Roberto Cosenza

During Lidingöloppet I got the "Iliotibial band friction syndrome" (also kalled löparknä in Swedish). It hurts like hell at the side of the left knee and after I while and I have to stop doing any kind of activitiy and just sit down. It sucks. I thought I was in control of my body but the effort made for the race has given me some consequences. I got a time at the physiotherapist, he should help me to recover in a few weeks.

Today I took an electrocardiogram (EGC or EKG as it is spellt in Swedish) just to be sure that I'm ok before I start training for the Vasaloppet seriously. I had token a couple of them when I was little and member of a football club in Rotonda. My heart runs fine so I don't have to worry and I don't have excuses :-D The doctor told me to save the diagram for a future reference, If I ever should have problems with my heart it would be usefull to compare a new diagram with the one I took today.

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I did it, I run my first Lidingöloppet. It was very exciting and I was almost crying at the end. Lidingöloppet is a 30 Km run in the woods close to Stockholm. It is famous for being very hard because of the many hills that you have to climb to reach the goal. 5823 The first 20 KM were OK, the incredible adrenaline kick that you get pushes you around with no problem. After the stop in "Grönska", after about 2 hours of race, my right knee started to hurt badly. I was almost thinking to stop. I walked for some minutes and I could start running again, altough it was not the same. Still, I could complete the race with a final time of 3h28'21", time which I' m very proud of!

[fa:p:a=midnattsloppet-2006,id=2235835650,j=l,s=s,l=i] And I mean not for this year. I mean for this life. I always thought that running was a quite boring sport but after the bike accident I had before the summer I had not much to do than run. Initially I started thinking about the 10 km of the Midnattsloppet . I heard about it when I first came to Stockholm, a friend of mine (Alberto Costa) planned to run it. For me looked like something impossible, as I was occupying my time with one cigarette after one ather. When I was in Rotonda this summer I felt that I needed to do something to give a meaning to this summer. And I started running. First 3 or 4 km, then more. First having a lot of pauses then less and less. When I told my girlfriend I was going for the Middnattsloppet and she was like "yeah, right, good luck...", not really believing to my summer project. But the more the time was running the more I was running. Back to Stockholm I went for my first 10 km. I run around...

Italy has won the FIFA WORLDCUP CHAMPIONSHIP for the 4th time. It has been a very exciting championship and you know what it is like to win a championship when you are living abroad? Nothing is like it! I went with a group  of friend to see the match at the Italian club in Nacka. From there, after the match,we moved to Sergelstorg, in the middle of Stockholm where a lot of Italians where alreay there and took a bath in the fountain. Watch the movie !

Tired of the boring javascript slideshow bundled with Menalto Gallery 2, I decided to integrate a nice flash slideshow into its own module. The module is based on the bundled slideshow and on Exposé 4 , "a Flash-based tool which allows you to create eye-catching slide shows of your pictures and videos on the web."