Fresh Start

The 2008 season has officially begun with a 'winter triathlon' here in Turku. The event was pretty minimal and mostly just a fun way for people in the area to get a good workout and remember why they are training.

Taking place in and around our home swimming pool of Impivara, the triathlon consisted of a 500 meter pool swim, short break to put ski clothes on, then off to ski 7km and finish with a 4km run. Snow was particularly hard to find this year and we relied on the 2km man-made track nearby to do the event. MOST of the course had snow, except an uphill where you needed to carefully walk up a narrow band of snow on the side. Regardless of the poor snow conditions, the event was great fun and I can say my season has started on a good note after I finished a couple minutes ahead of 2nd place (my coach Mika).
The 2008 season has officially begun with a 'winter triathlon' here in Turku. The event was pretty minimal and mostly just a fun way for people in the area to get a good workout and remember why they are training.

Taking place in and around our home swimming pool of Impivara, the triathlon consisted of a 500 meter pool swim, short break to put ski clothes on, then off to ski 7km and finish with a 4km run. Snow was particularly hard to find this year and we relied on the 2km man-made track nearby to do the event. MOST of the course had snow, except an uphill where you needed to carefully walk up a narrow band of snow on the side. Regardless of the poor snow conditions, the event was great fun and I can say my season has started on a good note after I finished a couple minutes ahead of 2nd place (my coach Mika).

The remainder of March was spent battling the late winter that finally decided to come to Finland. While training in the snow normally is not a problem, I still managed to have three small cycling crashes in one month. Pretty amazing series of bad luck, but luckily only minor scraps and bruises.

Now everything is back on track and going well. The sun is feeling warm and spring has really started, so training begins to feel very easy when compared to the winter months. As they say, 'now the fun begins!'

The remainder of March was spent battling the late winter that finally decided to come to Finland. While training in the snow normally is not a problem, I still managed to have three small cycling crashes in one month. Pretty amazing series of bad luck, but luckily only minor scraps and bruises.

Now everything is back on track and going well. The sun is feeling warm and spring has really started, so training begins to feel very easy when compared to the winter months. As they say, 'now the fun begins!'