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Planning for more adventures 2020

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019
by Team Lost

This year hasn’t come to an end yet, but we’ve already started planning for next year. There’s so many races during the year and you can’t do them all so it’s important to have a plan.

We have looked at BAMM for years and we have been curios about the race. BAMM is a two day orientation race in mountain terrain. You compete in teams of two and you bring equipment for one overnight along the course. Distances offered are 30k, 50k and 70k split on two days.

The participants competing in the 50 and 70km distances will carry all equipment needed to manage two tough days and one night outside in the mountain terrain. This is so much adventure!

After passing all the checkpoints the competitors will reach the night camp where everybody will spend the night in a big camp.

This will be a big challenge for us. Our name is TEAM LOST which means that we often get lost and it’s important at this race to find the right way.
We have signed up for 70k. Now we’re looking forward to do more training like this adventure – Jönköping – Gränna.

Are you interested about this race? If you use the code – teamlostfriends you get 10% discount when you sign up for the race next year.

(pictures are from BAMM)

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Trail running with backpack and tent

August 29, 2019August 31, 2019
by Team Lost

We started our adventure by taking the bus from Jönköping to Gränna harbour. We ran a few km until we joined the John Bauer trail. This was something new for us, we have never done it before and never been running so long in 24 hours.

We have packed everything we needed for the coming days. Tent, sleeping bags, kitchen, food, new clothes etc.

We started to run on asfalt before we came to super cool trails along Lake Vättern. The weather was perfect for running, a little cloudy and around 24 degrees. Our plan was to make it all the way to Jönköping and we didn’t have any time goal so we walked uphill and toke it easy.

After a couple of hours, near the village of Bunn, we stopped and filled up our water bottles with more water. We took a look at the map and decided where we should put up the tent and sleep for the night. We decided to stop by a lake called Lappsjön. On the way there it started to get darker and darker. Lucky for us we had packed headlights that we used the last 5km.

We found the lake we were looking for, put up our tent, boiled some water and had a late dinner. The food from we brought was from Real Turmat and it was really nice to have food after some hours of running. We ran 27 km the first day.

We fell a sleep fast and woke up early with the birds that did some funny sounds. It was a super cool little place that we had found. We had breakfast. Patrik wanted food for breakfast and Fanny hade müsli. We boiled water for our water bottles and packed everything and got ready for running again.

Our bodies felt ok and we didn’t have any injuries except blisters on our toes from the first day. We hade the same plan as the first day, no stress and walk uphill. Our bags weighted about 5 kilo extra each and it was much harder to run with bags than we had expected.

We didn’t take any longer breaks, just kept moving forward. When we felt tired we walked for a bit. It started to rain in the end but it was just nice.

When we came to the finish of John Bauer trail we still had a bit left home. We ran down to Huskvarna, ca 5km, were we took the bus home.

We had a plan to maybe run the last bit home but it was 10 k on asphalt and we both felt that 31 km the second day was enough. We ended the second day with nice and cool trail running and a great feeling instead of add 10 k extra on asphalt.

We ran 58 k in total, happy and tierd when we came home.

The equipment we used:

All the tent products we use are from Vaude. We really like the brand, the quality and that they have eco friendly products. The have a Green Shape label, that means that their products are made from sustainable materials.

* Tent model : Hogan SUL 2P
* Matress Performance 7 M
* Sleeping bags Alpstein Concept Alpstein 200 DWN
* Backpack Trail spacer 18

We also packed:
* Silva light – Cross trail x 5
* Kitchen from MSR – MSR PocketRocket 2 Mini Stove Kit
* Primus Microntrail
* Food from REAL Turmat
* GoPro

You find the gpx file for the John Bauer Trail here.

Do you know where we should run next?

Do you want to read more about camping adventure, check out our trip to Norway HERE

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Trail running to Schwellisee lake in the mountains of…

August 18, 2019August 22, 2019
by Team Lost

Early morning trail running up the mountains in Arosa, Switzerland. We followed the markings up to Schwellisee lake, a beautiful lake ca 4 km up in the mountains.

Here is a GPX file to follow.

The Schwellisee lake is located on 1,933m above sea level on the Aroser Alp, south-west of Innerarosa along the Plessur river. The Swiss stone pine logs in the lake are proof of the former Swiss pine forest that stretched far above the lake and was cleared by the Wals colony. From Innerarosa the lake can be reached within a gentle hike of 1 hour. If desired the hike may be prolonged to the Älplisee lake as well as to the Erzhorn and Aroser Rothorn.

More about Arosa, Switzerland

For more information about Switzerland go to myswitzerland.com

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Sjöloppet! RACE REPORT – Winners again

June 18, 2019July 11, 2019
by Team Lost

Wow we won again! We really didn’t expect that.

This week we have practiced quick changes between running and swimming, we feel that this can save us a lot of time during the races.

Before Sjöloppet we had the attitude of having fun, getting all the changes between running and swimming to work well and get the teamwork to work better. We warmed up with the family race. A little over 1 km running and 200 m swimming. Like last week in Jönköping, the Unicorn was with us.

Then it was time for the sprint race at 15 km. It was hot and sweaty and we put ourselves at the front of the start.

We ran away quickly and was one of the first teams in the water. Patrik swam first and Fanny was behind. We took the lead after the first swimming. And we found a steady pace in the running. It was trails mixed with some asfalt. We didn’t think much about our place, we just tried to work on our team work and have fun.

At the end, the sprint race and the distance race ran into the finish line. We was the winners in the sprint class and also with a new course record. Super fun ande well organised race that we love to run again!

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Running with backpack – Review Silva Strive Light 5…

March 31, 2019May 31, 2019
by Team Lost

We have had the opportunity to test the backpack Strive Light 5 from Swedish Silva and are pleasantly surprised. It is a stable and flexible backpack with many adjustment possibilities. The backpack can hold 5 liters of packing, which is perfect for running in a few hours. The design is stylish, it’s slim to the back, which means it does not skim around. There are many compartments for gels and mobile phones as well as room for liquid by having a liquid blower at the back or bottles on the chest. The backpack also works great for use without a sweater, as it does not give any shafe.

Silva Strive Light 5 has a relatively low price and a good quality. We often use it in training and have had it on several longer races.