Some new beginnings
Last weeks - or better months passed once again in amazing pace and some changes or better: new beginnings appeared during this time.
First of all my master thesis is on its way since the first measurements started already in late February (that's probably the main reason for the long break without any post in this blog). When I wrote the last post I had really no idea that the development is going to be that fast and I don't get any time to breathe deeply.
However, at the same time (4 weeks ago) I started to put some quality kilometers to my training log. With a short set-back last week - due to the thesis stress and lacking recovery - I hope I am on the way to an injury-free season with the first major competition (finnish championships half-marathon) in late April. The first serious fast sessions of this year (e.g. 4x2000m indoor in 6:40min) gave me quite some motivation; of course I can feel the work-outs for 1 or 2 days (=at least 1 day too long) afterwards but I was surprised to keep the pace during the whole sessions.
With the spring coming to Finland I will go back from the street to the forest for most running sessions again - now that the cross-country skiiers are mostly bagging their skis. I can summarise that the winter was really short (only around 2 months) with some icy weeks (under -20°C) but anyway it was a real winter with quite a lot of snow, just the way I like it.
Also I got some great news from good old Germany - thanks to Katja + Lars (my brother and his girl), who visited me in the middle of February.
Stay tuned for news and some changes on my site (like e.g. video, weather, new design I already changed)