Rowing update
March
Distance: 91.3 km (cumulative 161.7 km)
Average speed: 11.98 km/h - slower than in February, but the pace is much more maintainable, witness the extra 20 km I rowed
Distance left to Kinsale: 2948.4 km
Distance left to Sweden: 228.9 km
Current location: At the end of the month, I was just 1.5km short of the end of the motorway in Turku. I'm irritated with myself, but I just could not get myself that extra distance to make the milestone. After this evening's row, I'm now through the city and heading for the ferry port at Naantali.
Conclusion: great improvement from last month, still room to do more
Milestones
So, I hit the 100km mark since my last update, I reduced the distance left to under 3000km, and now I have completed the first of the (many) long stretches on the journey. I'm glad I didn't find it too unmotivating to have no real landmarks to pass during the trip, as soon I will be facing the cross-water trip to to Kapellskår in Sweden, 213km of it, and then I will be spending the rest of the year on Swedish motorways.
Apart from rowing, I've not had much to say. Glorious victory in the rugby aside. I'm vaguely annoyed at work, for uninteresting reasons; I've got a bit addicted to an online game so I'm not reading here as often.
Next week I'm off to France for Easter, my first time out of Finland since June last year. I really need the holiday.
Distance: 91.3 km (cumulative 161.7 km)
Average speed: 11.98 km/h - slower than in February, but the pace is much more maintainable, witness the extra 20 km I rowed
Distance left to Kinsale: 2948.4 km
Distance left to Sweden: 228.9 km
Current location: At the end of the month, I was just 1.5km short of the end of the motorway in Turku. I'm irritated with myself, but I just could not get myself that extra distance to make the milestone. After this evening's row, I'm now through the city and heading for the ferry port at Naantali.
Conclusion: great improvement from last month, still room to do more
Milestones
So, I hit the 100km mark since my last update, I reduced the distance left to under 3000km, and now I have completed the first of the (many) long stretches on the journey. I'm glad I didn't find it too unmotivating to have no real landmarks to pass during the trip, as soon I will be facing the cross-water trip to to Kapellskår in Sweden, 213km of it, and then I will be spending the rest of the year on Swedish motorways.
Apart from rowing, I've not had much to say. Glorious victory in the rugby aside. I'm vaguely annoyed at work, for uninteresting reasons; I've got a bit addicted to an online game so I'm not reading here as often.
Next week I'm off to France for Easter, my first time out of Finland since June last year. I really need the holiday.