Finally, we had a proper winter vacation, with snow and skiing and all. First, we spent a week in the village of Le Rosier in Vallée de la Clarée in Hautes-Alpes (our third time there in three months) running and skiing, and then three days in Entre-Deux-Guiers on the Chartreuse […]
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 […]
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, […]
In November we have had two back-to-back long weekends, All Saints Day a week ago and the Armistice this past weekend. We spent the former in Lyon, and this time escaped to the Vercors mountains, maybe the first time since we moved to the opposite direction from Grenoble. The plan […]
I use various filters and a special plugin in Facebook to filter out advertisements and sponsored posts from my feed. For some reason an ad for The Art of the Brick, a LEGO® art exhibition by an American artist (and a former lawyer) Nathan Sawaya, got through. We didn’t think […]
Tomi’s been in cold and humid Finland for this past week, while Tei has enjoyed quite aestival weather in Grenoble. Althought the mornings have been cool, the daytime temperatures have climbed to mid-twenties. On Saturday morning it was time to climb Mont Rachais (1050m). Leaving at 9am. it was only […]