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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
@ Sat 31/05/2008
Exercise Irish dance
Time 2:00:00
Comments Lotta subbed Nadia in our last classes of the Spring. In the advanced class we learned a three-hand ceili. It was fun! There were not enough students in the second class, so officially we did not have a class, but Jenny taught me St. Patrick's Day, another traditional Irish set dance. It was fun, too!
@ Wed 28/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola wood chip trail
Distance 6.20K
Time 32:06
Comments Ave 139, max 157, +16C, sunny. We are blessed with a wonderful weather for a third week or so now. It could be warmer, though. However, for running the temperature is fine.
@ Tue 27/05/2008
Exercise BodyPump
Time 60:00
Comments Last week of Spring season, and second but last session with the current program #65. The next one #66 has a lot of push-ups, I heard today. I took the picture on the right on my way to campus today. By the end of the Summer this area will be grown up to the height of an average adult, and the trail will be very slim.
@ Sun 25/05/2008
Exercise Bicycling
Route Haltiala - Helsingin Pitäjän Kirkonkylä - Kuninkaankartano
Distance 34.08K
Time 2:13'11
Comments +14C, sunny but a cool N wind. We skipped lunch and made a short bicycle ride, visiting two nice cafeterias on our way for coffee and quiche. The first stop was at Cafe Laurentius by The Church of St. Lawrence (you may remember the place from our last year's trip). The second stop was at Kuninkaankartano (The King's Manor) by an old file factory.
@ Sat 24/05/2008
Exercise Irish dance
Time Class + dress rehearsal + two shows
Comments The big day started with the class in the morning. Then I had about an hour to go home, take a shower, dress up and go to The Alexander Theater, which used to be Helsinki's Opera House before the Finnish National Opera moved to the new building.

Our dress rehearsal was supposed to be at 2pm, but we started an hour late. The two shows started at 4pm and 7pm, and both ran for two and a half hours including intermission. There were 32 numbers in the first show and 34 in the second one. I practically spent eight hours in my Irish shoes. Boy, I was tired when home at 10:30pm. Tomi took this single picture, although any kind of photographing or video taping was strictly forbidden (I had no idea!).
@ Thu 22/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 5.75K
Time 33:31
Comments Ave 141, max 157, +15C, sunny, windy. As a recovery for the morning's telephone interview, I went for a short run. Today I ran on a shofter surface, a woodchip trail. It is much hillier than the ordinary dirt trail.
@ Wed 21/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 8.36K
Time 43:42
Comments Ave 140, max 155, +15C, sunny. Back in business: my first run in two weeks. My shins did not exactly love it, but it was bearable. The weather is just gorgeous.
@ Tue 20/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 14K
Time 1:32:00
Comments +13C, sunny. Tomi ran four 3K laps in marathon race pace, which is 19 minutes per lap. Tei had a third leg massage this morning. Hopefully, the shins allow a little bit of running tomorrow.
@ Mon 19/05/2008
Exercise BodyPump
Time 60:00
Comments Tomi joined me to this session. We have not had a chance to workout together for a long time. This was one of the last times with the program #65. Our instructor promised some new workouts next week from the new program #66. I saw a doctor this morning for the shin splints. She subscribed some pain medicine and gel, but did not suggest total abstination from exercise. I take this for an encouragement, as soon as the pain goes away.
@ Sat 17/05/2008
Exercise Run (Tomi)
Course Pitkäkoski - Haltiala - Paloheinä
Distance ~15K
Time 1:52:25
Comments Ave 133, +10C, chilly wind. The speed surprised the runner himself: he measured something like 8 minutes per kilometer.
Exercise Irish dance
Time 2:00:00
Comments Lotta subbed Nädia. In the advanced class we rehearsed the soft shoe reel AGAIN, or rather just the first two steps of it. Fortunately, we did go over the show routine a couple of times, too. The intermediate class we spent exclusively rehearsing Blackbird and Heady Reel for the show. The show will be next Saturday aty 4pm and 7pm, and we do have classes in the morning, and then the premiere in the afternoon.
@ Fri 16/05/2008
Exercise Stretching (Tei)
Comments Another different stretching session: the warmup was rather like African dance lesson.
Exercise Run (Tomi)
Course Pirkkola
Distance 5K
Time 34:07
Comments +7C, mostly couldy. Tomi ran one 3K lap in 18:35.
@ Thu 15/05/2008
Exercise BodyPump
Time 60:00
Comments Instead interval and core sessions, I attended the same instructor's BodyPump session. Otherwise I have been pretty passive this week. My shins keep me away from running.
@ Wed 14/05/2008
Comments For the first time for ever we dined out. We had dinner at the restaurant Grotesk, and afterwards tasted some Slovenian wines at the Foxy Winehouse. Unfortunately, my cell phone camera does not capture the ambience of these places, or the charm of my companion for that matter.
@ Tue 13/05/2008
Exercise Soccer
Comments Outdoor soccer (or football) season kicks in. Tomi was playing for an hour or so.
@ Sun 11/05/2008
Exercise Bicycling
Route Route 2000: Luukki - Pirttijärvi
Distance 54.50K
Time 4:15'18
Comments Off the beaten path. We make another attempt to ride the trail to Korpilampi and Serena (the last one was on March 30 last year). No mud this time, but someone's gotten a weird idea that an off-road bicycle trail should be like sand dune. We saw a lot of loose sand, gravel, and rocky trails with tree roots squirming around. My mountain biking skills could not quite manage the terrain. Anyway, we had fun, and it was a gorgeous sunny day. I am very happy with my bike, too.
@ Sun 11/05/2008
@ Sat 10/05/2008
Exercise Irish dance
Time 2:00:00
Comments We mostly rehearsed the Spring show numbers. The intermediate routine still needs to be put together, but I have basically decided not to do it. If I will, there is going be scheduling problems, since I have to change the costume back and forth. Furthermore, I rather concentrate in a single presentation and do it well instead of managing two so and so.
@ Thu 08/05/2008
Exercise Run (Tomi)
Course Paloheinä
Distance 10K
Time 60'
Comments +15C, partly cloudy.
Exercise Interval 30 & Core 30
Comments My shins did not like the interval session at all. Tomi joined me to the core session. He rode his bike to Kumpula campus. Earlier today he bicycled to the bikeshop to get his and my pedals changed. Our new bikes are almost ready to go. We still need to get new bar ends.
@ Wed 07/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 7.5K
Time 44:49
Comments Ave 141, +11C, cloudy. Not so nice weather today, cloudy and windy.
@ Tue 06/05/2008
Exercise BodyPump
Comments I used a little heavier weights for the chest, which was almost detrimental for the triceps exercise: I could barely hold the bar up.
@ Mon 05/05/2008
Exercise Stretching
Time 60'
Comments Relaxing as always. I need to get me a sweater, since I always feel chilly after the session.

I found these tulips when I was walking to the train station from the campus. The funny thing is that the piece of land they are growing on is not cultivated nor developed, so I just wonder how on earth they ended up there, three pretty flowers.
@ Sun 04/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Maunula
Distance 6.83K
Time 43:34
Comments Ave 129, max 146, +19C, sunny, mild breeze. There is a huge anvil-shaped cloud north-west from here. Let us see if we get some rain and thunder this afternoon.
Exercise Bicycling
Route Tapiola
Distance 22K
Time 1:20'47
Comments We rode to Tapiola's sport complex to watch our soccer WNT to play Iceland. The game ended 1-1, as Finland tied the game in stoppage time. The game attracted an attendance of about 1600, most of the fans being 10-year old soccer girls from Southern Finland, since they had had a soccer camp in the arena this weekend. There were some Icelandic fans, too. The weather was most wonderful. No rain so far, but thunder is approaching.
@ Sat 03/05/2008
Exercise Irish dance
Time 2:00:00
Comments In the advanced class we started with some A-jumps. we rehearsed the third step to the reel, and finished the class with jig steps to the show choreogrpahy. In the intermediate class we started a new soft shoe reel, and practised Blackbird and the reel steps. This time everything went much nicer than last. I am still not use if I will learn the steps adequately.
Exercise Run
Comments Tomi ran two 3K laps in Pirkkola, both in about 18 minutes. It is still very warm and sunny.
@ Fri 02/05/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pirkkola
Distance 4.5K
Time 29:58
Comments Ave 143, max 157, +21C, sunny. I don't believe the distances anymore. The same route has measured 6K before. The pedometer should be calibrated correctly now, since I checked it on a 800-meter track last week. But 6K sounds more right. Anyway, I ran one 3K lap in 17 minutes. I should also start reminding myself that daily temperatures begin to be too much for a midday run. I have to find my inner early bird.

Tomi swam 1.5K in 35 minutes this morning.
@ Thu 01/05/2008
Comments Happy May Day! It was cloudy in the morning but soon the sun came out, and it wasn't until we had prepared and packed our May Day picnic delicacies and a bottle of champagne, and reached a nice spot in the nearby park that the sun was gone again. Anyway, we enjoyed the roast beef wrap rolls and strawberry crostini with a good wine and company.
@ Thu 01/05/2008