Training Log Archive: Tiina

First day of our 5-day hike in the Saariselkä wilderness zone, in Eastern Lapland, near the Russian border. With Tapio we will walk in the forest and over the fells with all our stuff in backpacks and sleep in wilderness huts or in a tent. The first day was easy, we just followed the river, no climbing.

(The times are only estimations of active walking, I didn't have a watch with me.)

We spent the night watching the men's race and celebrating Anu's "last days as a single" with girls (she'll get married next weekend).
Tapio ran like an animal on the 2nd leg! :) We left home with him early in the morning and listened the end of the relay from the radio on the way. (Except that I fell asleep and missed the most exciting part...)

Today I just slept and packed my things for next week's trip to Lapland.

Event: Jukola 2008
 

Morning jog at Kangasala, waiting for Jukola to begin.

2nd leg in HS1 in the Venla-relay at Kaanaa. It was tough and quite difficult. I made some mistakes and felt really tired in the end. I'm not satisfied with my run, but our third leg runner did relly well, and we still had a good chance to be in top 15: our last leg runner started 18th and had lifted us to the 14th place until the middle of the leg, but then she started to make mistakes and couldn't keep the same pace anymore. She was 30. at the finish. Next year... next year...
Our team: Kirti (28.), me (27.), Heidi (18.), Anu (30.).
P.S. A good run for HS2 (49.)!

Before and after the race.

From work to Maunula.

In Leppävaara with some of our club's women. We had our Venla-meeting; running, sauna, eating and a few words about the relay. Jukola, here we come!

We had an "activity day" at work, so we drove 100km to Pajulahti sports institute to do some nordic walking, to eat and to have a sauna. There was also some silly dancing and a lecture about exercising as a part of a healthy lifestyle...

Raksarastit at Kellonummi. I still felt physically great. Until about the half way, when I decided to go straight up a big cliff. I got a bit stuck and got really scared... (I even thought about screaming for help, which I wouldn't do easily...) Finally I managed to climb up, but after that my legs felt like macaroni.