Ed. This is a double posting from my new running blog at kristian.finnrc.net. Oi, one night to go. Writing this on the road to Edinburgh, Scotland. Darina is driving. Physical preparation may not have gone to the original plan as I mentioned earlier, but I still feel pretty good. Or, actually, this weeks prep has [...]
First: Then: After: Today: It’s come so quickly somehow. It feels like it was only yesterday that I met Darina – it was our five-year anniversary when we got engaged – and it feels like there should be more days until the Marathon in Edinburgh. There’s now ten days left until that. Shit. Training so [...]
Just to tick those things of my list of things to do by the time I’m 29, I’ve started a running club for Finnish – and like minded – people living in London. It’s nothing formal, especially as it only has one member, myself, but would be nice to connect all those runners around the [...]
I started exactly half a year ago to train for running the Brighton Half Marathon*(**). 185 days of sore legs, buckets of sweat and a bit of blood is culminating this Sunday the 22nd of February as the race begins. Few of you will be there in Brighton watching me – as well as Mike [...]
Just last week, 32 days early, I completed the 300 km running challenge I set myself 3 months ago. There were two things I wanted to accomplish with this: 1) Get into shape for our up-coming trip to New Zealand this christmas and 2) Feel better It was something that had been nagging me for [...]