On one of our hikes in the Summer last year we saw this strange white building in the forest. When back home we checked the map and the searched the internet, and found out what this curious architectural project, built in 1966, was. Here you can read all about it, […]
Four weeks ago we switched from Runners’ World’s 16-week sub 4h30 marathon training program to one Polar’s (my sportswatch) web application created for us. While neither program focuses on actual speed or pace, Runners’ World’s program is based on subjective effort, whereas Polar’s program uses heart rate zones. The default […]
We had two travel days left in our Interrail Global Passes (10 days of traveling in two months) from the July’s train travels that needed to be used by the end of August, so we decided to utilize them this past extended weekend (+ a couple of extra days) traveling […]
This post is about the “Trails” part of our vacation. We did three easy to moderate hikes: first one to Joenmäenvuori and Harjuranta Nature Church near Varkaus, the second to Kotkanpolku (“Eagle’s Trail”) in Kotkatharju Outdoor Recreation Area in Joroinen, south of Varkaus, and the third one to Kangasvuokon Kuiskaus […]
We spent two weeks at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi. These weeks were the most relaxing time of our vacation/workation; we didn’t need to be anywhere particular, and we didn’t need to do anything special. We went for early morning runs, then worked through the day, watch tennis and athletics, […]
The storm Ulla arrived in the evening of our arrival to Mänttä, bringing heavy rains and strong winds with her. The strong wind still prevailed in the morning but we headed out for a run nevertheless. Trails were quite muddy and the grass wet, and fortunately we decided to wear […]
We did not stay but one day in Helsinki both on our trip in and out from Finland. That was quite enough to squeeze in a morning run in a refreshing temperature, pay a visit to an optician to choose and order our new glasses, and then pick them up […]
After a sleepless night at a sizzling hotel room in Grenoble, we spent five hours on trains to Firenze. We chose to go to Grenoble a night before the start of the trip, since our train to Chambéry left so early. There we had a one-hour wait for the train […]
This Summer’s vacation/workation was a combination of train travel with an Interrail Global Pass, and flights from Italy to Finland and back. First, we took a train to Firenze (*) where we spent three days before continuing to Pisa by train, and flying to Helsinki. From Helsinki we took a […]