Pre-race: The race was happening in Finland, Lahti region. The selling point of this particular 70.3 Ironman event was that you race through "polar night" - meaning that we would start pretty late and the last finisher would still cross the finish line with bright sky. Usually races start as early as 06 - 07 …
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Where was I [Part 3] What a long, strange and fulfilling 4 months have it been since my last post. Even though I have kept the idea in my head for all this time, I was unable to simply sit back and write it down. So many things happened. But that is a good thing! …
Weekly Wrap. Week 12 I came into this week after a failure to withstand an indoor bike session of 3 hours. This built up a premise, which haunts me till this day - where I am afraid of the long bike sessions and bike in general. Week started off easily with a rest day after …
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Weekly Wrap. Week 11. Journey back home from Lanzarote takes a lot of time, some transfer flights, stays somewhere in between. It almost took me a full day, to travel to Vilnius. I had left Lanzarote on Saturday midday, finishing the camp with a long run alongside my tri-friend, Finbarr. I first flew to Barcelona, …
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Weekly Wrap. Week 10. I just had to start this week with such picture, because I realized how behind I have got with my posts - we are already at week 13! Therefore I want to try to limit the losses and you might be looking into 2-3 posts in upcoming week. I do hope …
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Weekly Wrap 8. I will try to wrap quickly again. This time it is due to the fact there is not much internet connection at the place we stay in Gran Canaria. So it is difficult to catch some internet and have a blog posted. However, I will definitely definitely make it up for the …
Weekly Wrap. Week 7. Hope you are doing well and have noticed that days are getting longer and longer. That of course depends, whether you live in northern hemisphere, like myself and are exposed to the "winter time". But in general, every week adds about 30 minutes to a day now: mornings start earlier and …
Weekly Wrap. Week 6. Past few weeks are proggressively giving me harder times. At one point, I thought that I will not be able to share you with the results of week 6 and my streak of consistant blogpost-a-week would be broken. But I decided not to give up and at least come back with a quick note here. That …
Weekly Wrap. Week 5 Whoa, 4 out of 4 blog posts in month of January. Some of the blogposts came out easily and seamlessly, others started with some struggles, but by the end I was happy about those. In overall, from blogging perspective, January was a successful month and I hope to continue with the same …
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