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 … Continue reading Ironman 70.3 Finland: Road to World Championship
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Canarification: Triathlon’s Camp Closure
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! … Continue reading Canarification: Triathlon’s Camp Closure
Canarification: Triathlete Diary part 4.
Weekly Wrap. Week 13 Week 13 was one of more mellow weeks I had during March. Especially when considering that this week started off on a rest day and who does not like rest days? Only recently I have noticed that due to the way my training weeks are structured, where I am often doing … Continue reading Canarification: Triathlete Diary part 4.
Canarification: Triathlete’s Camp Diary part 3.
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 … Continue reading Canarification: Triathlete’s Camp Diary part 3.
Canarification: Triathlete’s Camp Diary part 2.
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, … Continue reading Canarification: Triathlete’s Camp Diary part 2.
Canarification: Triathlete’s Camp Diary part 1.
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 … Continue reading Canarification: Triathlete’s Camp Diary part 1.
Canarification: discovery of Gran Canaria
Weekly Wrap. Week 9. What a week! I have never had my breath taken away by the weather like this time. It not enough to say that Dovile and I have fallen in love with Gran Canaria to be honest. We were complete in awe of it. Starting with the marvellous weather from the day … Continue reading Canarification: discovery of Gran Canaria
Gran Vacation
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 … Continue reading Gran Vacation
Sweet February.
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 … Continue reading Sweet February.