Arctic training

With less than three weeks left until North Cornwall Ultra, I am using the time here in Kiruna to work on my aerobic base by doing longer low heart-rate workouts. Today, I went a bit further south and explored the forest trails above the lake “Ala Lombolo” where I found myself in deep snow for three kilometres and thrown back to past winter ordeals.

Back home, the inside of my winter running jacket made me smile and think about the psychogeography of these mountains and the connection that I have come to feel to the long Atlantic coast, be it Trondheim, Ireland or the Canaries.