… after two years, that is! This short post is to share some pictures from our extempore skiing adventure in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes. A couple of weeks after we returned from our year-end vacation there, having not skied a single meter because of the snow situation, a […]
We booked our year-end skiing vacation in Les Alberts in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes well ahead of time when skiing conditions still (or already) looked very promising (the same place, but not the same apartment, we stayed in December last year and then again in March) . Then […]
We have finished fifteen weeks of Polar’s training program, started this morning the sixteenth, and feel pretty good. We have still six more weeks to go in the Base building phase of the program, and thereafter 13 weeks of Build-up until the race day. We were confident enough of our […]
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 […]
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 returned to the heart of the Chartreuse massif for this extended Ascension Day holiday weekend. On our previous visit to the valley of two rivers Guiers (Vif and Mort) in March we discovered a bicycle path that runs at the bottom of the valley. Even if we walked most […]
The dreaded November is over. My memory may fail me but I think that it wasn’t as bad as it has been in previous years we’ve lived here. Of course we had a considerable number of days with low hanging clouds but also fair amount of sunshine, and many beautiful, […]