Burpee Challenge

Motivire Burpee Challenge starts Aug 1st. ('Lepo' = 'Rest')
I'm going to participate best to my ability.  My work weeks might make it a bit challenging as I might not be able to follow their training plan. I'll burpee to the best of my abilities!!

Planning 2016

I'm one of those people who live one day at a time.
I concentrate on TODAY.
That doesn't mean I don't look ahead and make plans for the future.
I'm already looking at and making plans for 2016.
I have no idea if the plans will come true.
Planning and signing up for running events in the future keeps me out of mischief :)

Like I've told you before I've signed up for the Edinburgh Marathon at the end of May 2016.
Warm up for that event will be an action-packed holiday in April-May in Salzburg, Austria:
The Sound of Music, Mozart, hiking, bicycling, half marathon at Salzburg Marathon .

Booking (registration for the event + hotel. Maybe even flights?) for Disneyland Paris Half Marathon in September 2016 opens in early October 2015.
I'm booking. I want to run a half marathon in a Princess Elsa tutu in Paris a few months before I turn 45.

Today it's raining.
I'll try to get outdoors for a run if the rain would calm down just a little bit, it's pouring down as I'm typing. I don't mind a light summer rain. It's just not fun to run outdoors when it's pouring down.
We'll see how today turns out.

Uphills!!

Saturday was one of the sunniest and warmest days of this summer.

So I went uphill training to the Hirvensalo skiing center.

It's on a nice jogging distance from where I live.

I managed up the steepest part of the hill twice. On my second time uphill I encountered a snake. The poisonous kind. He was just lying there enjoying the sun and there came I, red-faced hugfing and puffing up the hill. We both got scared of each other I think. The snake went somewhere else to sunbathe. I continued up the rest of the hill fast as h*ll, I took a road down, and went home.

I'm not uphill training at Hirvensalo ski center anymore. Brilliant place for uphill workouts, don't get me wrong. I just don't want to encounter poisonous snakes. And I had left the allergy meds at home. I was alone. I would have been in a lot of trouble had something gone wrong.

I learned an important lesson yesterday.

I won't leave the house without my allergy meds and I'll avoid places/areas where there might be snakes especially when I'm working out by myself.

Safety first.