It’s racing time again. Now during winter it’s the 10k’s again. The Aktia Cup winter series as last year with it’s second run. The series starts in Novmeber and consists of 5 runs. Pretty much the best crowd you can run with in Finland at this point in the year.
Thought about a novelty this time [...]
We love competitions in Finland. In no other country - as far as I have observed - are held so many national championships than in this little nordic place. The trick is to invite someone from Estonia or Sweden to lift it to a European Championship event. And if someone from Russia, east of Moscova [...]
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2911km to be exact are behind in this 400days project. What did we learn from almost 3000km? We’re not as good as we’d like to be and it takes quite some time to become a little bit better. Running in warm and sunny weather is much nicer than in a horizontal snow [...]
The last of the 10k test races before the Rotterdam Marathon on April 5th, again in Hakunila, Vantaa, north of Helsinki. The Aktia Cup’s last run of the winter series. The winter series consists of 5 runs starting from November. The conditions were good this time. Some wet and slushy patches at the start and [...]
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finally, what we’ve been waiting for, the running shirts (made of this “moisture-out, keeps-you dry-longer” fabric, one could think of a total different product commercial) have arrived. Just in time for today’s 10k race, the last of the Aktia Cup winter series. In case you spot it today or anytime later, just shout out “hei [...]
had to change scenery today. In the Helsinki metropolitan area there are two indoor running tracks, the Esport Arena in Espoo and the Liikuntamylly (= “the sports mill”) in the eastern part of Helsinki. The Esport Arena has a 400m Mondo track which can be a bit hard on your muscles and especially fibers. Hence, [...]
14 years ago I got a pair of racing shoes from Puma. Patrick or Pascal something, a French and German speaking sports director (or one of those guys who look after elite athletes in a company) gave them to me after I provided a couple of weeks of temporary housing for two of his Kenian [...]
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Had it been better to continue forcing myself through the 10k race and come out with a time of 36:30 - 37 mins? I decided not to and dropped out.
The fourth of five 10k races of the Aktia Cup winter series was the first one with real winter road conditions. Snow in the start and [...]
minus 7 degrees celsius, the pair of running gloves needed a pair of thin cotton hospital gloves as additional lining layer to keep the hands warm. still about 250 runners found their way out to this third round of the winter running series called aktia cup in hakunila, vantaa, north-east of helsinki. for this project, [...]
02.11.2008
kuivannon kymppi
39:26 min
10.6km
3:45min/km
22.11.2008
aktia cup, run I
36:40 min
10km
3:40min/km
13.12.2008
aktia cup, run II
36:14 min
10km
3:37min/km
17.01.2009
Aktia cup, run III
35:34 min
10km
3:33min/km
07.02.2009
Aktia cup, run IV
dropped out
10km
n/a
14.03.2009
Aktia cup, run V
35:56 min
10km
3:35min/km
05.04.2009
Rotterdam Marathon
2:49:56 h
42.195km
4:01min/km
09.05.2009
Helsinki City Run
1:21:39 h
21.1km
3:52min/km
15.08.2009
Midnattsloppet
36:11 min
10km
3:37min/km
20.09.2009
Berlin Marathon
dropped out
42.195km
n/a
12.12.2009
aktia cup, run II
36:17 min
10km
3:38min/km
11.04.2010
HSM 10k
36:22 min
10km
3:38min/km
