… 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 to go out and run on the frozen baltic sea bays that reach into the Finnish metropolitan area. The world (well, if this spot on the earth is the world for you) is seen from another view point. Noises vanish, it’s quiet and serene scenery opens up in front of you. You meet happily smiling people there. Got Maija, a colleague from work lured with me. And as you can see, she was smiling, too.
Lately, the communities came up with clearing the snow from the ice for a loop shaped km or two on the width of a motorway and provide people a superb skating route. On the sides of it there’s just enough snow and rougher surface to be able to run very well on it. Otherwise it’s quite tedious to run in the deeper snow on top of the ice.
It looks like it that we still can enjoy running on frozen water for at least another week. Temperatures will stay mainly below freezing. Hope it’ll stay dry, the next 10k race is coming up on week Saturday (14.03.).
Yesterday’s training: 14,5km active relaxation and enjoying the sunny views
