… when it’s frozen of course. Otherwise you don’t really get very far. The winter in Helsinki has been a real one again after a couple of rather warm ones in recent years, thanks to global warming. Wondering when we’ll see palm trees growing on Helsinki’s city center strip park, the Esplanade.
It’s always an experience [...]
He’s always full of energy and a kind of Speedy Gonzales around here. He’s here in Helsinki, next minute he’s off to Brussels, where he likes to go most. Then some peace building and keeping meetings in Egypt and Etiopia. Some people have claimed to having seen him in two places the same time… (well [...]
Continue reading about The Finnish foreign minister is da man
the knee’s much better again. yesterday’s last 5km were a bit painful, hence today’s basic run started out very carefully. Looked after the knee during the night and the whole day with a lot of Voltaren, that took away the swelling. Went to see the doc, but only got an appointment for tomorrow. Well let’s [...]
Continue reading about Chasing bikes, an old runner’s game now revived
again, 30km on the program today. I was sweating already by looking at it on the project white board. Right away the big one at the beginning of the week. This is not for low-hanging-fruit biz lingo juggler starbucks latte joggers, but rather the heavy duty construction workers type of runner (minus the beer bottle).
Headed [...]
Continue reading about A lot is happening during the long run
It happened again today. The training target was 2 x 7km in 3:45min/km and already km 3 on the first one was beyond this limit. The following ones then just worse. Forced me on km 4 and barely got a 3:46min together, km 7 was then totally the end with a 3:54min. Quite annoyed by [...]
Continue reading about Training - pulling it through or giving up?
