skiersthoughts.com » skate http://blog.skiersthoughts.com Notes from skiing trips and other random thoughts Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:44:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Skiing and skating http://blog.skiersthoughts.com/2009/01/skiing-and-skating/ http://blog.skiersthoughts.com/2009/01/skiing-and-skating/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:46:40 +0000 Sami Uskela http://blog.skiersthoughts.com/?p=207 Despite of the slight rain, there was still snow left in Helsinki, so we went for cross country skiing to Keskuspuisto. 9 km of skiing on slightly too soft track took sligtly over 1 hour (see sportstracker). It’s nice to get on the skiis on just 5 min walk from the home :) Hopefully, some snow is left also when we are back from Zermatt.

After the skiing we went to see the closing exhibition gala of European figure skating championchips at Hatwall Arena. I have never seen top class figure skating live and I have to admit that TV does not reveal the full speed and agility of the athletes performing on ice. All the performances were astounishing! My congratulations to Laura and Susanna for fantastic medals!

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Some delay on bloging, but anyway …

On Epiphany (6 Jan 09) we got another great opportunity for skating on top of natural ice. This time went to Lake Hiidenvesi for a good 14 km round (route details from Sports Tracker).

The ice was again perfect – I’ve never experienced such a smooth surface even in any indoor arenas. And the sunset offered some exceptional views at the end of the day.

Sauna, beer, and pea soup was really nice final touch for the day. Thanks Janne & Pia!

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Fishing holes
Originally uploaded by suskela

This time the timing was perfect for sea to get ice cover in front of Helsinki: I managed to get skates sharpened on Friday and – as I thought – the there was enough frost over the weekend so that Today there was solid smooth ice on the Helsinki sea bays.

We went for quick 1 hour (9 km) ice skating trip around Otaniemi (see SportsTracker log). The ice was just perfect for skating and the sunshine made the views also worth of seeing. Hopefully the weather stays cold so that the ice will not get ruined too soon…

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