Less than 1km from our front door is Espoo Arena, a full 400m indoor track open year-around. Free entrance, open 1pm to 9 pm weekadays, also saturdays and sundays. Track is new mondo, quite hard but also quick. At least so far no damage to my legs. Now that it’s that 10cm wet-snow stuff all around and +1-3 degrees, I’m so happy to have this option. – Ok, the distance is still a bit fuzzy. My running colleague Jari Vanhanen said the second track is as close to 400m as it gets. Espoo Arena has 4 tracks and the inner track is definitely under 400m.
Two nights ago the first test run produced a 1000m for 2.57. Tonight I did a 5x1000m with about 2 mins/200m walk/easy jog in between. Series went 3.14, 3.09, 3.12, 3.12 and 3.00 with the final lap at 69 secs. I’m pretty much ok with that – provided that the second tracks really is 400m. – Otherwise I’ve been doing about the same 200 km / month schedule as before. Last saturday I did an especially nice 15-20K run inside Espoo forests.