High places, trails and training with a splash of fashion and rhythm flavour
As we are heading hiking soon to Lapland on our holiday it makes sense to use the time there to test the gear. Got the boots and poles so bought the day bag also from sale along with rain cover and small pouch for phone. We do have porters who will carry our “big” back, …
Week was OK, but clearly office move + pre-holiday hassle at work has taken its toll and I was pretty exhausted the whole week even without exercise. Managed to get something done though. First run was a 10 k trail run at Sipoonkorpi National forest on Sunday. Terrain was very versatile from rugged cliff to …
With some good after midsummer sales I decided to start looking into the kit list suggested. There a quite a few things that I need to get, but luckily there is also plenty of time. But most important things first, hiking boots… Price was 159 EUR with discount which I think is not too bad. …
Started training this week again after being sick. Managed to do a short 5k first run at summer cottage, got drenched and lost my sunglasses in the forest. Won’t post the zig-zag I did trying to find them and won’t calculate the ascent as my Suunto watch did not quite follow up with me up-and-down …
Here I am at my parents house in Finland waiting for my eldest son to arrive with train that was VERY late. Tomorrow we will head out to summer cottage for a few days for a well deserved break. Getting ready for Kili has been a bit on halt due to the busy end of …
View from the natural top of Helsinki. Well almost the highest… I think the highest is actually about 100 m to North still, but I tend to climb here on my runs. Nice view to Helsinki Malmi private airport and the city. So now I will start blogging. First I need to test how this …