Training Log Archive: W

My overall general total lack of time means that I'm probably not going to get to do any training over the next three days, and today was down to the bare minimum. The little skiff of snow we had is rapidly melting with the +3 and rain, which is not so nice, but totally normal in November it seems like. Still haven't seen the sun this month, and I'm really expecting two, which means there have been two fulls months this year without sunshine. No wonder they tend to, you know....

Really glad I joined in on a run with the boys. They jogged over to Keltinmäki to pick me up then I got to see a couple new trails I hadn't seen before. I definitely wouldn't have gone for this kind of run without them, so super glad that I did it. Rainy and wet out, but nice evening for a snowing water jog. I hope I can find those trails again in the daylight! Felt better about my fitness for week and a half from now, unfortunately this weekend will be another bad training weekend, probably nothing on Friday and even Saturday. Boo-urns.

Well, that was a frustrating session. I checked the track schedule to see if it was available, and nothing was booked all evening. So, cool, I headed there around 4:15 to do another 6 x 1k. Warmed up, then as I started the first one, a whole lot of people started streaming in. This was a bad sign. But, I finished that one, then rested started the second one, and as I rounded the bend, someone looked directly at me and did that universal [Finnish] symbol for "stop", and I said "why?" in English, and he said... something. I'm pretty sure he didn't hear what I said, and may not have even been talking to me. But, I suppose that meant I had to stop running because someone else had booked it. I slowly got changed and still couldn't understand why I couldn't run on the track.

But, I resolved to keep training, so I went to the gym and hopefully get on a treadmill. But, they were all taken, so I had to bike for 10 minutes. I then managed to get on one and do another 3 intervals until someone else at the gym booked at 6, so it ended there.

Argh. Annoying day for so many reasons. I don't understand why they could kick me off when nothing was booked. I wished I had a Finn there with me right then.

Reasons outside of my control have forced me to be constantly taking days off, and its super frustrating. I really don't like the current situation, but I think it will improve after Christmas. Doesn't help my current month of training though, very bad indeed!

To be fair, one thing that would help me a lot is if I didn't quite dawdle so much when going from one activity to the next. Need some to harass me to speed the hell up! Geez.