magnus ended in 9th place with the time 32:17,38. He was a bit disappointed, as he ran 40 seconds faster last year. Maybe it was because he ate too little ice-cream before the race?
The time went by fast and suddenly we were in the middle of June with most of the students gone back home for the summer. We continued with Monday trainings through the summer vacations as several of members were staying in Trondheim.
Thank you for reading the last recap-article of the spring semester!
Some of us went to Tromsø in June, running the Midnight Sun Marathon. We have uploaded a race-report from that event here: Race report: Midnight Sun Marathon 2019
Friday the 15th of March, 12 people from our group went for an
adventure. We travelled
to south, escaping the cold and wet weather in Trondheim. The destination was L’Albir,
a small town in the east coast of Spain, where we stayed for 9 days.
Ready for the trip`s first workout!
In general,
we trained two session per day. One before or after breakfast, and one session
between lunch and dinner. We were having three meals included per day at our
stay at the hotel, and the food was fantastic! The conditions at the hotel
where quite well with facilitations as swimming pool (both outdoor and
indoor!), strength-room, sauna, table tennis, volleyball field and wifi. It
wasn’t possible to get bored at Albir Garden Hotel!
We tried to
get many joint trainings, like going for a slow run together or doing the
harder workouts at the running track close to the hotel. But runners from
NTNUI-Friidrett travelling to Spain for a training camp are not like ordinary
runners, which you can tell by several of incredible performances! Each day we
were discussing who had been running most kilometres and what the further plan
was.
Strava – Quantity week 12
Leonard, a
former exchange student at NTNU from Germany, was really putting in those
kilometres and pushed himself hard. Going from a weekly mileage goal of 125km
to finishing the week with 200 km in 6 days were shocking the rest of us! The
German lion was not a joke. June Kieu-Van (aka Kiwi) came to the training camp
with a troubling knee, but worked hard with alternative strength-training and
ran the pain of. Doing 190km in the last 7 days tells us which kind of a
fighter she is! Magnus, the living legend, was patiently charging the batteries
to end of the week to show us how a really hard workout is to be done. At the
second-last day, the brutal marathon-workout was set to the test. He started
off with 10km of warm-up, doing 3x10km with increasing speed from 3:45-3:20
min/km pace and finishing with 10km off cool-down. A session of total 50km in
an average 3:54 min/km pace! The astonishing runner from Tromsø finished of his
last 7 days with a total of 214km.
Besides
running, a lot of eating were done. We hiked one day at a mountain in Calpe,
and some rented bikes and did some cycling as well in the area. One of them was
Terje, which cycled every day because of an injury.
We are very satisfied with our stay in Albir, and are definitely going back
next year!
After some gocart fun
The Hjalmar King
On top of Calpe Peñón de Ifach
Social
Gudenes natteliv / Nightlife of the Gods
This event
is NTNUI’s yearly party at Samfundet where people dress up in the NTNUI colours
green, yellow and black. We met for a
pre-party, hosted by Weizhi, before we went to Samfundet. To promote for the
race Fjellseterløpet, we printed out start numbers and handed them out for
people to wear. People had a great time and enjoyed going for a party in comfy
training clothes!
Pre-party, Gudenes Natteliv
Hjalmar made it to Samfundet!
Dinner-night at Clas
Like last
year, our social manager (sosialansvarlig) – Clas, made dinner a Friday after
the hill intervals and invited the group. He is quite good at the kitchen where
he also made a vegan alternative! The rest of the evening went by with board
games and snacks.
Fjellseterløpet
2019
Wednesday
April 24th, we in NTNUI Friidrett arranged the running event
Fjellseterløpet. It’s a hill race going from Lerkendal to Skistua in Bymarka.
This was the 32nd time the event was arranged, and we got 268 people
signing up! All kinds of runners attended with an age span from 11 to 68 years
of age. This year we even got nice weather and sun, thanks to the event manager
Erlend!
This event could not have been done without all
the volunteers from the group, helping out with tasks before, during and after
the race. A big thanks to all of you!
Start of Fjellseterløpet 2019 (Foto: NTNUI Blits, Nils Dittrich)
