Workout Wednesday

Finnish December is bit different than e.g. in the US. Our days and some of the evenings are fulfilled with xmas related festivities (with friends, colleagues), mostly eating. For instance, I ate way too much today, but luckily I had a decent workout already under my belt.

Due to snowy and slippery road conditions your choices for running fast are limited. For me to usual choice has been a treadmill since it sort of amplifies the running related pain. Fortunately, this not that only option. We live so close to the indoor track that I have to run an extra loop in order to get enough long warm-up.

So today I was ready for 8*500m'200m already at 7:01AM (the facilities open at 7:00) and of course I was the only one there. Nice. The pace varied from 5:15 to 4:50 (@mile) and that's the fastest pace that I have run in years.

But today's craziest news is that Jarmo Hast, a Finnish triathlete, swam 26.2 miles (in a pool) in 11 hrs 44 minutes. Insane. 6 hrs of aqua jogging is nothing.