Marathon school ended. It was a fairly simple deal though, just eight weekly meetings with seminars and some excersices. But it was fun to run together in a group with very different people on new routes. The level of the participants varied alot and I was surprised to be among the best runners there. That's hardly a merit but it felt like the training I'd done for the past year had paid off so it'll feel better to practise harder now. The trainer gave us all a personal training program and I just started to follow it this week. It seems pretty good, some days feel like total slacking and some days will almost kill you... Doesn't get boring atleast. The trainer was a cool guy, he was originally from France but spoke finnish pretty fluently. I guess he knew alot about all kinds of sports but the coolest thing was that he'd actually been to China for a while to study kung-fu.

They were talking about changing the marathon school to something more like a club and I hope they do... It'd be great to have a group to train with.

I found some really nice forest paths near my place in the winter. They were pretty crazy to run back then, cause there was either like 20cm of snow or puddles of mud instead of paths. I only ran when there was snow though and it was kind of nice when the old spruces were covered in snow and the forest was moody and totally dark otherwise. Weird feeling to run like hell in a forest that seems to be completely asleep. Now it's completely different, I even found some new routes from nearby fields and it's so great to run there in the long hay with the sun shining and anemones blooming in patches of trees. It's hard to keep my eyes on the path when there's so much life going on everywhere.

Well, two months left to train for Helsinki City Marathon now and it seems like it'll be alot of fun. I'll be runner number 2127