LAPLAND
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Lapland was GREAT! I’ve been twice in Lapland during the winter time, always in Saariselka, which is a cool place. I must say anyway, that Ylläs is much, much better! We’ve done lots of skiing kms, been downhill skiing one whole day, sauna, relax, etc. The weather was nice, although sometimes surprisingly varying.
Now back in Turku. At the moment the only difference between Ylläs and Turku is 200 meters in altitude and those 300 kilometers of skiing tracks. Otherwise TOOOO much snow and cold!
I would so much like to start running in the forest! My plan for the next week was O-camp in Halden, but there’s still so much snow, that I probably have to call this training camp OFF! It seems that winter is still keeping a really tight grip over the Scandinavian ![]()
The first races, Spring Cup, is really soon and I haven’t been running on the map much so far. And it seems that it is not likely to happen in upcoming weeks. Well, the only O-training is just playing Catching Features and going through the old maps. Hope that’s gonna change SOON!
some photos from Lapland here and few more here
-R-

Mela to byt poklidna sauna s kamarady… Pro Mattse to byla zase pro zmenu jizda! Kdyz k nam prichazel, rikal Patrikovi, ze dneska jako moc ne, protoze zitra FAKT musi do prace. To uz mel v sobe 0,5l cideru. No nic sauna no.1, 2,… Matts sel tvrde do panaku, slivka je holt slivka. Kdyz uz byl konecne cas jit spat, Matts se rozhodl, ze musi jeste do Bristolu (pro sporadane zenace hospoda, ale pro neho jako nezadaneho hocha druhy obyvak). Patrik ho marne premlouval, ze to uz nema cenu, nedalo se nic delat. Cestou z bytu nam trosicku posnezil chipsama podlahu, kvetinace i obleceni. Rano v 8:30 vola Matts Patrikovi. Probudil se pry v cizim byte, v posteli, a ne sam. Na hrudi mel prilepeny papir s vysvetlenim, kde je a jak se tam dostal, a ze v lednici ma kdyz tak nejaky jidlo. V 10 uz byl v praci, protoze tam FAKT musel. Holt normalni finska sauna…

Olympiada zitra, KONECNE!