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They are some of the perhaps most beloved athletes Sweden had in the 21st century. When Susanna and Jenny Kallur ran fences, the entire population kept their fingers crossed. Susanna was the most successful. The list of merits includes a gold in the European Outdoor Championships, a bronze in the Indoor World Cup and a world record of 60 meters hurdles. Jenny’s record is not a shame either, with a silver at the European Indoor Championships and several medals at the Swedish Championships.
They tell Expressen that they are happy with the end of their careers: Sanna 2017 and Jenny 2011. What they lack, however, are training camps in warmer latitudes rather than cold, dark Sweden.
Keeping training going during winter is difficult for many Swedes. And to get people moving, they have now started an online service where people will be able to train alone but still together.
– Getting people to train is very important, because it seems like a pigsty among the Swedish population. If we couldn’t even train. Who will do it then? says Sanna.
I wanted to erase the heat of training
She continues:
– And we should not sit on any high horse, this with getting up to 150 minutes a week to raise the heart rate, which is the recommendation, we do not always succeed. And so we are still two people who love to train. So you understand that many do not have the strength.
Jenny completes her sister’s words by describing problems, in addition to the cold and darkness of winter, that can make people prefer to lie on the couch than on the running track.
There is a training heat that makes you think that it might not be cool enough to hit an average gym on a Wednesday night, and then you ignore it. It becomes a threshold and you think that “training is not something for me”, that you do not feel welcome. This is how I can feel too, Jenny tells Expressen.
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