Night Orienteering Taught Me I Cannot Read a Map When My Heart Rate Is 170
Running through a bog with a headlamp is humbling, and it showed me how stress narrows the mind.
Henrik Aas
@henrik.aasPhysiotherapist in Trondheim. I ski long distances slowly and write about how bodies cope with cold, effort and snow.
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Articles
What Actually Happens Inside Your Lungs When You Breathe Air at Minus 20
Your airways are remarkably good at warming cold air, until you ask them to do it at race pace.
The Ski Wax Room Is Secretly a Chemistry Lab
Why skis glide at all, why some days they do not, and why the old miracle waxes were banned.
Lactic Acid Is Not What Makes Your Legs Burn
The molecule coaches blamed for a century is actually fuel, and the real story of muscle fatigue is messier.
I Tried to Teach My Daughter to Ski Without Ruining It for Her
Most of what I knew as a coach and a parent turned out to be wrong for a five-year-old.
Our Village Ski Club Still Grooms Its Trails by Hand on Tuesday Nights
Twelve volunteers, one old snowmobile and a homemade track setter keep 18 kilometres of trails open all winter.
Why Your Fingers Turn White in the Cold, and When It Is Not Normal
A physiotherapist's guide to blood flow, cold hands and the condition called Raynaud's phenomenon.
I Skied 54 Kilometres at 40 and Finished Behind a 71-Year-Old
A long-distance ski race taught me that pacing, not fitness, is what most of us are missing.
