Training Log Archive: Terkelsen

Hills at Hirvikallio and running on small trails in the forest.

Plan was to go skiing, but I could open storage door. Hmm. I think I need to call locksmith tomorrow.

Family ski at Vesijärvi lake. Sun was shining. No wind. Temperature - 7 centigrade. Lovely condition for skiing on the lake and to have hot chocolate and cookies at Enonsaari. We skied back to Messilä and then I continued skiing on my own.

Soon after I had climbed from Vesijärvi lake and crossed Vesijärventie I saw two skiers having Lahti Ski games vests on. One "Finish/Start" text and another with "Course 1" text on his vest. They were service team members, not athletes. I was thinking they could be from Italy or France and they seemed ask me something and they did. I was preparing myself for question in English, but was totally surprised:

"Anteeksi puhutko Suomea?"
"Ky, Kyllä" I finally answered.

They were asking direction to Tapanila. I helped them and skied with them back to Tapanila. There were from Italy. Guy speaking Finish language was selling Rex ski waxes in Italy. He was actually speaking Finish very well. I didn't ask how he learned Finish. Not a big surprise that they had better glide, but this Finish speaking guy had tremendous glide. He had also skis that I had never seen before. I had to ask what there were. They were Skitrab skis. They didn't look "professional" skis, but glide was excellent. He was saying that his skis are good, engine moving these skis is not that good :). At Tapanila I said goodbye to them and skied home.

Very lovely day for outdooring. In the morning about minus 15 centigrade. Clear blue sky and sun got the temperature down to -7. Slalom skiing at Messilä with Jenni and Nella and their friend. It was first time alpine skiing for my daughters and I was doing this sport about 18 years ago. Similar to Ski O that I did couple of weeks go. Slalom skiing was fun and expensive :). Recorded part of our skiing to see how many kilometers one is traveling. Not counted as training.

Rinkball and ice hockey with kids. Taking full advantages of this nice winter day.

Skiing with Niina in the beginning. Double poling at Great Brick Lake. Nice sun set.

Korttelikuppi at Asikkala. Nice course by Seqi. Run was ok and mainly good route choices. Problems I had GPS devices. I was doing last minute charging for my Polar watch at home to make it last cold weather and then I forgot to take it with. Before the start I was setting my phone for tracking. All fine until I put the phone to pocket in vest for battery. Phone rebooted and then I restarted tracking app, but forgot to start tracking. Cannot be. No GPS data available.

Results
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Family ski. With Niina and Nella 4 km and then with daughters additionally 2 km on top and 10+ km on my own. It was luckily not so cold as I was expecting. We tried to avoid open places due to wind.