Woohoo - my first triathlon ever!! 🙌 Nice sunny morning HelTri test race w/ Mikko, changing all my clothes into long sleeves after the swim and almost quit during the first strokes already. It was a wet Hell! But still I continued - and I'm sooooo proud of it! Also because it was under 10 degrees in the morning.. I suck but there's only one way to go from here! :D

Helsinki City Run 2017, #HCR2017 - super good feeling all the way to the finish line! Did not make a PB but learned a lot. I heard that the EPOC graph ideally goes diagonally and steadily up towards the right upper corner. Judging by this criteria, I succeeded pretty well. :) location time speed o/a sex cat split speed o/a sex cat time of day 5 km 23:39 4:44 min/km 527 48 34 23:39 4:44 min/km 527 48 34 15:24:01 10 km 45:58 4:36 min/km 554 49 34 22:19 4:28 min/km 594 55 38 15:46:20 15 km 1:09:38 4:39 min/km 531 47 32 23:40 4:44 min/km 534 46 32 16:09:59 20 km 1:32:56 4:39 min/km 532 44 31 23:19 4:40 min/km 606 55 41 16:33:17 21 km 1:37:43 4:38 min/km 528 44 31 4:48 4:22 min/km 641 57 41 16:38:05

My first "ultra" w/ Team Nordic Trail on UTMB route. My Ambit ran out of batteries long before we arrived to the next hostel, unfortunately!

Stockholm Marathon 2016 w/ Eeva & Kaisa again! Split min/km place 5K 04:51 229 10K 04:56 230 15K 04:53 218 20K 04:59 222 Half 04:57 222 25K 04:58 208 30K 05:08 214 35K 05:14 202 40K 05:20 204 Fin 05:22 204

Helsinki City Run 2016. Finally, for such a long time, a run that I enjoyed so much - and without any pain!

No words. I've achieved more than ever could've imagined. When we reached the (lower) end of Sa Calobra by the ocean, I started crying. I hadn't felt fear at any point of the descent - but actually enjoyed the trip! For this, it was cava on my account for the whole group when back at the pool again!

Amsterdam Marathon 2015 - the only marathon for this year I ran at my on pace, and almost 20 min worse than last year around this time. Rough in the end as its supposed to be. Unfortunately, stomach problems at 25 km took too much unnecessary time from running.. The worst possible weather for me and just gotten over a long flu so just have to appreciate this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKisS6vCS08&feature=youtu.be

Stockholm Marathon w/ Eeva. And yes, I really wasn't supposed to run I but took it as a long run and with my friend's pib as she couldn't run herself. Eeva got her PB spledidly and she claims she couldn't have done it without me! :)

Sa Calobra - Coll dels Reis: the bravest things I've ever achieved in my life so far! 9,4 kms of continuous ascent from the coast with 668 m height gain, which wasn't too bad - but the descent there was awful. (Couldn't record the whole trip but a friend did: https://flow.polar.com/training/analysis/83729140)

Nuuksio Classic Trail Marathon http://nuuksioclassic.com/, my very first trail running marathon, and it all ended so badly... :( Luckily, I didn't have any expectations on goals, but just had the loveliest time running in the beautiful forests of Nuuksio with an experienced trail runner from Tampere (thank you again, if you ever read this!) - when I went and tripped down to a bunch of ugly roots. And not just a little. I got an ambulance ride back to the area. But if we had finished together (which we would have otherwise) my position would've been 11th of women (4:45). Maybe next year, or maybe never. I still didn't loose my heart totally to trail running. :)

My personal best. On a gray, chilly day. On a boring 10 km x 4 route of Vantaan Maraton - Tikkurila. It was great to share the event with all the wonderful people there, but somehow the actual PB doesn't make me happy. It wasn't a specifically nice run, although not a tough one for me. It just didn't give me the kicks. Anyhow, it's one of my Greatests on some scale, I guess.

HCM2014 - and I could not have enjoyed running any more!! Pure joy, good company, happy cheering, relaxed feeling and easy going all the way throuhg - probably the best marathon feeling ever! Ambit showed 10 seconds faster pace from the beginning (total distance in the end 42,01 km) so I gave up of running a pace and listened only my HR, and it always works. :)

I just remember thinking how lovely it is to run long distances compared to the 1/2 marathons where you really have to run fast. Because of too much crowd I had no choice but to stroll along steadily with the others. The roads were really narrow and with dangerous obstacles here and there. Still I couldn't have enjoyed more as a the weather was perfect and the crowd cheered as we were heroes! :) Perfect!

Easy and enjoyable run in good company! :) Run out of memory space before 3 h.