Monthly Archives: January 2012

When I started the “life in the fast lane” blog I wanted it to be one of the leading, most entertaining, funniest & well written ski racing blogs. Now after a few weeks of heavy blog motivation problems, it has … Continue reading →

Garmisch-Partenkirschen is the only downhill race on tour, that I never scored points in. Why? Just like me they like water in GpK, the only difference is that they love it when its frozen. We were up cruising around in … Continue reading →

Matts is currently my guest at casa Olsson. Today we not only went to the gym & throw some weights around. We also came to the conclusion that we have not only reached halfway of this season, we have also … Continue reading →

All week long & including last week in Wengen my gliding splits has been as impressive as my technical splits before! In Wengen I was 48 on the first long flat & then pretty ok in the tech parts. Today … Continue reading →

As many of you might already know, todays Super G is cancelled due to warm temperatures & precipitation! I assume that the downhill race is also in danger of being cancelled, when we look at the weather forecast!! Even though … Continue reading →

Don´t feel like writing so much about but just so you know… I guess many of you have read the terrible news on the internet about Maria. She torn her ACL´l during a slalom training & is now on her … Continue reading →

So I´m in Kitz now, or actually in Kirschberg that is. We stay outside Kitz to get some peace & quite during the races here. Maria came by today, she is currently training in Hintereit so she only had a … Continue reading →

I took a day of from physical activities since Wengen is kind of a body energy killer. I instead drove up to Patsch to support & cheer for Fredrik Bauer at todays Super combined event. Youth olympic alpine venue! After … Continue reading →

Hats of to man of hour/day/ maybe the year…. Beat Feuz!! (foto Keystone) The first time I saw the “little chubby” guy, I was very very impressed about how he skied, but the way he skied this weekend is just… … Continue reading →

Not a good day, it started with bad skiing in 1 min 30 sek & it ended with a fall!! I don´t think it was hard enough to be qualified for a crash! Caught the gate over my legs & … Continue reading →

Well the 2 training runs are behind us & now its race time. What about the training runs? Well, I drew a early nr both of them wich is often a big advantage in Wengen & since the conditions are … Continue reading →

Nice to finally see the sun for the first time in a week or 2… This was on our way to Wengen… Somewhat hard to believe that its only acouple of hours away from snowy IBK!! Killer panorama from our … Continue reading →