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SIX WEEKS A: Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal, 29, will train alongside Juvass in mid-May, in preparation for the record attempt, in a solo race at Bislett in just under seven weeks. Photo: Ørn E. Borgen
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (29) works creatively on the driveway before attempting to break Bislett’s Grete Waitz ’41 3000-meter Norwegian record on June 11.
– I don’t know exactly what I said yes to, he says laughing to VG.
When training opportunities for Norway’s top athletes were abruptly limited by the crown, Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal would soon go buy a solid treadmill, to replace the one she suddenly had no access to in the gym at the Olympiatoppen in Sognsvann in Oslo.
But the question was where to place it. The long-distance apartment specialist shares with his girlfriend Magnus Krogsæter Aarre a few hundred meters from the Olympiad, located on the third floor without a lift. It is not large enough to accommodate a large treadmill.
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Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal contacted the board of the apartment complex and asked if there could be room for that somewhere. They offered him the boardroom in the basement, against the appointment of a board member.
– I am now a board member, with my own key to the boardroom, he reveals.
After the Olympics, although strictly regulated, they once again “opened” their gym, and the spring weather has turned out to be a good side, the boardroom mill is more like a backup.
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– I’ve trained more outdoors. But it’s okay to have the chance, she says of the alternative below.
This week Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal has trained three times at the Olympic Top Training Center. For infection control reasons, a maximum of five practitioners will be able to access the dormitories for an hour and a half. In addition to their usual exercise equipment, they are equipped with a bucket and a cloth, for continuous cleaning of the devices they touch.
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– It is a very strict regime, says Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal.
However, she has several unusual events in sight.
In a couple of weeks, she and the other medium and long distance runners who will participate in the “Impossible Games” in Bislett on June 11 will be in Juvasshytta at 1841 meters above sea level. The plan for the athletic association’s top sports coach, Erlend Slokvik, is a three-week camp in the heart of Jotunheimen, to replace the equivalent in, for example, Flagstaff in the United States or St. Moritz in Switzerland.
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– Until now I have been there once and went up to Galdhøpiggen. But I never stay too high. The details of how long we will be there are not fully established. But after being “silent” for a long time, it may be okay to change the space and the environment, so “something happens,” says Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal.
Karsten Warholm will attempt to clear the best 300-meter hurdle at Bislett on June 11, while Amalie Iuel will fight Isabelle Pedersen in the 200-meter hurdle:
Erlend Slokvik will transport treadmills, Grøvdal & co. he can run on the downhill track at Lom 382 meters above sea level and “is within walking distance” back to Oslo if the weather gets warmer near the Norwegian roof.
– It will be different.It is not complete as a height training It is a break in an emergency, says Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal.
