• Summer is exploding here and I have some friends at home. Zootaca vivipara, also known earlier as Lacerta vivipara.
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    Summer is exploding here and I have some friends at home. Zootaca vivipara, also known earlier as Lacerta vivipara.
  • I can see some beautiful things on my commuting routes. This old bridge is not exactly on my route but it's on the side of it and I see it pretty much every workday, if I'm not riding on some other, alternative route. I took this photo on Wednesday and I think this bridge deserves more photos in different light and daytime.
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    I can see some beautiful things on my commuting routes. This old bridge is not exactly on my route but it's on the side of it and I see it pretty much every workday, if I'm not riding on some other, alternative route. I took this photo on Wednesday and I think this bridge deserves more photos in different light and daytime.
  • It's been an extraordinary year, really. After the accident and injury, then unprecedented ITI and the corona crisis. I've been slammed with 50+ hour work weeks with 18+ hour bike commuting. It's interesting when I think I have found my limits in Alaska but now I'm finding them right here, right now. I took a couple of days off from bike commuting and this evening enjoyed a bit of my 'backyard gravel'. I will continue writing my blog for ITI race report and also some short stories on Instagram when I have time. And, I also have some exciting riding ideas for the summer and fall. 🙂
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    It's been an extraordinary year, really. After the accident and injury, then unprecedented ITI and the corona crisis. I've been slammed with 50+ hour work weeks with 18+ hour bike commuting. It's interesting when I think I have found my limits in Alaska but now I'm finding them right here, right now. I took a couple of days off from bike commuting and this evening enjoyed a bit of my 'backyard gravel'. I will continue writing my blog for ITI race report and also some short stories on Instagram when I have time. And, I also have some exciting riding ideas for the summer and fall. 🙂
  • Juttelin Mikael Heermanin kanssa Alaskan reissustani 11.4. Podcast on nyt kuunneltavissa Radio Play Suomessa, linkki biossani! #Repost @radioplaysuomi (@get_repost) ・・・ Polkuporinoissa ylimääräinen jakso! Alaska kutsui taas ja pääsemme kuulemaan Toni Lundin matkakertomusta, joka värittyy yllätyksellisillä haasteilla kelin ja koronaepidemian johdosta. Mikä ihme saa miehen palaamaan viikkoja kestävään Alaskan pyörätapahtumaan? @toniklund @ultrastanleypark @sakurafinland #polkuporinat #iditarod2020
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    Juttelin Mikael Heermanin kanssa Alaskan reissustani 11.4. Podcast on nyt kuunneltavissa Radio Play Suomessa, linkki biossani! #Repost @radioplaysuomi (@get_repost) ・・・ Polkuporinoissa ylimääräinen jakso! Alaska kutsui taas ja pääsemme kuulemaan Toni Lundin matkakertomusta, joka värittyy yllätyksellisillä haasteilla kelin ja koronaepidemian johdosta. Mikä ihme saa miehen palaamaan viikkoja kestävään Alaskan pyörätapahtumaan? @toniklund @ultrastanleypark @sakurafinland #polkuporinat #iditarod2020
  • ITI 2020. After leaving Nikolai I had fairly eventful evening, night and the next day. Longer story will be told in the blog later but in short, I had more problems with my breathing and bivying was rough. The next day was awfully slow to McGrath as I had to take short breaks and the trail was slow from the snowfall of the previous day. But the weather and views were great. . . . @itialaska @bikeshopfi @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @shimanomtb @rideshimano @nextiebikes @porcelainrocket @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @lumicycleuk @timecycling @blaband_outdoormeal @konabikes #iditarodtrailinvitational #iditarodtrail #ITI2020 #winterultra #endurance #expedition #adventure #Alaska #thelastfrontier #sleepdeprivation #bivy #bivying #bivouac #bikepushing #onceinalifetime #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries #pushingtheenvelope
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    ITI 2020. After leaving Nikolai I had fairly eventful evening, night and the next day. Longer story will be told in the blog later but in short, I had more problems with my breathing and bivying was rough. The next day was awfully slow to McGrath as I had to take short breaks and the trail was slow from the snowfall of the previous day. But the weather and views were great. . . . @itialaska @bikeshopfi @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @shimanomtb @rideshimano @nextiebikes @porcelainrocket @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @lumicycleuk @timecycling @blaband_outdoormeal @konabikes #iditarodtrailinvitational #iditarodtrail #ITI2020 #winterultra #endurance #expedition #adventure #Alaska #thelastfrontier #sleepdeprivation #bivy #bivying #bivouac #bikepushing #onceinalifetime #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries #pushingtheenvelope
  • Ensimmäinen osa ITI 2020 kisaraportistani on valmis blogissa, linkki biossa! ⬇️ Olin tässä vaiheessa jo niin väsynyt että yritin pysyä hereillä taluttamalla mutta silti minun piti pysähdellä välillä ja laskin pääni ohjaustankoa vasten. ⬇️ First part of my ITI 2020 race report is ready in Finnish in my blog, link in bio! Don't try to use any translator for it, it will probably be a horrible mess. Hoping to do English version later but the photos should be worth seeing. . . . @itialaska @bikeshopfi @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @shimanomtb @rideshimano @nextiebikes @porcelainrocket @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @lumicycleuk @timecycling @blaband_outdoormeal @konabikes #iditarodtrailinvitational #iditarodtrail #ITI2020 #winterultra #endurance #expedition #adventure #Alaska #thelastfrontier #sleepdeprivation #bivy #bivying #bivouac #bikepushing #onceinalifetime #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries #pushingtheenvelope
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    Ensimmäinen osa ITI 2020 kisaraportistani on valmis blogissa, linkki biossa! ⬇️ Olin tässä vaiheessa jo niin väsynyt että yritin pysyä hereillä taluttamalla mutta silti minun piti pysähdellä välillä ja laskin pääni ohjaustankoa vasten. ⬇️ First part of my ITI 2020 race report is ready in Finnish in my blog, link in bio! Don't try to use any translator for it, it will probably be a horrible mess. Hoping to do English version later but the photos should be worth seeing. . . . @itialaska @bikeshopfi @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @shimanomtb @rideshimano @nextiebikes @porcelainrocket @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @lumicycleuk @timecycling @blaband_outdoormeal @konabikes #iditarodtrailinvitational #iditarodtrail #ITI2020 #winterultra #endurance #expedition #adventure #Alaska #thelastfrontier #sleepdeprivation #bivy #bivying #bivouac #bikepushing #onceinalifetime #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries #pushingtheenvelope
  • ITI 2020. After Rainy Pass I reached Rohn checkpoint in the early evening. There were plenty of 'firsts' for me this year. A few miles before Rohn I saw wolf tracks and they were HUGE! 🐾 So, didn't want to stop to take photos of them, I just wanted to get to Rohn and eat the famous bratwursts. It was cold, about -25°C and getting colder. My break was only ~5 hours in Rohn and I decided to continue midnight, meaning another first, Farewell Burn in the night. It's really long stretch to Nikolai so it was clear that I needed to bivy at some point. I did that in the early morning. By then it was also very cold, -33°C and when I continued riding after one hour sleep, I started to have problems with my breathing. The trail was pretty good and I wanted to ride faster but I couldn't. Near Sullivan Creek Jim McDonough caught me and we rode together for a while. Shortly, three snowmachines passed us and destroyed the trail. Still over 20 miles to Nikolai, it was lots of pushing and very slow riding. Also, my mini pump broke partially in the cold but I still managed to use it. The last 15 miles to Nikolai were really rough and in the end, maybe about 8 miles, I was extremely sleep deprived. I had to take several short breaks and lay against the handlebars of my bike. A few miles before Nikolai I hallucinated and saw a small cabin on the side of the trail. I don't recall that I've been in so rough shape ever before! 😵 . . . @itialaska @bikeshopfi @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @shimanomtb @rideshimano @nextiebikes @porcelainrocket @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @lumicycleuk @timecycling #iditarodtrailinvitational #iditarodtrail #ITI2020 #winterultra #endurance #expedition #adventure #Alaska #thelastfrontier #sleepdeprivation #bivy #bivying #bivouac #bikepushing #onceinalifetime #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries #pushingtheenvelope
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    ITI 2020. After Rainy Pass I reached Rohn checkpoint in the early evening. There were plenty of 'firsts' for me this year. A few miles before Rohn I saw wolf tracks and they were HUGE! 🐾 So, didn't want to stop to take photos of them, I just wanted to get to Rohn and eat the famous bratwursts. It was cold, about -25°C and getting colder. My break was only ~5 hours in Rohn and I decided to continue midnight, meaning another first, Farewell Burn in the night. It's really long stretch to Nikolai so it was clear that I needed to bivy at some point. I did that in the early morning. By then it was also very cold, -33°C and when I continued riding after one hour sleep, I started to have problems with my breathing. The trail was pretty good and I wanted to ride faster but I couldn't. Near Sullivan Creek Jim McDonough caught me and we rode together for a while. Shortly, three snowmachines passed us and destroyed the trail. Still over 20 miles to Nikolai, it was lots of pushing and very slow riding. Also, my mini pump broke partially in the cold but I still managed to use it. The last 15 miles to Nikolai were really rough and in the end, maybe about 8 miles, I was extremely sleep deprived. I had to take several short breaks and lay against the handlebars of my bike. A few miles before Nikolai I hallucinated and saw a small cabin on the side of the trail. I don't recall that I've been in so rough shape ever before! 😵 . . . @itialaska @bikeshopfi @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @shimanomtb @rideshimano @nextiebikes @porcelainrocket @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @lumicycleuk @timecycling #iditarodtrailinvitational #iditarodtrail #ITI2020 #winterultra #endurance #expedition #adventure #Alaska #thelastfrontier #sleepdeprivation #bivy #bivying #bivouac #bikepushing #onceinalifetime #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries #pushingtheenvelope
  • ITI 2020. Arriving in Puntilla Lake in the evening meant that I would sleep there for the night and start riding towards Rainy Pass in the morning. Also meaning that I would finally see it in daylight. And that exactly happened! The wind was again really strong and dangerous (-40°C/F windchill) all the way to the Ptarmigan Valley meaning that primary travelling mode was pushing and no room for mistakes. But it calmed down in the valley and it was completely calm in Rainy Pass ☀️. Instagram and smartphone screens don't work well with 16:9 landscape photos so I managed to crop a few of them to 1:1 square that seem to be working here fairly well. I was so so happy to travel the whole stretch from Puntilla to Rohn in daylight! It was mindblowing experience. And also Dalzell Gorge was great too. . . . @itialaska #iditarodtrailinvitational #ITI2020 #iditarodtrail #winterultra #wintersurvival #adventure #bikepacking #expedition #fatbike #fatbikes #toughestrace #thelastfrontier #Alaska #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries @bikeshopfi @konacanada @konabikes @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @rideshimano @shimanomtb @scienceinsports @porcelainrocket @nextiebikes @lumicycleuk @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @timecycling #blåband #blaband
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    ITI 2020. Arriving in Puntilla Lake in the evening meant that I would sleep there for the night and start riding towards Rainy Pass in the morning. Also meaning that I would finally see it in daylight. And that exactly happened! The wind was again really strong and dangerous (-40°C/F windchill) all the way to the Ptarmigan Valley meaning that primary travelling mode was pushing and no room for mistakes. But it calmed down in the valley and it was completely calm in Rainy Pass ☀️. Instagram and smartphone screens don't work well with 16:9 landscape photos so I managed to crop a few of them to 1:1 square that seem to be working here fairly well. I was so so happy to travel the whole stretch from Puntilla to Rohn in daylight! It was mindblowing experience. And also Dalzell Gorge was great too. . . . @itialaska #iditarodtrailinvitational #ITI2020 #iditarodtrail #winterultra #wintersurvival #adventure #bikepacking #expedition #fatbike #fatbikes #toughestrace #thelastfrontier #Alaska #nolimits #pushingtheboundaries @bikeshopfi @konacanada @konabikes @enduraofficial @tomsportagency @rideshimano @shimanomtb @scienceinsports @porcelainrocket @nextiebikes @lumicycleuk @keliclothing @smithoptics @optinako @timecycling #blåband #blaband