Susanne Nordén, winner among the ladies, with Lotta Bångens.

So you like training and running in the woods, and you’re bit bored? What to do? Get your friends together and arrange your own triathlon.

Making flips from rooftops, stand on your hands on a stump, jump up on a wall – now there’s a name for it. Parkour – the sport, art form and lifestyle – is growing rapidly in Sweden and perhaps fastest in the city of Helsingborg on the Swedish southwest coast.

Gunnika Isaksson-Lutteman was longing to spend more time outdoors. But she simply never got around to do it. Then, last year, she decided to have an adventure, or 52 to be more precise.

Swedish Lapland? No, Söderbysjön, 2 km’s outside Stockholm City.

Wintertime and holiday doesn’t have to mean the Alps or the Swedish mountains. For foreign visitors and locals with small reserves there’s plenty of adventures around Stockholm.