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2011 Helsinki City Run

Saturday, May 7, 2011

My fourth half-marathon. Not quite a personal best, and my excuse is that the course is a bit up-down hilly and has a lot of turns that slows you down. Otherwise a solid run with no major problems. A lot warmer than last year, so I ran in shorts and T-shirt. I could put in [...]

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Jakob halvmaraton 1:50:37

Friday, July 23, 2010

This week the plan was to do the last 20+ km run before the Helsinki marathon, which is in three weeks on 14 Aug 2010. But since I was in the region and there was a race, I did the Jakob half-marathon instead. Results and info at http://jakob-marathon.net/ This is a small event with 4-500 [...]

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Forssa half-marathon

Sunday, June 13, 2010

I was a bit too far back in the start, and had to criss-cross among slower starters for at least the first 3 km. A strong side/aft wind made the first few kilometers easy downwind 'sailing', and luckily the route took a more protected less windy road after the turn at 10 km. After around [...]

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2:12:56 Helsinki City Run

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Despite forecasts of rain during the week the weather cooperated nicely and we only got wet after 18 km or so. At about 14 km my legs started to feel heavy, and after the last gatorade+water station at 17 km I started walking all the uphills. I finished in 6345th place (yay!) out of 13100 [...]

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