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Recently I’ve been swimming more than earlier (too cold winter for skiing). Currently personal best results are non-stop 3.8km in 105 minutes and 2300 meters in 60 minutes.

Triathlon consists of 3.8km swimming, 180km biking and 42.195km running. Swimming has always been a trouble for me but during the last weeks I’ve realized I can swim the required length. So now my goal for next summer is to pass the famous triathlon competition.

Unfortunately I’m not able to run (legs hurt if) so I probably have to walk the last part and therefore it will take about 20 hours to finish the whole thing. But at least that leaves room to improve later.

Before the summer I need to swim more, get my bike prepared and find some company but even without any of those I think I would try it.

For Finnish readers I wrote down something in Puluprojects page: Triathlon.

I’ve used Polar M22 for about ten years as heart rate monitor but a month ago it got broken somehow and just displays rates from 20 to 50 which is not possible for sure. I’m not interested to fix it (too expensive) so I need to buy a new one. And because I need a GPS too I think I will purchase Garmin Forerunner 305 which has both features. I’ve read multiple reviews and seems like it’s quite an easy choice eventhough it’s quite massive when only used as a heart rate monitor. I’m not 100% sure of buying yet but maybe 90%. It costs 350e so I must think very carefully.

Finally I bought a new mobile phone: Nokia 5140i. The old 7110 didn’t work very well anymore but crashed once in a hour.

The new one cost 138e which was quite important criterion, I don’t have too much money at the moment. In addition I think I’m not willing to irc by phone so that also decreased the requirements. Nokia 5140i should be a little bit more resistant for water and hits which is a good thing when doing sport etc. It has a camera, compass, flashlight, thermometer and what-so-ever but all those are quite useless for me. After all everything I need is just the calling feature.

Pari edellistä viikkoa on ollut aika epäaktiivisia. Olen tehnyt pakolliset kouluhommat (tänään meni tentti ok) ja hieman liikuntaa, mutta muuten lähinnä jumittanut vain kotona. Pakkanen on myös hieman häirinnyt hiihtoa. Tänään uin pituusennätyksen eli 3km jeejee. Huomenna ajattelin aamusta lähteä hiihtämään ja iltapäivällä leipoa jotain. Pokerivideoita ja -kirjoja olen hieman vilkuillut, mutta ei se kyllä oikeesti kiinnosta. Pientä taantumaa kyllä elo tällä hetkellä: ei hirveetä kiinnostusta oikein mihinkään. Vaan sellasta se aina välissä on.

Haluaisin ostaa uuden puhelimen (nykyinen on aika huonossa hapessa), kakkulat ja Garminin Forerunner 305:n (syke- ja GPS-mittari). Mutta pitää nyt vähän toppuutella osteluvimmaa.

Menis nukkumaan, örö.

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- nukahdin kämpän lattialle ja heräsin kahden tunnin päästä
- kiireellä Stypidin kanssa Tuiraan demiittiin
- humalaisen talutus kotia
- muutama tunti ilakointia
- joku söi mun muffinssit :(
- kotia joskus kolmen jälkeen toinen silmä matkalla jo nukkuen