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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading “Enter Espoo Arena”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}