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I participated in the Tahko mountainbike marathon this summer for the first time. I was in the 60 km race (there are also 25, 40, 120 and 180 km alternatives as well).
For the 60 km, there were three starts, at 9:00 the “hot group” started, at 9:30 those that aimed for a time under 5 hours started, and lastly at 10:00, those who aimed for a time over 5 hours started. I started in the middle of the last group. There were 860 participants in the 60 km for men, I came at 550 place, with a time of 5hours 10 minutes and 8 seconds
I am fairly pleased with the result. There were a lot of bikers on the track, so i might have gotten a better time if i had started in the middle group, but then it would have been psychologically worse since people would have passed me, instead of me passing them. I went for the fun of biking, and had no particular goal besides finishing. I really enjoyed it. My recently purchased hydrapak drinking bag came in handy, since both hands were needed while biking. And i had filled it with sports dring, which provided me with an even blood sugar level, and water to prevent me from cramping.

Here is a clip form the race.

My brother participated in the 120 km race.
100% of the members of our mountainbiking club 4seasonMTB participated.

Next year i’ll maybe participate in the 120 km race… if i have practised enough.
An interresting detail that can be found from the results is that the winner of the 180 km (three laps of the 60 km track) had 15 min better time when he had finished 2 laps (120 km) than the winner of 120 km. That is something…

Even though i am right most of the time i find it meaningless to waste time arguing with people. Especially when people are just arguing for the sake of arguing. But if I argue, it is pointless to argue back, because I never argue unless I am 100% percent certain I am right, which means I am right. End of discussion.

I stumbled upon the following interresting little tool:
http://translate.google.com

I, was reading commeonts for a youtube clip, and there was one comment in arabic that i wanted to know what was. I first tried babelfish.altavista.com that can translate webpages but there was not a arabic transation possibility. So i googled for arabic-english translation and found translate.google.com that can translate webpages and also translate text that you can paste in.
I found it very useful.

I have used babelfish.altavista.com several times when i am trying to find some solution to some programming error and the only discussions about a certain error message have been in french or spanish. Then it has helped me to just enter te url to a page and babelfish translates it for me.
translate.google.com has the same feature as well.

It can translate Arabic, Chineese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italin, Japaneese, Korean, Portugese, Russian and Spanish to English or the other way round. Another interresting thing is that if a translation is not really good, you can improve it. This way google takes advantage of collective intelligence so that its system can be taught by experts (you) all around the world.

It also provides a widget that you can put on your webpage that translates it into a language the user desies.

I decided to put the tool to a little test.
I entered the text i wrote earlier in this blogpost.

I stumbled upon the following interresting little tool: http://translate.google.com
I, was reading commeonts for a youtube clip, and there was one comment in arabic that i wanted to know what was. I first tried babelfish.altavista.com that can translate webpages but there was not a arabic transation possibility. So i googled for arabic-english translation and found translate.google.com that can translate webpages and also translate text that you can paste in.
I found it very useful.

And had it translated into German:

Ich bin auf die folgenden interresting kleines Werkzeug: http://translate.google.com
Ich war für eine Lesung commeonts youtube Clip, und es wurde ein Kommentar in arabisch, die ich wollte wissen, was war. Babelfish.altavista.com ich zunächst versucht, die Web-Seiten zu übersetzen, aber es gab keine Möglichkeit, arabisch transation. Also i googeln für die arabisch-Englisch Übersetzungen und translate.google.com gefunden, die Web-Seiten zu übersetzen und auch übersetzen Text, den Sie einfügen können in.
Ich fand es sehr nützlich.

That was translated to French:

Je suis sur le petit outil interresting suivantes: http://translate.google.com
J’étais pour une lecture commeonts youtube clip, et il a été un commentaire en arabe, que j’ai voulu savoir ce qui était. Babelfish.altavista.com je tente tout d’abord, les pages Web à traduire, mais il n’y avait aucune possibilité de transation arabe. Also i Google pour la traduction arabe-anglais et translate.google.com trouvés, les pages Web, ainsi que de traduire de traduire le texte, que vous pouvez insérer in
Je l’ai trouvé très utile.

And that was then translated back to English:

I am on the small tool interresting: http://translate.google.com
I was for a reading commeonts youtube clip, and it was a comment in Arabic, that I wanted to know what was. Babelfish.altavista.com I try first, web pages to be translated, but there was no possibility of transaction Arabic. Also i Google for the Arabic-English translation and translate.google.com found, web pages, and to bring to translate the text, which you can insert in
I found it very useful.