Jakob's wife is pregnant

Eek. So he wants to be a bad father like Gjert. The cycle continues.

I picture him training alone in the cold mountains to escape the noise. He's pulling cattle out of snow drifts, doing sit-ups hanging down from barn rafters and running up a mountain. Then just as his spirit is starting to waiver, his wife rolls up with the baby tells him he's a dad and the training montage begins.

For anyone else I'd say "F, gg, it was a good run", but I'm not writing this one off so quickly.

Yeah his wife doesn’t work. He can afford a nanny to give her a break. There should no issues whatsoever.

Except with the child’s psychological development from having an absent father

You've misread this. He's not a saying he wants to be a merciless and uncompromising father.

He's saying he has to merciless and uncompromising in his devotion to training. Even when he has kids.

Thanks for clarifying. Either way is bad. He’s going to go off to training camps and not be involved in taking care of the child. An absent father is just as bad as an alleged abusive one. Maybe worse.

Leaving for training camps is not the same as being completely absent. And you comparing fathers who have to travel for work to literal abusers is just peak brain rot that I've come to expect from this website.

He should not be having a kid if his job requires him to be gone for long periods of time and even when he’s home he can’t take care of it. Irresponsible

The message he will be constantly sending to that kid is “My job as a runner is more important than you.” Terrible

It's definitely not ideal. But there's a difference between a totally absent father and a father that has to be sporadically absent for work.

I doubt that such children grow up to be more damaged than those who are abused.

I really don’t hope so -Norway needs runners with better male genes than 1.45 -2.17 - 3.29 -3.48 -7.33 -13.23 -62 (downhill), and only one championships win…

(I’m just being childish -sure Kerr has better times in him!) -man, sorry, even that came out as a little condescending; not my intention…

I’m of the minority that agree with you here. But you don’t know for sure that that’s how Jakob will be doing his parenting (You may be a little influenced / thinking of Jakob’s brother Henrik who has said that time with the children should be down prioritised for running / resting / training camps, although he himself has been injured to such an extent that he may have gotten much more time with his daughters than expected)…

Jakob has already said that they have to find a solution when it comes to a possible conflict between the birth termin / due date and Euro champs in Rome. Personally I hope he drops these Euros (champs are in my view clown races anyways, yes even the Olys, but that’s another discussion). I hope he can prioritise the real races (the fast ones, time trials) on account of the champs, and do them when the parenting now and then gives him room for that, and that he can reduce the travelling, and bring his family with him…

I’m not sure one have to down prioritise one’s own family to be a stellar athlete…

Wow he'll be a father at 23 or 24, which is early. In general in developed countries only uneducated hicks become parents that early. But I guess he never really had much of an education.

Do you think the baby will start with double thresholds or just go straight to triples?

Yeah he'll be fine.

Bigger risk is when the kid starts going to daycare or school and brings home a new disease every week, but he has some time before that.

Terrible timing. Why not wait another 7 months until after the games? They are early to mid twenties...they have plenty of time.

Never reading your posts again after this. What a waste of time.

Agree.

He's cooked.