This night I did one of the best training runs of the whole summer. A 1.40 effort, something like 25K with increasing speed. Started at around 4.20 \/km and the last hour went definitely under 4.00 \/ km.<\/p>\n
The most remarkable thing happened however in Espoo central park at 22.00: the lights went suddenly out! I was really pissed off as I was in the middle of a 4K course and had still something like 10 minutes to go in a fast-paced session. Ten years ago, back in Riihim\u00e4ki, they ran lights on all night long in places like Riutta, some 5K out of town…<\/p>\n
Last friday I did another fast-paced 12K (between 4.00 and 3.40 \/ km). That run didn’t go too well. It was also plagued by a toilet-stopover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This night I did one of the best training runs of the whole summer. A 1.40 effort, something like 25K with increasing speed. Started at around 4.20 \/km and the last hour went definitely under 4.00 \/ km. The most remarkable thing happened however in Espoo central park at 22.00: the lights went suddenly out! … Continue reading “Lights out, but a great run”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}