where the air is fresher…

February 24, 2010

After a tough car journey from my home town Zwickau to Jyväskylä, Finland greeted me with best winter conditions of -15°C.
Some facts and st6ories of my journey:
-started in Zwickau Sunday at 17.00
-couldn’t sleep on the way to Stockholm because the car got cold after 20minutes
-saw some fatal icy roads in Denmark/Sweden and several cars next to it, also some traffic jams because of the crashes
-arrived in Stockholm Monday at 17.30
-got a temperature shock in the Swedish capital (from +7°C in Zwickau to -16°C)
-took the ferry Stockholm-Turku (departure: Mon. 20.00 arrival: Tue. 7.30)
-didn’t book a cabin in the ferry, so I had to sleep on the floor next to the noisy kids
-almost fell asleep in the car on the last 300km from Turku to Jyväskylä
-arrived in Jyväskylä Tuesday 11.30
-first building I entered in Jyväskylä: Liikunta Sports faculty / treadmill in the gym where I ran 30minutes easy with reaaaaalllly sore legs

-total time of travel: fourty-two (42)
-total kilometers of travel by car: twothousand-fifty (2.050)
-total hours slept during the trip: approx. 5-6

Pretty rough trip but still it only took me couple of hours to fall in love with this place again. Do I really want to / have to leave this place?

Today a first good training run with my good old mate Miika – the guy that has a 5 seconds better marathon-BP Just impossible to believe how good you can run in winter conditions with lot of snow when there is a good winter service. Last days and weeks in Germany have just been ugly.