About me

Technology nerd. Nature lover. Crappy photographer.

What is there to say really? I'm a nerd, with a passion for all things technology and a love for tinkering with computers. To me questioning how things work, why they behave in certain ways is the essence of being human. And learning something new makes me feel good.

The Skåneleden challenge

A marathon is ran by simply putting one foot infront of the other

The Skåneleden challenge is one of my more recent projects. It tries to mitigate my occassional longing for adventure and travel by not wanting to be somewhere else but instead looking for beauty in my own backyard.

I often find myself enjoying the journey more than the destination 🦮

It starts with an idea 💡

I have over the years walked many different parts of Skåneleden, sometimes with my partner, my dog or with friends. But only recently did an idea come to my head that what I really should do is walk the whole lot. So, I started off by scraping the official website for all segments and gpx files and ingested them into an Excel spreadsheet. The idea now is to start from scratch, and re-walk every single section of Skåneleden.

The starting point

We all have to start somewhere. Skåneleden is basically
- 143 sections grouped as 6 subtrails.
- with 1602.7 km of total trails

Update 2024-05-22
Turns out Skåneleden has indeed grown a bit since I started this project, in particular SL6 has seen the most changes and increasted from around 78 km to around 190 km. Naturally, this recalculates my progress.

The current progress

[Updated 2024-11-11]
- completed 30 sections (~ 20.98%)
- walked 354 km 🥾 in order to complete 337 km of trail (~ 21.02%)
- climbed 3592 meters of elevation ⛰️
- spent 6903 minutes walking or running ⌚️
- burned 22611 🔥 calories. Woah! That's at least (18) 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 pizzas!

Show me the data 📈

In a perfect world I would've wanted to walk each section sequentially, subtrail by subtrail. It would be satisfying for my OCD. Unfortunately a perfect world seldom exists, and due to logistics and time constraints it's more efficient to check off the sections closer to home when I have less time available and vice versa go further away on extended vacation periods.

Grouped by subtrail

If all is green it means I'm done. 🌱

if get_chart().get_pixels(color='Green') == get_chart().TOTAL_PIXELS: 
	return challenge_complete()
		

Walked distance over time

“In a way time moves relentlessly forwards, all we can do is try to keep up with it for a while.” ⏳

while time:
	total_distance += get_last_walk()