NTNUI Friidrett

RECAP SPRING 2019, January-February (1/3)

Hey fellow runners! Due to little updates and lack of articles from what the group has been doing during the first semester of 2019, we want to make a newsletter over three articles to summarize the last semester. Hope you will enjoy looking back at these memories. Either as a group member or as a curious person wondering what’s going on in this group!

New Years Resolution Week

In the beginning of the semester, we wanted to kickstart the new year with a week full of activities. This idea is similar to what we have been doing every August in the start of a new semester, to welcome new students and old members from the summer vacation.

NTNUI Friidrett is not only a group for running and athletics, but the social part is something we value just as much. Besides the trainings, social gatherings are important for our group to become better known and strengthen the fellowship in the group. In our group, you are always welcome to join us! Either if you are an experienced runner or never have been doing running before.  

In the “New Years Resolution Week” the trainings where going as usual. For Tuesday, 6 people went to Ranheimshallen and participated in a 3000m indoor race which was a part of “Vinterkarusellen”. It was a great race with many participants and different starting heats depending on your own time goal. Several of our runners participate in races from 10k to the Marathon, but a 3000m race on the 200m indoor track was far enough!

On Thursday we had a mystery event at campus Gløshaugen where we divided in teams and did some activities, like quiz and paper-plane-competition, where we ended of the evening with pizza! On Friday, there where 3 runners who skipped the regular hill-intervals and ran ultra-intervals instead. They started at 14:00 by doing 1 hour of easy running, then having a 2 hour break, before running easy for 1 hour again. In total they did 8 hours of running in the time period from 14:00 at Friday till 12:00 at Saturday! Great job (or craziness) by Magnus, Ole Emil and June Kieu-Van! Later that Saturday, we gathered for winter games and party in the evening.

Election of new board

Like every year, we had the main yearly meeting where we discussed events and what’s important for our group. We also elected a new group board:

            Elise Wallinder, Leader

            Svenn-Helge Vatne, Deputy Leader

            Erlend Hansen, Finance Manager

            Clas Olaf Andersen, Social Manager

          Karoline Gartha Hammer, Events Manager

            Lisen Brønmo Næss, Sports Manager

            Ole Emil Frisvold, Informational Manager

Trainings in Ranheimshallen

Our trainings at Wednesdays are intervals, usually at a track. During the summer season we run at Øya Stadium, but due to conditions during winter we move the trainings indoor as soon as the temperature gets below zero degrees and the track gets slippery. We are very lucky to have the opportunity to train at an indoor track instead of running at treadmills during the winter. Although it consumes some time travelling to Ranheim, the board are satisfied with the attendance during this winter for the Wednesday intervals! It’s nice to have the wideness at the training so people always have someone to run with or strive to.

NTNUIs Orden – “Ridderkåring”

In the first weekend of March, board members from the different groups in NTNUI gathered at “Studenterhytta” for the yearly group-leader-gathering (gruppeledersamling). This is to get better known with the other groups, shear knowledge and have fun! From our group, Svenn-Helge and Magnus (former group leader) joined the event. During the weekend, NTNUI had an award ceremony called “NTNUIs Orden” where people who have made a great sports achievement or contribution to NTNUI becomes an honorary member of the sport club. They are titled riddere/knights of NTNUI. This year, seven people received this award, including Svenn-Helge and Magnus. Their contribution for the group has been astonishing, and the board wants to thank them so much for their great effort.

Joint party with NTNUI Triathlon and Cycling

In February, we hosted a joint party with the NTNUI groups Triathlon and Cycling. This was a nice evening for getting to know other people outside the group which is doing endurance sports! During this semester, the group has bonded more with NTNUI Triathlon where we invited members from their group to join us for the Wednesday intervals. We hope this will be a lasting cooperation!

This summarizes most of what has been going on in the group during January and February. Stay tuned for the next news-letter! There we will summarize most of March and April, where a lot happened; training camp in Spain, Gudenes Natteliv and Fjellseterløpet.

RECAP SPRING 2019, March-April (2/3)

Spain trip – Tour de Albir

Friday the 15^th 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.

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.

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!

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!

            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 24^th, we in NTNUI Friidrett arranged the running event Fjellseterløpet. It’s a hill race going from Lerkendal to Skistua in Bymarka. This was the 32^nd 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!

RECAP SPRING 2019, May-June (3/3)

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!

Other races which people attended to from the group during May was

• May 14^th:            Tordenskioldløpet, 5km and 10km
• May 15^th:            BDO-mila, 5km and 10km
• May 17^th :           KM Langdistanse, 10 000m men
• May 30^th:           Botn Rundt, 15km

17^th of May

May 17^th 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.

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 9^th 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 2019Åpne publiseringspanelet