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TnT's Workout Blog

"Are you guys runners? You look like runners.
They are my favorite kind of people."
 - Christy Shimp
@ Thu 29/11/2007
Exercise BodyPump
Time 60:00
Comments The ordinary workout for all major muscle groups: back, chest, biceps, triceps, thighs, and abs.
@ Mon 26/11/2007
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 8.79K
Time 48:49
Comments Ave 145, +0C, sunny. I did not go to my office today, so I had to cancel the BodyPump session (or rather move it to Thursday). Unlike yesterday, the weather today is gorgeous, so I went running again. I ran two 3k loops in 18:00 and 17:30.
@ Sun 25/11/2007
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola -Paloheinä
Distance 13.08K
Time 1:16:16
Comments Ave 137, max 151, +3C, gray and rainy. It is windy, too. Here we have a saying that "the weather is like a bride". Today's must be like Frankenstein's bride. Still, there were surprisingly many joggers in the park, and fewer Nordic walkers than in beautiful days.
@ Sat 24/11/2007
Exercise Irish dance
Time 2:00:00
Comments Today there were four of us in the advanced level class. We started a slipjig routine in soft shoes. I started to forget things as we progressed in the routine, which is pretty fast and challenging, anyway. I must rehearse it during this coming week. In the intermediate class we did the lead-around and the side step again. I don't seem to get the rhythm in the lead-around from my head to my feet. Oh boy! We worked some more on the hornpipe routine we started last week. Hornpipe is probably the most beautiful Irish dance rhythm, but so sad, too. At least the rhythm is easy to capture from music, but very hard to produce with feet.
@ Sun 18/11/2007
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 5.94K
Time 36:06
Comments Ave 146, +5C, foggy. Not our day. Slippery and icy slush made running tough.
@ Sat 17/11/2007
Exercise Irish dance
Time 60:00
Comments The first class was cancelled since only two of us showed up. Bummer! And then we had a new teacher for the second class, whose style varies slightly from the previous ones'. We did again the lead-around and the side-step. In hard shoes we did some hornpipe: a simple routine but the rhythm is quite challenging.
@ Fri 16/11/2007
Exercise Run (Tei)
Course Paloheinä
Distance 10.34K
Time 1:01:15
Comments Ave 145, max 168, +1.5C, sunny. A little slippery. Besides I had to stop several times to re-tie the shoelaces. I ran over the top of the Paloheinä hill, which presumably adds a bit to the distance since I had to take shorter steps.
@ Thu 15/11/2007
Exercise Run (Tomi)
Course Paloheinä
Distance 10K
Time 59:33
Comments -5C, cloudy. Comfy and amiable run. Tomi skipped climbing the hill.
@ Mon 12/11/2007
Exercise BodyPump
Time 60:00
Comments Heavier weights this time and it payed off; at least I am not totally dead.
@ Sun 11/11/2007
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola - Haaga
Distance 5.96K
Time 33:21
Comments Ave 135, max 148, +3C, cloudy. We postponed and postponed the running until late afternoon, since the day looked so bleak. Eventually, we were encouraged to get out --- mostly by getting hungry, and cooking is always fun.
@ Sat 10/11/2007
Exercise Irish dance
Time 2:00:00
Comments Two fun hours and a lot of dancing. We started with shoft shoes and butterfly jumps, and then continued the routine (jig?) we started two weeks ago. We also continued the hard shoe routine from last time, which is nice since I have a chance to catch on. Even if we'll have another instructor next week, we'll continue working on these. We started the other class with treble drills to jig and reel, and practised some clicks, and then switched to soft shoes and worked on the lead-around and side-step.
@ Thu 08/11/2007
Exercise Core
Time 30:00
Comments After a long, frustrating, and useless project meeting this core session was pure fun. Planks were hard, though.
@ Sun 04/11/2007
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola - Paloheinä
Distance 9.13K
Time 50:26
Comments Ave 143, +1C, sunny. Absolutely beautiful! The landscape is powdered by a thin layer of white snow, and the sky is bright blue. Unfortunately, our cell phone is out of power, so we can't take any pictures. The run is surprisingly nice, given that we were in a party last night mixing quite a bit of different drinks. That actually was our first real party since we left Bloomington.
@ Sat 03/11/2007
Comments Today's Irish dance class was cancelled because of the All Saints Day. I checked earlier this semester that the Independence day is the only day besides the Christamas holidays that there are no classes. Probably, the studio just added the information on their website two days ago (last update 11/1), since our instructor last week did not say anything, nor did the email reply I got when inquiring about the teacher change mention anything about cancelled classes.

Bummer! Especially annoying, since I had to leave REALLY early because of the downgraded train schedule (once every 30 minutes!) and the weather started get nasty already in the morning. Now we have all that wet snow coming down that does not last, since it is so warm.
@ Thu 01/11/2007
Exercise BodyPump
Time 60:00
Comments I used light weights --- could have used heavier --- but still it added up so that I don't have much energy left for the core session.
Exercise Core
Time 30:00
Comments Tomi played indoor soccer earlier today, and continued this afternoon with this core muscle session.